Electronic Music Workshop & Performance
She’s Speaking! is an immersive clarinet and interactive media performance that reanimates archival recordings of women’s voices, blending live music and technology to amplify silenced perspectives.
As part of the project, a free public workshop and demonstration will introduce participants to the creative process behind the piece, showing how acoustic instruments and electronic tools can interact in live performance.
The project culminates in a public performance that invites audiences to experience a technology-driven form of storytelling that amplifies women’s voices through sound.
This event is made possible (in part) with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.
Experiment with Ableton Live - FREE! (ages 10-18)
WHEN: Saturday, May 16th, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
WHERE: Stone Circle Theatre*, 59-14 70th Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385
CONTACT: Medina at medinaclarinet@gmail.com
REGISTRATION LINK: https://forms.gle/m1yyNV6qAuKaoVhG7
Solo 360 is presenting a FREE INTERACTIVE MUSIC WORKSHOP where you’ll explore how technology can transform live music!
See how computers can change sound in real time—using effects like echo (delay) and responding to how loud or soft music is played. Then, dive into Ableton Live and learn how artists trigger beats, loops, and sounds during performances.
Best of all, you’ll get hands-on experience experimenting with these tools yourself. The workshop also includes a live excerpt from She’s Speaking! by Ellen Fishman, performed by Medina, showing how music and technology come together in performance.
We kindly ask that a parent or guardian remain on-site with any child under 12yrs for the duration of the workshop.
*PLEASE NOTE: Stone Circle Theatre is not 100% accessible - there are stairs.
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WORKSHOP INFO
This event will introduce participants to the clarinet and interactive technology piece featured in the concert, showing how acoustic and electronic elements combine to create new forms of musical expression.
The session includes performance and discussion, demonstrations on how the clarinet’s sound can be extended, reshaped, and transformed through live digital processing.
Following the demonstration, participants will take part in a guided, hands-on activity where they can experiment with the same tools and hear the immediate results of their interactions.
SOLO 360
Our collaboration (Solo 360) brings together clarinetist Medina and composer-technologist Ellen Fishman, two artists committed to reshaping classical music by centering the creative voices and lived experiences of women. As a collaborative team, our mission is to elevate women composers while expanding artistic possibilities through technology, interdisciplinary experimentation, and community-driven performance practices.
Both Ellen and Medina are experienced educators and artists dedicated to sharing the creative potential of music and technology with young people.
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Ellen Fishman is a Brooklyn-based composer whose work integrates music, technology, and interdisciplinary collaboration to create immersive experiences that engage audiences through live performance.
Her compositions have been performed at venues including the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Mise en Place, Westminster Choir College, the Suzanne Roberts Theater, The Performance Garage, the New Works Forum at Opera America, and the ASU Kerr Cultural Center. Her StringFlo—a composition written for a live yoga session—was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition and in Strings Magazine (March/April 2024). Her string quartet Lark Dances was recorded by the Fairmount String Quartet in Fall 2022.
Fishman’s groundbreaking interactive opera Marie Begins received the Opera America Discovery Grant for Female Composers, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. The online pilot, featuring Grammy nominee Lauren Worsham, allows audiences to influence a non-linear storyline through a custom-designed app. It premiered online in 2020 with the Westminster Choir College Opera Theatre.
She is currently exploring spatial audio as a compositional medium. Her piece Shards of Memory for piano and spatial audio premiered at the DiMenna Center in 2024, performed by pianist Marilyn Nonken. Fishman is also developing an immersive opera with longtime collaborator and librettist Julia Curcio.
Meet Medina
Medina’s artistic work focuses on amplifying the female voice by curating performances of both historical and living women composers. Her series Evolutions: A Timeline of Women Composers, created in partnership with New York Women Composers, reintroduces neglected repertoire while championing contemporary creators. Her 2025 season includes an East Coast recital tour that foregrounds women’s voices.
Medina has performed in New York’s most prestigious halls ranging from Avery Fisher to Carnegie Hall. Medina’s playing has been described as: “…dynamic and exotic with the virtuosic writing pulled off flawlessly.” by the Examiner, “ethereal” by Sound Word Sight, and has been recognized for her “…extraordinary breath control” by the Classical Voice of North Carolina. Medina has collaborated with Chamber Music Silicon Valley’s Primal Reboot Summer Festival, Chamber Music Society of New Paltz, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Capital City Concerts of Vermont and is the recipient of the City Corps Grant with composer Rachel Fogarty. Medina’s expertise has brought her to both coasts of the United States working with musicians as a concert clinician and teaching artist. Her mission as an educator is to guide her students in discovering their musical voice. Medina has served as faculty in the woodwind department at Alliance University School of Music in Manhattan and has presented entrepreneurship to musicians at West Virginia University, the University of Missouri School of Music, and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro College of Visual and Performing Arts.