Collaborations
Uniting visionaries to create lasting impact through collaboration and creative expressions.
Laments Project
Produces music and video and presents community workshops & regional events that support emotional connectivity and relationship to the environment. Laurel Premo will compose, produce, record, and present music that will be a part of Northwoods Music Collaborative concerts and workshops in 2025-2026. Laurel's "Laments" project was recorded in the winter of 2023-2024, and is now in the stages of mixing and mastering the audio and creating the various design and writing to accompany the sounds when they are published. The work has been shaped by the traditions she participated in or encountered such as Karelian lament (itkuvirsi) and Irish keening (caoineadh). These are traditions of a professional wailer, a singer who sings and cries at rites of transition such as wakes, marriage, or other departures from home, someone who helps lead the community into their own experience of emotion. In addition, she is working on a continuation to her 2021 album ‘Golden Loam’ featuring finger style guitar and voice with original compositions alongside traditional arrangements, with a theme of connection to the natural world.
Story Forest Network
A new storytelling platform with a mission to help calm our collective nervous systems through sound and story. These stories are inspired by the memory of Chris’ mother, because of the bond he shared with her and that he shares with his own children - around a peaceful transition to sleep and rest. We hope that the compositions are a useful tool to assist in loosening your nervous systems and unwinding some of that anxious energy we tend to build up during the day.
Third Tone Project
The Third Tone Project explores the healing potential of sound through specially tuned acoustic binaural tones designed to synchronize brain and body rhythms. Rooted in research and experimentation, the project fosters human connection and well-being through immersive sonic experiences.
Energetic Literacy Project
Northwoods Music Collaborative is a part of program development and programming as a fiscal sponsor for the Energetic Literacy Project. Their mission is to support adults and children to work consciously with their nervous system and their bodies for greater resiliency through music therapy programs, practices, and teachings based on ancient wisdom, modern science, creative practice, and somatic experiences. Evan Premo collaborates with ELP in Vermont providing music for therapeutic movement practices.
“We want to explore the creative process, what it means to create as an artist, and where inspiration comes from.”
– EVAN PREMO