Heather Mease
Heather Mease is an independent musician and artist studying musical nostalgia, a grad student teaching in the music department at UVA, and a staff member at The Bridge PAI. Though she missed performing at the Southern and scheduling shows at the Bridge, Heather enjoyed teaching over zoom. Covid provided an opportunity to experiment and “work with my pieces for over a year changing little things.” She found “something beneficial about having to sit in your own bath water for a year.” Despite her difficulty finding things to hold onto when there was no deadline, she was propelled forward by her motto; “even if my work is super weird, who cares? Who cares not as in ‘who cares about that thing’ but who cares if you have to take a risk during this time.”
“Foil”
This piece is part of Heather’s experimental work during the pandemic where she left records outdoors for an entire year, carved into them with knives and then re-replayed the record. “Foil” is a collaboration with Jordan Perry and an exploration into time and sampling that Heather described as “me performing Jordan” to create music that is a mixture of “the familiar and the unfamiliar, comfort and discomfort.”