Join us Sunday, September 28, between the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, at 2 pm, for the second annual Days of Intonement, an ecumenically-spiritual, seasonal container for music, sound, and reflection, inspired by (but straying far from) Jewish traditions of gathering, (a)toning, and releasing what we no longer need.
This year’s iteration features workshops and performances from klezmer-techno fusion artist Chaia, as well as by Adam Tinkle, Associate Professor of Media and Film and Director of the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS), who organized the event.
All are welcome; no prior knowledge of or experience with religious traditions is needed. This program is co-sponsored by the Jacob Perlow Series and the Tang.
About the Artists:
Chaia is an artist who brings old-world Yiddish music into conversation with the sounds of techno. Blending the earthy textures of klezmer and archival Yiddish voices with hypnotic electronic grooves, her sound is both ancestral and electric-folklore for the nightclub. Chaia has performed internationally at Pop Montreal, KlezMore Vienna, Shtetl Berlin, Sonic Territories, and more. In June 2025, Chaia released her debut album, “Yiddish Electronic.”
Adam Tinkle is Associate Professor of Media and Film, and Director of the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS), and a multidisciplinary artist focused on sound, video, collaborations, and the deployment of technologies of sensation and spectacle in negotiation with bodies and infrastructures. After studies in music with avant-garde legends Anthony Braxton, Alvin Lucier, Anthony Davis, and Pauline Oliveros, Adam’s soundworks have taken disparate forms, from sound sculptures to song cycles to music-theater to the “SoundMind” series of sonic mindfulness workshops he led on the Tang’s mezzanine between 2016 and 2019. His “visual music” practice, which reimagines expressive uses for antique TV equipment, yields glimmering, painterly abstractions and immersive spaces, as in the intimate and vulnerable explorations of screenlight and screenlife featured in his 2022 solo exhibition at the Arts Center of the Capital Region. More recently, Adam’s work has appeared in the form of “Farillon,” a monumental abstract chiming timepiece selected for the inaugural Troy Glow festival, a series of interactive video baths most recently presented at Club SPA Spa and the Flaherty Film Seminar, and new album releases of electroacoutsic experimental improvisations with his duo Sun Dogs and his trio Seven Count.
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