Wayward Music Series: Chingiz Kam + Tiger Poems
Pay what you can, $20-$40 suggested; no one turned away for lack of funds
- Chingiz Kam, throat singing
- Arrington de Dionyso, bass clarinet, voice, & voice mask
- Gust Burns, piano
- Noel Kennon, sound sculptures
Note: Audience for this event is limited to 85 people.
An evening of Tuvan Shamanism and throat singing with Chingiz Kam and Arrington de Dionyso.
Chingiz Kam is a practicing hereditary Tuvan shaman from the Republic of Tuva (Siberia, Russia). He will conduct a powerful healing ritual, sharing his personal "Algysh" – an ancient shamanic chant full of spiritual power. Everyone may benefit: some will have a unique chance to touch one of the most ancient spiritual traditions on earth; some will have an unforgettable cultural experience; and some will receive spiritual and physical healing.
During this sacred ritual, each participant has the opportunity to join the journey of spirit flight undertaken by the shaman. This journey into the world of spirits and inner transformations, as taught by Tuvan shamanism, allows you to enter a special state where you can confront your fears, uncover your true desires, and crystallize intentions. Through the deep pulsing sounds of the dungur (shamanic drum) and throat singing, the shaman will guide you into other realms —the celestial, the underground, and the hidden depths of your consciousness. This journey will open new horizons of inner strength and lead to healing, release from burdens, and relief for the soul. The answers to your questions and the path to transformation already lie within you—the shaman simply serves as a guide, helping you uncover the wisdom embedded in your spiritual journey.
Collaborating with Chingiz at the beginning and ending of his ceremony is Tiger Poems, a collective of Seattle- and Olympia-based improvisers known for intense performances bordering on energetic exorcism, featuring Arrington de Dionyso (bass clarinet and voice mask), Gust Burns on piano, and Noel Kennon on sound sculptures.
About Wayward Music Series
Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present 10 concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center: contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics.
https://www.waywardmusic.org/About Tiger Poems
Tiger Poems is Arrington de Dionyso (bass clarinet and voice masking), Gust Burns (piano), and Noel Kennon (idiosyncratic percussion).
"Tiger seems a little mad… in a sense, the tiger is mad. but the tiger is also perfectly at ease. the tiger is simultaneously disarming and making minute preparations stalking and exiting beaming and weeping mending and tearing feeling and deflecting engaged in sabotage and reconstruction self defense and desubjectivation sweeping away all traces of security to condition the abolition of endangerment." (prose piece by Gust Burns)
About Chingiz Kam, throat singing
In Chingiz's own words: "I was born on the banks of the mighty Siberian river Yenisei and raised in the city of Kyzyl, Republic of Tuva (Russia, Siberia). I have the title of Brown Bear Shaman. In my family, both on my father's side and on my mother's side, there were ancestors of shamans. Ancestors come from Tes-Khemsky and Ovyursky districts, the Republic of Tuva, which is located on the border with Mongolia.
"Childhood and youth were mostly spent at the shepherd's camp of my grandparents. They have kept their culture of nomadic life up to the present. Every vacation I came to them and helped them with the housework. During this time, my special connection and love for nature and animals was formed. Just like all Tuvans always, I pastured sheep and goats, sang songs in the steppes and in the mountains. I recognized life around me through the prism of Tuvan traditions. During this period, I met many spirits of the mountains, taiga, and rivers of my native places. They sometimes appeared in the form of deer, bear, wolf, snowy owl, eagle, and other animals, and sometimes as strong strange short winds.
All my life I clearly felt that someone was watching me closely. They were invisible defenders. When I was very ill, my ancestors came in dreams in the guise of various familiar people and fumigated with the help of artysh (juniper), after which I quickly began to recover. I have never been able to get lost in a dense forest or in an unfamiliar area. I felt many strange inexplicable things very accurately and my correct decisions were formed from this. Some people felt that I was a shaman and asked me to make charms and amulets.
Ancestral shamans also gave life lessons and the necessary knowledge for shamanic practice to one degree or another. They began to actively 'work' at the time when I was about 27 years old. At that time, I had already graduated from the university and worked in my specialty. Any technique stopped working next to me, because of this there were problems at work. Reality seemed to become unreal and I experienced health problems, but the results of all tests showed that I was healthy. This went on for a couple of years, until the ancestors of the shamans "in their own ways" found me a mentor – a practicing Tuvan shaman, who is also a member of the "Adyg Eeren" society. I was initiated by three strongest shamans of the "Adyg Eeren" society, one of whom was the Supreme Shaman of Tuva. So I started my practice in a shamanic clinic in Kyzyl."
https://tuvankam.com/About Arrington de Dionyso, bass clarinet, voice, & voice mask
About Gust Burns, piano
About Noel Kennon, sound sculptures
Noel Kennon is a composer and artist whose work often deals with the physical qualities of sound such as the mathematical (or theoretical) forms of pitch space in relation to the harmonic series, difference tones, and the sonority of volume or rather the sonority of space both enclosed and open (on any scale) as well as nominating the socio/environmental effects and phenomenon of sounding in space such as the purpose and politics in engaging strangers along with other unhelpful pursuits. All the while stumbling toward an expression of the sound of that which is not struck in the search of a way to reach compassion to address our collective unending suffering.
https://noelkennon.bandcamp.com/