On View: February 28
The Kitchen at Westbeth (163B Bank Street, 4th Floor Loft)
Time:
1:00 – 4:00 PM
The Kitchen will host an afternoon songwriting workshop led by artist duo, DAYS (Ned Riseley and Ethan Philbrick). Songwriting is often framed as either an expression of individual compositional genius, or an optimized musical puzzle engineered by a large group of experts. But what about collaboration and inspiration from more ambiguous sources? What if inspiration for a song came from something simple or more random, like found text in a book, an article, an old note to self, or a spam text message? Unoriginal Songwriting is a chance to play creatively with unexpected inspirations and associations by putting found texts through different processes to create songs. All experience levels are welcome. Bring whatever instrument you write with (could just be your voice!).
These workshops are limited to participants in high school and college (or ages 14-22).
BIOS
DAYS is Ethan Philbrick and Ned Riseley, a band, a theatrical project, and a couple that lives in an apartment in Brooklyn. They bring cello and voice together to create mystical songs and uncanny theater. Their latest EP, "Do I," was produced by Kyp Malone.
Ethan Philbrick is a cellist, artist, and writer. He is currently curator-in-residence at The Poetry Project and a member of the curatorial collective for Offerings. In 2023, Philbrick published Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence with Fordham University Press. In addition to participating in a variety of collaborative performance projects and being part of the musical-theatrical project DAYS, Philbrick is currently making interdisciplinary works that cluster around three different conceptual threads: 1. experiments in music and theory on the nature of instruments and the politics of instrumentality; 2. compositions for vocal collectivities that investigate the contested history of anticapitalist critique; and 3. collaborative research projects that inquire into alternative relationships between music and dance. He has taught at Pratt Institute, Muhlenberg College, New York University, Wesleyan College, Yale University, Sarah Lawrence College, and The New School.
Ned Riseley is an actor, writer, and musician. He recently performed in Fashion in the Exponential Festival and Everything Must Go, at the Chocolate Factory. Other theater credits include Six Degrees of Separation (Broadway) and Poster Boy (Williamstown). He is half of the comedy duo Friends Who Folk, with Rachel Wenitsky, which has performed in countless venues and basements and even a stranger’s wedding. They have two albums, Comedy is Wrong and Friends Who Folk. As part of the band DAYS, Ned writes plays and recorded an E.P., Do I, in 2024, produced by Kyp Malone.
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