Kate Westfall

Kate Westfall is a poet, musician, and artist in Mansfield, Ohio. 

 

Her involvement in artistic fields includes music and poetry performances, collaborative works with studio artists, painting, digital art, quilting, mobiles, crochet, and sculpture.

Kate Westfall performs "Cloudstep", an original song from her VoKate album, at the Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield, Ohio. All vocals are created and layered live on a Boss RC-50 digital processor.
Video by Bryce Millikin.
Cloudstep by Kate Westfall

Kate Westfall performs as a solo vocalist, layering digital loops to create styles steering from primitive to tribal to pop to lounge. Sometimes aggressive, sometimes soulful, it can be heard that her range of musical travels has begun with a confident footing. The music for Westfall's debut album, "VoKate", was created by layering a series of looping vocal melodies and sound effects, all of which were created organically by her. Rhythms were made through body-actions of the feet, hands, arms, mouth, collarbone, and bracelets. The exception to the organic purity is "Private Scientist" which includes Westfall's keyboard and pencil scratchings among other aural teasings, with assistance from audio technician Eric Barnett.
 Click here to buy the VoKate CD.

Kate Westfall's live performances include live vocal looping and digital rhythms, and occasional hand drums and spoken word. The appearance of digeridoo, washboards, or marimba is not to be unexpected.

VoKate was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Eric Barnett.

Kate’s visual art stems from the ideal of capturing one’s imagination by manifesting it into a physical presence whenever possible. With a background in poetry, her paintings take on an illustrative quality as she often combines her images with language.

Her smaller paintings come from daydreams, fleeting thoughts, and meditations, captured like the waking-person’s rendition of the dream-witness’s testimony.

About Brain Blankets: For artists, all components of life are potential venues for creativity - from one’s manner of speech, to the arrangement of furniture, to one’s daily clothing choices. Finding particular enjoyment in the arena of fashion design, Westfall’s exploration into the traditional craft of crochet quickly steered itself onto the heads around her. Brain Blankets were born – from a need to approach all activities creatively and an inclination toward original adornment.

Westfall’s work can currently be found at: The Mansfield Art Center, Art Works On Main in downtown Mansfield, and The Guild in Marion.

Visit these websites to see more of Westfall’s work.

Brain Blankets: www.myspace.com/brainblankets

music: www.myspace.com/vokatemusica

poetry and art: www.myspace.com/vokate