Projects
Solo Project: West Virginia, My Home
This project grew out of Annick's interest in combining storytelling, Appalachian-inspired compositions, and old ballads. It has grown into a project that has commissioned compositions from exciting new composers such as Annika Socolofsky, Jacob Sandridge, Nathan Thatcher, Matthew Browne, Ben Morris, Nadine Dyskant-Miller, Christine Delphine Hedden, and Clay Gonzalez. More compositions (and recordings) are in the works!
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Digital Duet CommissionThis piece "ReSet" - by Maleek Washington and Annick Odom - was supported by Joe’s Pub micro-commissions, offered to duos of artists/performers who had never worked together before.
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Electro-acoustic Duo with Tiziano TeodoriIn 2019, Tiziano and Annick started working together on a project incorporating folk music, storytelling, and electronics along with self-composed works. The livestream for the UK-based concert series Blue Rinse is still up on YouTube.
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Linen of Words
Recordings and concerts with the new music collective, Linen of Words (LoW), are coming soon thanks to funding from Fonds Podiumkunsten. The main members of the collective are Leah Plave on cello, Julie Hasfjord on voice, and Annick Odom on clarinet and double bass. LoW is interested in storytelling and collaborations with composers. In 2020, they performed pieces by Evan Premo and Rob Jones as well as pieces Annick had written. They have also workshopped pieces with composers Renán Zelada and Leo Lehtinen, and have been planning a collaboration with Japanese calligrapher Lanka Abe. Harpist Michela Amici has joined the group for several projects as well.
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Sweet Joe Pye |
An old-time string band based in Den Haag, Sweet Joe Pye shares a mix of ballads and fiddle tunes hailing from the Appalachian mountains as well as original compositions. Sweet Joe Pye is a plant which grows all around the Appalachian region and reminds us of home.
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Other projects
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SQUEE! Collective
Active between 2016 and 2019, the SQUEE! Collective consisted of three musicians: Rob Jones (saxophone, piano), James Alexandropoulos - McEwan (electric guitar), and Annick Odom (clarinet, double bass). A flexible, “ambient chamber glitch group”, SQUEE! is a collaboration between three composer/performers who met while studying at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. The ensemble strived to create a musical world that lies between the diverse backgrounds of all the players, in performing pieces that are composed collectively, which include notated, aleatoric and improvised elements.