My Music
BEHIND THE MUSIC
Hi All,
Welcome! My name is Pyeng Threadgill. I’m so happy you’re here! I want to invite you to explore the music and writing on my site to gain a deeper insight into how I approach music and art making.
I’ve been singing, writing and performing since the age of 3 and I have always wanted to make impactful and inspiring music. Growing up in a creatively rich environment, has moved me to create collections of material generated from a specific theme and or concept. For example: composing songs based on magical realistic short stories, a song cycle looking at climate change and the experience of race and identity as expressed through hair. What influences me most is the message I am seeking to convey and the community that I am creating it with. From there melodies, artwork, albums, installations and writing emerge.
Lost & Found: Finding The Power In Your Voice
A New Book by Pyeng Threadgill
Growing up in the 1980s, in the heart of New York City's downtown music and art scene became fertile ground for seeds of creativity, doubt, and eventual empowerment for Pyeng Threadgill—as expressed through Lost & Found: Finding the Power in Your Voice, a collection of personal essays, poetry, and prose. Threadgill offers the reader various entryways to witness the magnificence and fragility of our voices and of our lives. As a performing professional vocalist, songwriter, recording artist, and bandleader, she began Lost & Found during the pandemic—born from many years of teaching voice, the Alexander Technique, and practicing meditation and meditative movement.
From motherhood to travel, from ancestry to the body—evolving from a passionate performer to injured performer, from voice student to voice and movement teacher—Lost & Found examines the visceral and ephemeral experiences of the voice, for the body and for oneself in the world, as both a spiritual and political act.
What Readers Are Saying
“First off, I love the way Pyeng can turn anything into a song! After a weeklong retreat with friends in the woods, listening to her greeting “Mr. Hedgehog” with her own sweet song is a memory I will cherish. In Lost and Found, Pyeng challenges readers to find their own sweet songs and to discover that perhaps finding one’s voice has more to do with changing one’s inner monologue and less with what one says aloud. “ —Alicia H. Hines, MASK Consortium
"If you are curious how artists live & create or if you are an artist looking for inspiration & community, this book is for you!" —Hjørdis Linn-Blanford, Theater Consigliere/Mariner
“Pyeng’s “Lost & Found: Finding the Power in your Voice” is a beautifully structured book that spoke to me about listening and hearing, with fresh and honest prose and poetry about herself, her family, friends, ancestors and mentors.” —Valborg Fletre Linn, Artist/Designer
“As a black woman, artist, and thinker, Pyeng’s writings make me feel seen. The imagery and storytelling is a sweet deep dive into the twists and turns of becoming. Each page invites a recipe for finding your own superpowers with curiosity and tapping into the divine spiritual connection of sound in the body. A beautiful read and a compelling journey”. —Tendayi Kuumba, Dancer, Vocalist, Performer, & Teaching Artist
Pyeng Threadgill
is an American vocalist, composer, writer, video artist and voice and movement teacher. As a vocalist/performer she creates what she calls New Porch Music based on the traditions of Black American Folk, Soul, Jazz and improvisational music. Pyeng uses these Porch Sessions to create connected conversations whereby audiences may reflect on their own life stories and identities for healing and empowerment.
BIRTHING NEW PORCH MUSIC
This process has evolved into what I now call New Porch Music: a culmination of Folk, Soul, Blues, Jazz/improvisational music and spoken word, based in Black American traditions. New Porch Music is performed or presented in site specific settings such as porches, museums, stoops, public parks, private homes, galleries and more to engage people through all of their senses. I aspire to create an experience that allows the audience to reflect on their own stories and identities. Through storytelling, music and installations, I wish to plant seeds for healing and empowerment. I have witnessed that audiences and performers alike have transformative experiences during these events, generating deeper connections and conversation.
“I loved Jacaranda City...I am a Youth Leader at my church
and see the struggles that my girls go through, trying to fit into
what society and their peers think they should be, so thank you!”
Mazie Kienemund, Youth Leader
Contact
For bookings to present at your festival, museum,
gallery, center or event, please email here.