Pythia Is a Black Girl's Name

by Li/ Lisa E. Harris

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Pythia is a Black Girl’s Name is the name of the graphic score and also the name of a ritual improvisational performance that will happen in the space on the New Moon(s). Visitors are invited to write their thoughts and wishes on a bay leaf and leave it in the HOP to be utilized in live performance. Pythia is the name and title given to the original Oracle at Delphi, in service to Apollo, Greek God of the Sun. Every priestess following in that lineage and receiving visions at the sacred location of Delphi, was also referred to as Pythia. Pythia in modern day Greek, means “baby girl”; it also still retains the translation of prophetess. In ancient Greek lettering, the spelling of Pythia looks similar to the word NUBIA.

“Pythia is a Black Girl’s Name” is a piece I composed to big up the Black Woman, to say the names of our sisters missing and/or murdered by the police in the USA, to reclaim the beauty and creativity of our naming of ourselves and our daughters. To set correctly again, the energy that is spent to call us out of our names, by imagining and sounding new names we have never even heard of before. Here we are Still because we say So.

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Improvisationally realized when following/reading the graphic score.

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released February 17, 2019
Composed and Performed by Lisa E. Harris

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Li/ Lisa E. Harris Houston, Texas

Li, is an independent and interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, creative soprano, performer, composer, improvisor, writer, educator and researcher from Houston Texas. She is the founder of production company, Studio Enertia.
Li is the 2021 recipient of the Dorothea Tanning Award for Music/ Sound, awarded by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a 2021 Texas Vignette Artist Grant winner. ... more

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