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Eli Berman

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Vocalist, Composer-Producer, Sound Artist
cantorial noise • choral club • folktronica • sound sculpture countertenor-baritone
NYC / PGH

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LITANIES OF LILITH a Yiddish/English electro puppet opera by Eli Berman. Excerpts from the 2026 Object Movement Puppetry Festival at Dixon Place 4/24 & 4/25

Thank you so much for coming to Lilith land and trancing out with our demons!!! We can’t wait for your next visit…Lilith’s eyes are speakers. Her head is made of a giant goat hide (courtesy of @keurdjembe) stretched over pvc, resonating with acoustic feedback from transducers in her pupils and microphones in her wing bones. Also her DELAY PEDAL BOOBS. All sounds come from Lilith’s wearable noise instrument and Eli’s voice.

Written/Composed by Eli Berman with Yiddish translation by Moishe Dolman

Performed by Eli Berman, Jan Leslie Harding, Zlata Godunova, Bonita Oliver, and Abbie from Mars

Built by Eli Berman, Jim Freeman, Jan Leslie Harding, Zlata Godunova, and Bonita Oliver

Lighting design by Ari Kim @with_ari

Live sound by Griffin Koelbel @griffinkoelbel

Photos by Richard Termine @richardtermine

Videos by Karni Dorell @karni9782

Thank you to @centeratwestpark and everyone involved in the Object Movement Puppetry Festival for the support! Thank you to @devotaj_arts for the Lilith class that got me hooked on this story ♥️ and thank you @dixonplace for this amazing space to share Lilith and her babies with NYC. taken in Dixon Place by @_eliberman_

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“My Little Brother” music video out now on YouTube!!! Smash that link in bio 🌊🦀🌱

Written by @sanniest for her incredible multimedia project and album PHOTOPHOBIA. Vocal orchestra sung, composed, and produced by yours truly @_eliberman_

Here’s some pics from the live show in Berlin at the 2022 Pop-Kultur Festival @popkulturberlin • dress by @alexis.mermaid & nose piece by @inaurem__

I got the call from Sanni in Fall 2020 to compose and produce my very first dance track using only samples of our voices. I’m eternally grateful to you and your vision Sanni!

Visual animations by @gabrielmassan, @flashtreatment, @occulted, and @harriet.blend 🙌🏻 taken in Kulturbrauerai by @_eliberman_

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3 years ago

In this special Possum Session @raoul.mcfly traveled to Pittsburgh to film footage for a performance and art installation at Seedtime on the Cumberland. @_eliberman_ and her family, @banjosue & @jeffberman2023 with @blooperboy2000 sitting in on drums, came together to make this special project American Golem. The full session will be playing on loop at WMMT’s new permanent location 253a E Main St in Whitesburg, Ky. Eli’s art and their family photos will be on display in the space. American Golem will perform at 4 pm on Main St. by @_eliberman_

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Yiddish electro puppet opera.

“Khazn Elektrik” is a concert of Khazones-inspired experimental music by Eli Berman featuring Judith Berkson. Following the concert is a kumsitz (khazones improvisation workshop) led by Judith Berkson — come ready to learn the art of traditional cantorial music!

Eli Berman will perform original music in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English. This will include her electronic dance music from the Kleztronica scene as well as solo excerpts from “Litanies of Lilith,” an electro puppet opera written, composed, and performed by Eli Berman with Yiddish translations by Moishe Dolman. Sounds are generated live on stage via voice and wearable electronics in additions to beats made entirely from vocal samples.

Before there is Eve, there is Lilith.

“Litanies of Lilith” depicts her transformation from the first wife of Adam into the primordial mother of demons. She is created from the same earth as Adam and refuses to lie beneath him. She cries the ineffable names of God in order to grow an owl-like head and wings, crossing the Sea of Reeds to flee from Eden. This story is based on a Hebrew/Aramaic fable written in the Alphabet of Ben Sira, a medieval text from ~1000 CE. The title also references Diamanda Galás’ piece for voice and electronics, “Litanies of Satan,” itself drawn from poet Charles Baudelaire.

The Lilith backpack puppet, about 8ft tall, is constructed from PVC pipes, plastic tubing, wood, fabric, and electronics. Lilith’s eyes are battery-powered instruments with embedded speakers. Built from resonant PVC pipes, microphones, transducers, goat skin, and delay pedals, each requires onstage amplification rather than direct connection to a venue sound system. Two microphones in Lilith's wings feed into battery-powered, Teensy delay pedals worn in Berman’s bra, allowing her to manipulate the sounds from Lilith's eyes in real time.

Sunday, August 2nd, doors open 7 PM. Tickets in bio. taken in Der Nister by @_eliberman_

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5 days ago

MONDAY AUGUST 3 AT @airlinerbar

Running a chill Monday night of eclectic noises at the Airliner with @_eliberman_ from NYC, plus @irisipsum @judith__berkson @middayinla . $15 tix plus fees on DICE. Doors 7:00 PM. Music 8:00 PM. 21+. See you there. taken in The Airliner Bar by @_eliberman_

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LA…Lilith is coming for you……links in bio……… All sounds here are live voice and electronics

7/25 & 7/31 at NEO Voice Festival @1stchurchla
8/2 at @dernisterlosangeles
8/3 at @airlinerbar

🎥: @blooperboy2000 & @banjosue taken in Los Angeles, California by @_eliberman_

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Congratulations team on the first screening of FIREBIRD - a gorgeous, funny, poignant, meaningful, folky and contemporary animated art-documentary short, for which we recorded the all-vocal score a year ago!

Led by Vlada Tomova, the vocal trio, featuring Annie Beliveau, Eli Berman and Vlada Tomova, sang a semi-improvised score based on Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Russian folk songs and propaganda music. We are so proud to be part of this production.

The screening was mostly meant for the artists to view the film for the first time. We look forward to opportunities to share it with audiences close and far!

In Parentheses
presents
FIREBIRD

Animation/Documentary
by Irina Patkanian & Marion Schoevaert

Art Photograpry by Maxim Dondyuk
Starring Ksena Samborska & Michael Kaplan
Artist Yevgenia Nayberg
Collages by Elena Kalkova
Cinematography by Gus Ford
Animation by Masha Yukhananov & Jennah Camara
Sound by Anna Carolina Bastos
Music by Vlada Tomova
Recorded at The Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College

Supported by NYSCA & PSC-CUNY
www.inparentheses.org

Firebird screening was presented during the 10th international Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance

#film #collaboration #acappella #folk #firebird taken in Martin E. Segal Theatre Center by @_eliberman_

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2 months ago

LITANIES OF LILITH a Yiddish/English electro puppet opera by Eli Berman. Excerpts from the 2026 Object Movement Puppetry Festival at Dixon Place 4/24 & 4/25

LILITH kvetching in landscape mode 👹 “Kvetching” is the beloved American Yiddish slang word for “complaining,” but the original meaning of the Yiddish word is “stretching”…and when you are giving birth, the word for “push!” is “kvetch zikh!” … “stretch yourself!” … may we all stretch and kvetch onward!

Thank you so much for coming to Lilith land and trancing out with our demons!!! We can’t wait for your next visit…Lilith’s eyes are speakers. Her head is made of a giant goat hide (courtesy of @keurdjembe) stretched over pvc, resonating with acoustic feedback from transducers in her pupils and microphones in her wing bones. Also her DELAY PEDAL BOOBS. All sounds come from Lilith’s wearable noise instrument, the performers’ voices, and The Sea of Reeds drums, which are made of goat hides stretched over cardboard fabric reams as well as salmon leather (courtesy of @_wyntro_ ) stretched over brass pipes. Decorated with palm leaves from my Palm Sunday church service at St Mary the Virgin in Times Square.

Written/Composed by Eli Berman with Yiddish translation by Moishe Dolman

Performed by Eli Berman, Jan Leslie Harding, Zlata Godunova, Bonita Oliver, and Abbie from Mars

Built by Eli Berman, Jim Freeman, Jan Leslie Harding, Zlata Godunova, and Bonita Oliver

Lighting design by Ari Kim @with_ari

Live sound by Griffin Koelbel @griffinkoelbel

Photos by Richard Termine @richardtermine

Videos by Karni Dorell @karni9782

Thank you to @centeratwestpark and everyone involved in the Object Movement Puppetry Festival for the support! Thank you to @devotaj_arts for the Lilith class that got me hooked on this story ♥️ and thank you @dixonplace for this amazing space to share Lilith and her babies with NYC. taken in Dixon Place by @_eliberman_

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Join us this Friday and Saturday for the second weekend and final performances of the annual CWP Object Movement Puppetry Festival!

This weekend’s lineup of puppetry includes “Litanies of Lilith” by @_eliberman_ . A classically trained countertenor and baritone, Eli’s music fuses extended vocal techniques and experimental electronics with Ashkenazi cantorial prayer, Yiddish and Appalachian ballads, and choral traditions.

“Litanies of Lilith” is a puppet opera exploring the Jewish mythology of Lilith, mother of demons. Singing in English and Yiddish, composer-vocalist Eli Berman unleashes her voice through noise instruments made of pipes, tubes, microphones, and speakers all assembled into a wearable backpack puppet and props. This show will be featured for three performances only, be sure to reserve your tickets now!

Visit the link in our bio to reserve tickets! taken in Dixon Place by @_eliberman_

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3 months ago

1 singer. 3 noise instruments. 5 puppeteers. 20 minutes. Countless demon babies…April 24 (7pm) & April 25 (2pm / 7pm) at @dixonplace for the 2026 Object Movement Festival with @centeratwestpark 🎭

LITANIES OF LILITH is a puppet opera exploring the Jewish mythology of Lilith, mother of demons. Singing in English and Yiddish, composer-vocalist Eli Berman unleashes her voice through her vocal feedback pipes: electronic instruments made of pipes, tubes, animal hides, microphones, speakers, and effects. These materials are assembled into musical props along with a wearable, sonic backpack puppet operated by multiple people. Libretto in English by Eli Berman with Yiddish translation by Moishe Dolman. Additional performers include Jan Leslie Harding, Zlata Godunova, Bonita Oliver, and Abbie Minard. Additional builders include Jim Freeman, Jan Leslie Harding, and Zlata Godunova. @zlata_god @frenchleave62317 @abbiefrommars

The CWP Object Movement Puppetry Festival is the culmination of The Center at West Park’s annual residency program in which a cohort of eight puppetry and object theater artists meet and work over the course of seven months to develop new short works. This residency culminates in the Object Movement Puppetry Festival, a two week celebration of puppetry and object theater with a unique lineup of original works each weekend.

The first weekend of 2026’s 9th annual festival features new work created by Daniel Toretsky, Eve Soffer Liberman, Zlata Godunova, and Joshua Holden.

The following weekend features work by Michael Vandergard, Eli Berman, Jan Leslie Harding, and Diane Matyas. taken in Dixon Place by @_eliberman_

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4 months ago

GET TO KNOW the PLOrk HEROES of the
ELECTRONICS & THE VOICE PANEL
Sunday, March 1: Panel/Performance
4pm-6pm | in The Lee Room at @princetonarts center!
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Come hear performances by and join in discussions with artists who use technology to extend, reshuffle, transport, and redefine the human voice in their work!
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Scroll through to get to know @_eliberman_ @lainiebobainie @charmainelee & @pamelazed
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#vocalTechnology #electronicmusic #vocalmusic #PLOrkiversary #Vocoders
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Photos by:
EB => Geve Penaflor
LF => Bill Wadman
PZ => Ian Winters taken in Lewis Center for the Arts by @_eliberman_

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MARCH 1: I have the honor of sharing the stage and joining this panel with voice + electronics ICONS @pamelazed, @charmainelee, and @lainiebobainie!!

Come hear some of the vocal feedback pipes I’m building for my new sound object puppet show through @objectmovementcwp and @centeratwestpark 😈🎭

Thank you so much for the invitation @snyderphonics @plork_ptonlaptoporchestra by @_eliberman_

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