Nina Shekhar - Part 7

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Episode 112: Nina Shekhar - Part 7
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In this week’s episode, we talk to Nina Shekhar about multimedia and collaboration in her pieces “Redact” and “Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner." If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Nina Shekhar, check her out here: https://www.ninashekhar.com/. This episode was originally recorded in December 2023.
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Intro music: “Trifolium” by Gabriela Ortiz, performed by E4TT (Ilana Blumberg, violin; Abigail Monroe, cello; Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Below the Surface: Music by Women Composers,” January 29, 2022
Outro music: “Lake Turkana” by Marcus Norris, performed by E4TT (Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Alchemy,” October 15, 2021
Transcription courtesy of Otter.ai.
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1. Nina Shekhar - Part 7 (00:00:00)

2. Your piece, "Redact", attempts to capture the way the human brain reacts to trauma. And you can skip this question if you want, but was there a specific event or person or something that inspired you to write it to go in that direction? How did the... (00:00:43)

3. Have you tried in other of your pieces? You said, you're working with multimedia? So have you tried this pairing of imagery with the music where it's embedded in the kind of construction and exploration? (00:05:44)