Tang Museum’s “Days of Intonement” Features Workshop and Performances

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College recently announced the second annual Days of Intonement, a space for music, sound, and reflection on Sunday, Sept. 28 at 2 p.m. The event features a workshop, sound experiences, and a performance situated in the season of the Jewish High Holidays. Open to all, the program expects no prior knowledge of or experience with any religious traditions.

Days of Intonement

• 2 p.m.: Hands-on Kleztronica Workshop: Engage with DJ Chaia’s philosophy and performance practice of cultural sampling and witness Yiddish archives turn into contemporary beats. Kleztronica melds traditional Yiddish music with contemporary electronic genres like house and techno.

• 3:30 p.m.: Intonement Ritual: Inspired by (but straying far from) Jewish traditions of gathering, (a)toning, and releasing what we no longer need, sound artist Adam Tinkle leads a sequence of collective rituals and sound experiences sampled freely from High Holiday liturgy.

• 4:30 p.m.: Kleztronica DJ Set Performance by Chaia: Accordion, vocals, and samples weave together to invite audiences to engage with ritual, intergenerational trauma, and the echoes of ancestral memory.

The program and admission to the Tang are free. The Tang Museum is located on the Skidmore College campus at 815 N. Broadway.