Janice Misurell-Mitchell
Janice Misurell-Mitchell, composer, flutist, and vocal artist, teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For twenty-five years she was Co-Artistic Director of Chicago’s CUBE Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, and she is now a member of the 6Degrees Composers. She has taught and performed in the US, Mexico, Europe, Morocco, Israel, Palestine, India, and China. Recently she received commissions from the Chicago Composers Orchestra and the Ear Taxi Festival, and an Artists Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council. Her CDs, Vanishing Points, music for solo, duo, quartet and Uncommon Time, music for flute, voice and percussion, are on the Southport Records label. Other music of hers is available through MMC Recordings, OPUS ONE Recordings, Capstone Records, Arizona University Recordings and meerenaishim.com; her videos After the History, Scat/Rap Counterpoint, Sermon of the Spider and others are available on Youtube.  

Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Resistant Noise (2020), for vocal and instrumental ensemble, and Electronics
The ensemble members in Resistant Noise are all musicians whom I’ve worked with before, and I value their ability to perform in a wide range of music. Included are members of the MAVerick Ensemble, the AACM, and the Music Institute of Chicago, among others. The piece is dedicated to the memories of vocalist, pianist, composer, and cherished member of our 6Degrees composers, Ann Ward; the brilliant baritone who could swing with the best, and still soar in a Handel aria, Saalik Ziyad; and our son, filmmaker, artist and songwriter, Gabriel Mitchell, whose loud whistle honoring my performances still rings in our ears. –Janice Misurell Mitchell