It’s a shame but, the harp is one of those instruments that tends to get typecast—it’s the go-to tool to evoke the ethereal, the pastoral, the stereotypically feminine. Harpist Grace Scheele, however, understands that this baggage also makes it ripe for subversion, she also understands that one needn’t throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. The result of her vision and exhaustive research into her instrument—as one hears in the video Manifest—is a pliable, fluid, continuum of sound that’s as beautiful as it is unconventional. She variously bows the instrument, employs preparations for radiant sizzles of colour, summons everything from howls to percussive pops. On the other hand, she also weaves chiming resonances and fluttering melody through these textures and augments them with electronics. For those that didn’t know it already, Scheele asserts—and persuasively so—that the harp is a rich and polymorphous tool.