Sonic Adventures with Khabu Doug Young & Stephanie Wood
Free (pay-what-you-can; $10-$15 suggested donation)
Join Khabu (visiting from Boulder) and Stephanie (Seattle) for an impromptu improv event of following sonic threads and deepening collective sonic presence.
Some of it might nestle you down into the deep bosom of meditation. Some of it might make your noise music-lover throw up "devil-horns". We dunno what will happen, so come for it all. There will be nice people, macaroons, strings, FX pedals, silence, contact mics, sound sculptures, DIY, and percussion.
"That great, BUT WILL THERE BE GONGS?!" you ask. "Oh YES, there will be gongs!"
Donation at the door $10-$15 (pay what you can, no one ever turned away)
About Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood is a sound artist/sound practitioner, composer, and healing justice activist with eclectic works from ambient to noise. Stephanie uses a variety of tuned metal, DIY instruments, FX-processing, and field recordings.
Stephanie incorporates silence, existing soundscape, and creates collective experiential features into her work. Along with love for drone, soundtracks and Foley arts, her greatest desire is to support collective deep listening and more visibly interlace sound theology and contemporary experimental music. Having a "wall of gongs", she has studied under Mitch Nur/9ways Academia, Mike Tamburo, Thomas Orr Anderson, and Sada Simran.
Along with sound art, she also holds sound sessions that include ceremonial sound objects to support harmony, healing, and deepened spiritual connection within the realm of trauma and grief recovery. Stephanie orchestrated Guru Gayatri's 16-musician equinox/solstice sound immersion events and holds various sound-centered ceremonial and altar-building events. As an educator, she's taught workshops on group composition and improvisation with gongs and DIY/FX.
In Colorado, Stephanie was a percussionist in Denver's Itchy-O, opening for David Byrne & St. Vincent, DEVO, the Melvins, and Beats Antique, among others. More recent collaborations have included co-hosting Taoist Studies Institute’s NO CONCERT experimental concert series, creating sound sculptures with artist Sarah Lavin Fansler and taught experimental gong coursework with Mike Tamburo. Collaborators have also included Kurt Baur of Animal Object, Steve Gordon, Jim Knodle, Leanna Keith, Christopher Arnett, Ivan Espinosa, and Butoh Daipan.