Eden Rayz, "In Honor of Vanity and Masochism" - CanvaSounds Live at Berklee

Eden Rayz performs "In Honor of Vanity and Masochism" with CanvaSounds Live in the loft at Berklee College of Music.

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CanvaSounds is the product of several innovative, young female composers from across the globe who needed a place to share their perceptions and ideas about multimedia composition. Their ongoing series—starting with concerts, then recordings, and now video documentation—provides audiences with a place to experience and discuss emerging classical music in an immersive, open-minded environment.

Various multimedia, including live video processing, poetry, 2D visual art, and collaborative sound design, are used to bring each composer’s distinct perspective to the stylistically diverse dialect of new music.


Composed in the visual post-minimalistic approach of photographer Francesca Woodman, Eden Rayz departs from her dense, harmonic aesthetic and employs Steven Katz's flying pizzicato technique for cello. Rayz's composition is based on an untitledphotograph in Woodman's Angel Series, where the subject hangs from her hands in a doorway, with her feet dangling motionless above the tiled floor, and a quote from the photographer's journal:

"I am so vain and I am so masochistic - how can they coexist?"

"In Honor of Vanity and Masochism" (E. Rayz)

Sam Crowe: sax
Yoojin Young: violin I
Bebe Kim: violin A
Evan Raczynski: viola
Eden Rayz: cello
Brittany Karlson: bass
Rachel Sumner: conductor
Rickie Lee Kroell: dancer

Produced by CanvaSounds
Eden Rayz: producer

Recorded live in the Loft
Simon Katz: recording engineer, mixing engineer


Filmed by 21summit Productions
Joe Barnard: videographer, editor
Ben Meyers: videographer
Renee Signore: assistant

Mastered by M Works Studios
Jonathan Wyner: engineer

Lihi Haruvi: audience
Amit May Cohen: audience
Bahar Royaee: audience
Edward Neal Belt III: audience
Lee Moretti: audience
Martin Friedel: audience
Parham Haghighi: audience
Yoojin Young: audience
Maria-Fernanda Mendez: audience
Martin Friedel: audience
Tutti Espi: audience