MIC~ART Music is a voice-inspired new music production company founded by Nora McCarthy for her various projects. She is also the creator and founder of New Music Works Experimental Music Lab, a performance and education space. McCarthy is an active and established creative vocal musician, improviser, composer, poet, lyricist, actor, educator, and author.            

MIC~ART Music is committed to the exploration of the vocal instrument as an interdisciplinary art form in and of itself, the creation and production of new musical works within the jazz, avant-garde, free, experimental, and Afro-Caribbean music idioms, including the poets and is dedicated to the perpetuation and forward progression of improvised music as a valued, culturally diverse, integral art form that promotes, influences and reflects social change.

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  “...Her shaping of pitch often foregoes the fluid note-bending of the jazz singer in favor of the full press of a sculptor’s touch against viscous clay." Ramsey Ameen, violinist with Cecil Taylor Unit, mathematician, scholar.

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  "...Nora’s voice is a brand new one for me… fresh and full of the vigor that only well-performed improvised spoken-word can bring…… as you listen to pieces like the 8:15 “Frequency ONE“, with it’s languid guitar from Dom and subtle reeds from Ras, it will all be clear – you’re in the presence of a vocal master… some beautiful echoing tones from Nora’s vocal fit very nicely into the overall piece as well… very impressive. (yes, Nora’s voice is definitely an instrument), and the trio is so “together”, you’ll think it’s scripted – FANTASTIC! I give this fine album [Manna For Thought 2017] a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, with an 'EQ' (energy quotient) rating of 4.99." 

Rotcod Zzaj

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“...It’s delightful to hear music that plays so freely with the known and the unknown elements of jazz." Florence Wetzel ALL ABOUT JAZZ MAGAZINE, NY

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www.noramccarthy.com