Keyna Wilkins - Leading an entirely improvised session in the New York Music Scene and creating an album from it

NOMINATION: Excellence in Experimental Practice

NOMINATION: Excellence in Experimental Practice

For works, people or events that interrogate, extend, or challenge standard artistic practice within the Australian repertoire

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Nominee

Keyna Wilkins

Nominated Project/Activity

Leading an entirely improvised session in the New York Music Scene and creating an album from it

Nominator Statement
In April 2023 Keyna led a free improvisation session in New York with local New York poets and musicians Ron Wasserman, David Belmont, Michael Kevin Walsh, David Kuhn, SoSola . It was recorded as one long improvisation session and this album is the result (it has been broken up into smaller sections for convenience). The style of improvising is at times nostalgic and other times entirely free and impulsive. It is a unique work. It received positive reviews from UK and USA music magazines.

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