Jaz(mine) Jendersee, also known as jazmycelium, is an LA-based experimental vocalist and performer. Partial to a wide range of styles and techniques, they love the challenge of caring for another’s music. They are especially drawn to contemporary work that incorporates extended techniques, unique timbres, and plays with silence and surprise.
Jaz’s own music practice centers embodiment and curiosity. They learn through performance, poetically researching the earth and its histories and sharing spiritual wonder. They are drawn to story and meaning, and also to subverting the expectations of narrative form. Multimedia and interdisciplinary collaboration are essential to their process, providing fertile ground for this kind of exploration. They’ve been praised as an immersive performer, inviting audiences into shared experiences with spiritual potency and presence. They value performance art as an opportunity to offer someone an experience they’ve never had before.
Their most recent premiere, Descent, debuted at their CalArts graduation recital: an original work for voice and electronics, performed across a 30-yard collaboratively painted canvas of abstract natural scenes. The piece involved improvisation on an epic poem imagining their past lives and their entanglement with historical ecologies.