NY SongArts: Musical Storytelling
During the spring of 2021, NY SongArts invited SCL members to participate in Musical Storytelling, a collaborative songwriting workshop designed to emulate the experience of writing to a specific brief. More than 50 members were paired up and tasked with creating a song inspired by a separate chapter of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Over the following weeks, these songwriting teams collaborated on music and lyrics, recording and producing original songs.
On May 18 and 19, 2021, the full group convened for two listening sessions, in which the individual pieces combined in story-order to create a complete musical narrative. The teams introduced their songs before broadcasting their tracks to the others in the workshop.
The SCL is proud to present the resultant works. Enjoy!
Tuesday, May 18 Show
On A Golden Afternoon /
Follow The Rabbit
Further Down the Rabbit Hole
Mustard Up
Larger Than Life
There Goes Bill
Who Are You
Mock Turtle’s Soup
Off With The Head
Alice Says NO!
Ming Cheng:
Who Stole The Tarts
Statement From YT Rabbit
Wednesday, May 19 Show
One Way or Another
On The Other Side
Cats and Dogs
Everybody Wins
Now That I’m Big
There Goes Bill
Who Are You
Pepper In The Goop
Vanessa Theme Ament:
Tea Party Madness
The Card’s Lament
You’re More Than You Are
Join the Dance (The Beat Goes On)
The Mock Turtle’s Soup’s Song
The Trial
Barbara Carole Sickmen:
The Grown-Up Me
Songwriter Websites
Tuesday, May 18 Show
Makena Metz
www.makenametz.com
Zev Burrows
www.zevburrowsmusic.com
Kimberly Hou
www.kimberlyjhou.com
Melissa Axel
www.melissaaxel.com
Jeff Schiller
www.houndogschiller.com
Jonathan Handel
www.jhandel.news
Joel Willson
www.joelwillson.com
Debby Ward
www.thewardgallery.com/index.html
Jeremiah Bornfield
www.jeremiahbornfield.com
Dorian Frankel
www.dorianfrankel.com/music
Shelley Fisher
www.hebrewhillbilly.com
Mark Crawford
www.markcrawfordmusic.com
Carol Weiss
www.carolweissmusic.com
Ming Cheng
www.mingcomposer.com
Benjamin Jaffe
www.instagram.com/binjiminjiffy
Joan Hammel
www.joanhammel.com
Wednesday, May 19 Show
Bonnie Janofsky
www.bonnieruthjanofsky.com
Giana Vogt
www.giana.rocks
Alison Freebairn-Smith
www.soundcloud.com/alison-freebairn-smith
Autumn Maria Reed
www.amreed8.com
Katya Mihailova
www.katyamihailova.com
Caroline Waters
www.carolinewaters.com
Paul d’Amore
www.pauldamoremusic.com
Cooper Baldwin
www.cooperbaldwinmusic.com
Nono Chen
www.nonochenmusic.com
Vanessa Theme Ament
www.vanessathemeament.com
Eiko Jin
www.musik-jin.com
Gabriel Pontón
www.gabrielponton.com
Daniel E. Wakefield
www.danielewakefield.com
Nicole Yazmin
www.nicoleyazmin.com
Matt Aaron Hurewitz
www.soundcloud.com/matthew-hurewitz
Francisco Cuadrado
www.franciscocuadrado.com
Valeri Ortiz
www.valeriortiz.com
Joelle Ferrando
www.joellesahar.com