Odeya Nini: A Solo Voice

Evolving over the last seven years, A Solo Voice, composed and performed by Odeya Nini, is an investigation of resonance, extended vocal techniques, performance, and pure expression, exploring the relationship between mind and body and the various landscapes it can yield. The work is a series of malleable compositions and improvisations that include field recordings and theatrical elements, aiming to dissociate the voice from its traditional attributes and create a new logic of song that is not only heard but seen through movement and action. In a multi-dimensionality that serves to both provoke and soothe in abstract communication, the voice is presented in its spectrum of natures as it travels through cultures, ages, emotions and colors, like photographs, with tender intimacy and bold aberrance.

Odeya Nini is a Los Angeles-based experimental vocalist and contemporary composer. At the locus of her interests are performance practices, gesture, textural harmony, tonal animation, and the illumination of minute sounds, in works spanning chamber music to vocal pieces and collages of musique concrète. Her solo vocal work extends the dimension and expression of the voice and body, creating a sonic and physical panorama of silence to noise and tenderness to grandeur. Odeya has collaborated extensively with dancers, visual artists, filmmakers and theater directors as both a composer and soloist and has worked with and appeared in works by artists and ensembles such as Meredith Monk, Butch Morris, Lucy & Jorge Orta, The Industry, and Wild Up.

Odeya's work has been presented at venues and festivals across the U.S. and internationally, including Resonant Bodies Festival, Banff Centre, The Hammer Museum, The LA Phil, MONA, and Art Basel Miami, from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, Australia, Mongolia, Madagascar, and Vietnam. She leads vocal sound baths, seminars, workshops, and retreats exploring the transformative and healing qualities of embodying the voice.  

Odeya holds a B.F.A. from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and an M.F.A. in composition from California Institute of the Arts.