Mimi Goese

Mimi Goese has been pursuing divergent aspects of the arts since 1984. Trained as a dancer, she has worked in post modern dance, performance art, theater, film and music. Musical pursuits have included the seminal art band, Hugh Largo, the band Mimi, as well as collaborations with Moby, Julia Hayward, A. Leroy, John Moran, Hahn Rowe, Porl Thompson (of The Cure), and Hector Zazou. In recent years she has collaborated with composer, performer, and inventor of the mutantrumpet Ben Neill. Neill and Goese’s first collaboration came in 2010 when, along with playwright Warren Leight, they were commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music to create the theatrical work Persephone (starring Julia Stiles) for their Next Wave Festival. The duo later recorded and released the music on their 2011 album Songs for Persephone. More recently Neill and Goese have been working in collaboration with chaos mathematician Ralph Abraham to create new songs that combine the interplay of Goese’s captivating vocals and the electro-acoustic explorations of Neill’s self-designed mutantrumpetwith sounds created from fractal equations.