Annapurna Dharma Communion: The Wind That Rolls Upon The Water
$5-$20 donation at the door
- Joey Largent, cello, voice, field recording
- Michael Shannon, cello & voice
- Jackie An, violin
- Manasvi Patel, 7-limit shruti box, bamboo chimes, copper chimes & bells
- Sam Vanderlinda, 7-limit shruti box, steel tongue drum, bells & tibetan bowls
- Russell Christenson, 7-limit harmonium & bells
- Ian Gwin, Miraj tambura
- Katrina Wolfe, movement
Joey Largent presents his most recent composition in collaboration with movement/costume/installation artist Katrina Wolfe for an acoustic just intonation ensemble composed of practitioners of Burmese vipassana, musicians, and friends. Composed primarily on the Olympic Coast and in the North Cascades near the Lower Curtis Glacier, the work follows an exploration of changing natural landscapes and physical masses as the ensemble organically weaves through a semi-improvised score paired with the gradual tidal changes of an extended field recording from the Washington Coast. Sensitive to the sound and structure, Wolfe offers a complementary reflection of the terrain through continuous, hypnotic movement that is enhanced by her meticulously hand-stitched costumes and intricate choreography. Pulling from ongoing years of study in North Indian Classical gayaki (vocal music), Largent's composition unifies these elements by suspending a passage through variations of four different ragas of morning, afternoon, and night for a slow moving work of an unfixed duration.
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 Joey Largent, cello, voice, field recording
Joey Largent’s work explores relationships between time, consciousness, and the physical body, using acoustic instruments to delicately interweave organic vibrations with both natural and psychosomatic landscapes. Through the performance of durational compositions rich in natural overtones – often using just intonation – and through frequent collaborations with movement artists, Joey seeks to produce deep feeling and experience through sound– one that is strongly immersive, sensitive, and empathetic, inviting listeners to be both performers and observers of the continuously changing sensations throughout the body and mind.
https://www.joeylargent.com/About Michael Shannon, cello & voice
Michael Shannon is a Seattle based musician/performer active since 1979 who has worked with groups in San Francisco such as Plateau Ensemble, Lethal Gospel, < < < (pronounced ‘ku ku ku’), Aquarium Music, Joyo, Kahunas, Earnerve, Blue World, Appliances, Wish Radio, Broken Mask, Trigram, and in Seattle, with the Animist Orchestra and Aono Jikken Ensemble, in addition to producing solo material. He has also composed for and worked as a sound designer for a number of Seattle-based modern dance choreographers. His solo work has been released as a series of cassettes by Joy Street Studios (his own label), and on many cassette/CD compilations around the world. He is featured on the CDs, Meander by Blue World, and Coincidentiae Mirabiles with Jeph Jerman, Dave Knott, Susie Kozawa, and Miroslaw Rajkowski, as well as releasing a solo LP, 'Laguz', on Anomalous Records. His work involves improvised interactions of East Asian, North African, Middle Eastern, and western instruments, with tape, field recordings and electronics that result in unique compositions of quiet, stately beauty.
About Jackie An, violin
Jackie An (they/them) accompanies their audience through the themes of life, death, horror and delight through the many voices of the violin. Like a bowerbird, they have collected learnings and experiences from across their lifetime in order to construct a nest for community healing to hatch. Jackie is also a Somatic Educator in the Tradition of Thomas Hanna, guiding people back home to their bodies.
https://soundcloud.com/circadiesAbout Ian Gwin, Miraj tambura
Ian Gwin plays synth with Hanna Broback in the experimental drone duo current (formerly Glum Reaper). He leads the group Ensemble Unnamable and has performed with Joey Largent, Stephen Fandrich, and others.
https://spectrapoets.org/Glissando-by-Ian-GwinAbout Katrina Wolfe, movement
Katrina Wolfe is an interdisciplinary artist working in the mediums of performance art, costume making, installation, photography, and sculpture. A primary focus of Katrina’s work is the practice, teaching and performance of Masukhuma: a dance, movement therapy and performance art technique that has evolved from her experience in butoh, visual arts, and her daily practice of Vipassana meditation. Katrina studied primarily with butoh artists Joan Laage and Atsushi Takenouchi. She also gained great inspiration through studying the films of butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata and through an intensive workshop with first-generation butoh artist Daisuke Yoshimoto. By creating costumes and installations from organic and recycled materials, and through merging the body with various environments – both natural and created – Katrina’s work explores issues of attachment, over-consumption, climate change, waste, and ephemerality.