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How do you turn a hashtag into an opera?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the challenge a 51ÁÔÆæ student faced when she decided to turn #MeToo into a musical production. The 51ÁÔÆæ \u201csuper senior,\u201d working toward her BA in vocal performance and her BFA in composition & technology, goes by Xai Osa, her artist\/performing name.<\/p>\n

Growing up in the Milwaukee area, she was always singing and began composing her own music when she was young, she recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a little songwriter in elementary school \u2026\u00a0 writing really fun songs, drawing lines for the pitch and to try to remember how to sing it. That\u2019s what I wanted to do was be a singer\/songwriter.\u201d<\/p>\n

She became fascinated with Bj\u00f6rk, an Icelandic singer and songwriter who had developed her own experimental style that drew on influences ranging from hip-hop to classical and electronic pop. That led to interest in others who were experimenting musically.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many ways to push the boundaries of music,\u201d Osa said.<\/p>\n

She came to 51ÁÔÆæ because she wanted to stay in Milwaukee, but found more than she expected in the Peck School of the Arts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started with vocal performance degree. Then I found composition and technology courses on campus, and decided I had found my place with all 51ÁÔÆæ had to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she decided to compose an opera, she turned to the themes captured in the #MeToo hashtag.<\/p>\n

She wanted to incorporate perspectives outside of her own, and so began researching both in books and online and talking to people locally about what the hashtag meant to them.<\/p>\n

Working with her mentor, Amanda Schoofs, senior lecturer in music, she wove screenshots of online messages and other social media snippets into fictional characters to create the 25-minute micro-opera, \u201cEcho Ascension: Her Voice is Heard<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The piece was performed live for the first time in mid-March at a dress rehearsal. Then, of course, the pandemic hit and Peck School performances came to a halt.<\/p>\n

Osa is not discouraged, however. She\u2019s continuing to fine-tune and expand the opera because she feels, she said, that the music and words open up a new perspective on what #MeToo\u201d is all about.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about the power of sharing your story and how that affects other people\u2026how that can influence them to make the next step in their healing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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