Petra - Filament (2019)

filament is in part a distillation of petra's (Kristina Warren) years of voice and electronics performance, both solo and with collaborators including Ailís Ni Ríain, Amy Brandon, Kimberly Sutton, Rachel Devorah, and Theresa Wong. Across the 2010s and especially during her PhD work at the University of Virginia, Warren got sick of conventional notions of vocal beauty and listenability, which are gendered and limiting. Now on the eve of a new decade, filament aims to make space for new voices, for listening and empowerment. petra’s scream dissolves into voltage, an old ritual that won’t stop.