"I think of the room as a second instrument. I think of it as an active performer and collaborator."
"It really felt like the sound was coming from myself and my core rather than my fingers. That was just really powerful to experience and I had to go deeper."
Zosha Warpeha, a fiddler from Minnesota, records an album in a historic marble theater in Downtown Brooklyn, designed by McKim, Mead & White. The theater, now an arts venue, features remarkable acoustics due to its high-arched ceilings. Warpeha plays the hardanger d'amore, a violin-like instrument with unique strings. After moving to New York to study jazz violin, she sought a more expansive musical form, leading her to the hardanger fiddle, which resonated deeply with her.
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