Anaïs Maviel is a New York-based composer, artist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and community organizer dedicated to translating spiritual concepts to auditory sensory. She uses sound as medicine and alchemy, and suggests how the body can be a vessel for archetypal expression. She has collaborated with Alarm Will Sound, Meshell Ndegeocello, and William Parker.
Listen to the Rain is Maviel’s eight-movement, cross-cultural composition – or meditation, or a cosmic dance – for string quartet, The Rhythm Method (who reimagines the string quartet in a contemporary, feminist and gender non-binary context, featuring violinists Marina Kifferstein and Leah Asher, violist Carrie Frey, and cellist Meaghan Burke), the West African string instrument n’goni (“harp of the young hunter”, played by Maviel, who also plays on lyra, the Norwegian ancient
