Lis Addison

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Lis Addison performing in San Rafael, California
Background information
Birth nameLis Addison
Born San Francisco, California, U.S.
GenresAmbient, classical crossover, world, new age, and electronic music
Occupation(s)
  • Composer
  • vocalist
  • keyboardist
  • producer
  • environmentalist
  • philanthropist
Instrument(s)Vocalist, keyboards
Years active1985–present
LabelsAll Aglow Music
Website www.lisaddison.com

Lis Addison is a composer, vocalist, keyboardist, producer, environmentalist, and philanthropist. She composes in the ambient, classical crossover, world, new age and electronic music genres. Addison has composed and produced sixteen solo albums, soundtracks for film and dance and has over 10 million streams on Spotify, [1] Apple, [2] and Pandora. [3] Her last four albums have charted in the top 10 of the New Age Charts.

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Addison writes meditative music, African-influenced dance music, and Indian-influenced music. [4]

Addison has been a professor at SAE Expressions Digital Arts College where she taught Music Theory and Environmental Science. [5] She has also taught at the Globe Sound Healing Institute where she taught her Kinetic Voice Program, Music Theory and North Indian Classical Raga Singing. [4]

Early life and education

Addison's father was a doctor, her mother was a ballet dancer and her grandmother a pianist. She began studying dance at age 8, piano at age 10, and writing songs at age 11. [5] Addison went to Mills College, where she earned a BA in “Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Music and the Environment” (an individualized major combining studies in music, history and biology), and an MFA in “Electronic Music and the Recording Media.” [5] [4]

As an undergrad Addison studied piano, voice, and composition with Terry Riley and Lou Harrison, and music theory with Allaudin Matthieu. Collectively, they introduced her to world music. [4]

She was particularly drawn to Riley. This led to her studying north Indian classical Raga singing with Riley's teacher Pandit Pran Nath from India. [4]

While at Mills played in a reggae band in a more traditional singer-songwriter material role. [6]

She returned to Mills as a grad student in electronic music and recording. Addison studied voice, electronics, and rhythm to create electronic atmospheres. [4]

Composition/Electronic Music

The Mills influence undergirds her music in many ways and she developed “a distinctive sound using her voice as an instrument mixed with electronic atmospheres.” [4]

Work at the Globe Sound Healing Institute and Kinetic Voice

Addison cites a road trip in the deserts outside Los Angeles during which she encountered a rattlesnake and experienced a near-miss by lightning as a crucial turning point for her music. And after that trip, Addison began incorporating sound-healing concepts into her music and experimenting with her voice in what she describes as unidiomatic ways. [6]

These concepts informed Addison's work at the Globe Sound Healing Institute in Sausalito. Addison developed a system of “chakra vocalizations” to move energy through the body. She founded the Kinetic Voice program after working with hundreds of women and observing a pattern of collective oppression in the female voice. [7] [8] [6]

Kinetic Voice seeks to give women the freedom to let the emotions of anxiety and anger out by way of letting their voice out.

which she created after observing a pattern of “oppression” in the voices of the women she worked with. [6]

The program introduces students to vocals and movement, so they feel music on a somatic level. [5]

The Trilogy of the program consists of:

Addison's Song of the Tree album (2008) both laid the foundation for her distinct musical style and for KiVo. Chakra Chants, found on the album, consist of non-language specific vocalizations (vocables) that explore the use of vocal vibration to help clear the Chakras and release tension. Following its release, she choreographed specific movements to accompany the vocalizations. [7]

During the COVID pandemic, Addison observed that life was pared down to its simplest elements: less driving, less entertainment, less work and travel, staying closer to home and family. This led her to releasing Elements which features music pared down to its elements (with tracks beginning in five-tone pentatonic scales not seven-tone scales). Addison centered the album on the elements needed for survival - earth, air, fire, and water. [5]

Her album Zadaka was commissioned by a dance technique called the Nia Technique. Zadaka became Nia's "Source." This collaboration led to a tour of more than 50 cities in Australia, Canada, Europe, Israel, Mexico and the US. Performances featured Addison singing her music backed by an Afro beat while the audience participated in Nia Technique inspired dance movement. This would be followed by a workshop. [5]

Philanthropy

Ms. Addison studied environmental science at Mills College and in 2013 created the non-profit Singing Tree Institute, an environmental non-profit that has planted more than 7,000 trees in Kitui, Kenya. [4] Singing Tree plants trees and documents songs and dances of the Kamba community in Kenya. [5]

The plantings are mainly in the rural community of Kangweni, Kenya. Planting days with students from Maviani Primary School, Yanzuu Daystar Academy, St. John’s Church and Syombuku Vocational College end with a celebration of singing and dancing. [9]

Discography

Compilations

Sheet Music

Awards

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