Ayanna Woods is a composer, performer and producer from Chicago, IL. She earned her BA in music at Yale University. Woods’ work has been performed by Third Coast Percussion, Wet Ink Ensemble, the Chicago Children’s Choir, and members of Fifth House Ensemble. Her music has also appeared in a range of film and theater projects, including the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls and an original Manual Cinema play No Blue Memories based on the life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Currently, she’s writing her debut solo album under the name Yadda Yadda. Her music explores the spaces between acoustic and electronic, traditional and esoteric, wildly improvisational and mathematically rigorous.
