[microsound-announce] ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO: Unleashing the Voice in Creative Music: From Raw Expression to Refined

julian percy julian.percy at gmx.de
Tue Mar 1 12:22:39 EST 2011


25th march 2011 (1Day) 16:00 to 19:00 uhr

ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO: Unleashing the Voice in Creative Music: From Raw Expression to Refined WORKSHOP

The human voice is the oldest instrument of artistic expression and our primary means of day-to-day communication. Cultivating an awareness of vocal ability and understanding the process for removing vocal limitations is a useful undertaking for any person. The purpose of this workshop is to help individuals free their voices.

Participants will leave the workshop with an enhanced understanding of the expressive capacity of the voice across cultures, and the tools to expand their own voices beyond everyday speaking and singing.
in this workshop we will explore the voice as an instrument of the body and soul. Participants will receive instruction in extended techniques used by contemporary musicians and sound poets, while gaining awareness of multiphonics as practiced in a number of traditional and non-traditional settings, with particular emphasis on Tuvan throat singing. Instruction in these enriching techniques will be accompanied by discussion of aesthetic concerns related to the musical cultures covered.
The workshop will be limited to 12 students, so that each participant may have the opportunity to perform for each other in an intimate, supportive environment. This workshop is excellent for those working in interdiscliplinary fields, with interest areas in music, dance, theater, poetry, visual arts, healing sound, and ethnomusicology.
Arrington de Dionyso uses performance as a vehicle for driving through the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance, and the folk imagery of rock and roll. Arrington performs on the bass clarinet, jaw harps, and his voice with a distinctly multiphonic ability inspired by Tuvan throatsinging and the ecclesiastics of Albert Ayler and Don Van Vliet. Pushing the envelope between musicality and pure energy, between shamanic ecstacy and lunacy, he enwraps rooms with resonant sound .
He tours constantly, and has performed or/and recorded with notable improvisers throughout the U.S.A., Canada, Italy, France, Israel and Japan. He presents workshops on improvising with the voice in conjunction with his travels around the world.

Date: 25th march 2011 (1Day)
Place: NK Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2 Etage 12059 Berlin
Time: 16:00 to 19:00
Participation is limited to 12 participants
Registration: Preregistration is required and can be done by sending an email to: info at nkprojekt.de
Fee: 30-40 Euros

Some Testimonials from Workshop Participants-
“Arrington de Dionyso is a comfortable and patient teacher. He allows you to explore the more honest and primal parts of your voice and being. I would recommend this workshop to anyone who has a desire to step further into their own skin. As a performer and as a human being I have found this to be a raw, melting, educational, palateable and inspiring experience.”
“An eye opening, self reflective, healing and challenging experience I will never forget. Thank you for this experience and your knowledge.
Very supportive, open learning enviroment. I even learned how to breathe all over again. Great teacher!”
“Very inspiring, liberating, and encouraging to come to a group and feel a comfortable vulnerability, not only from the participants but the facilitator as well.”
“-smooth and natural progression and transitions, eventually into the depths of personal expression and ground breaking exploration.
-even if one has done this kind of thing before, there will be further opening, learning and appreciation of the mysteries contained within the human voice in all its diverse and extreme variance.”
“Arrington brings a reverence for vocal expression that is contagious, to share the company of and learn from someone who has an inherant awe for anything that could come out of us, is encouraging and humbling simultaneously.”

BIO:
Arrington de Dionyso uses performance as a vehicle for driving through the
nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance,
and the folk imagery of rock and roll. Arrington performs on the bass
clarinet, jaw harps, and his voice with a distinctly multiphonic ability
inspired by Tuvan throatsinging and the ecclesiastics of Albert Ayler and
Don Van Vliet. Pushing the envelope between musicality and pure energy,
between shamanic ecstacy and lunacy, he enwraps rooms with resonant sound .
He tours constantly, and has performed or/and recorded with notable
improvisers throughout the U.S.A., Canada, Italy, France, Israel and
Japan. He presents workshops on improvising with the voice in
conjunction with his travels around the world.
recordings-

with OLD TIME RELIJUN
“Songbook Vol.I” 1996 (Pine Cone Alley)
“Uterus and Fire” 1999 (K Records)
“La Sirena de Pecera” 2000 (K Records)
“Witchcraft Rebellion” 2001 (K Records)
“Varieties of Religious Experience” 2003 (K Records)
“Lost Light” 2004 (K Records)
“2012″ 2005 (K Records)
“Catharsis in Crisis” 2007 (K Records)

other recordings-
ABRAXASAXOPHONIC cd- 2000 (NGWTT)
CREATION MUSIC vol I & II 2001 (Pine Cone Alley)
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO QUARTET- cd & VHS- 2002 (Wallace Records)
ROOT AND CROWN RAGA, with Cat Lamb, viola 2004 (Pine Cone Alley)
SATURN RETURNS, with Thollem McDonas, piano 2004 (Pine Cone Alley)
EL TIGRIS, EUFRATES, y EL RIO DE LA PLATA, with Bryce Panic, drums
2004 (Pine Cone Alley)
BREATH OF FIRE, solo cd 2005 (Pine Cone Alley/K Records)
CASSER LES VAISSELS with Garth Powell LP 2005 (Galerie Pache)
THE TRUE FOLK SOUNDS OF ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO (Melted Mailbox)
ATAQUE HOLOTROPICAL w/Gust Burns (Pine Cone Alley)
PSICOLOMAGICOLO w/Nusch Werchowska
I SEE BEYOND THE BLACK SUN  K Records
THE NAKED FUTURE: GIGANTOMACHIA ESP Disk
MALAIKAT DAN SINGA K Records

self published books of writing and art work-
“Bromios the Boisterous” 1995
“Thump Thump Skraw Daw” 1995
“Baby Dragon’s Colouring Book” 1995
“The Casino” 1997
“A Book of Drawings” 1999
“New Drawings” 2000
“The Witchcraft Rebellion Colouring Book” 2001
“Ghost Walrus Under Moonlight” 2004
“Nuovi Disegni 2005″
“Wakarimasen” 2007
“Aion Codex” 2009

Art Exhibitions-
1999 “New Drawings” one man show at the Capitol Theater, Olympia
2002 “Eating Through the Looking Glass” one man show, The Smell, Los Angeles
2002 “Rock 2003 “Seattle Erotic Art Festival” group show, Seattle
2003 “Alchemical Manifestoes: New Drawings and Gouache” one man show, and
performance at Area 5, Missoula, Montana
2003 “Duo Paintings” paintings by Arrington de Dionyso and Chauney Peck,
Capitol Theater, Olympia
2004 “Ghost Walrus Under Moonlight: Drawings made while traveling
through Buenos Aires, Gothenburg, Montreal, and Juneau” at A Ship
Wrecked, Manhattan, NY
2004 Artfair at Jupiter Hotel, Portland (Fresh Up Club)
2004 solo showing at Department of Safety, Anacortes
2004 solo art show and performance at The Butchershop, Vancouver BC
2004 POOL OF RADIANCE, group show in Manhattan
2004 Les Mains d’Oeuvres gallery, Paris, France (solo showing)
2005 WHITE PAGES, group show at Pickled Art Center, Beijing, China
2005 BLIM! Vancouver, BC group showing and performance
2005 K Temple, Olympia, USA
2006 Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France
2006 Le Musee de le Art Moderne, Strasbourg, France
2006 Halleluwah! Disjecta, Portland, OR
2006 “Eager Believer” group show, Orphanage Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 The Witchcraft Rebellion Valentine’s, Portland, OR
2008 Sumi Ink Drawings, The Waypost, Portland, OR
2008 Mixed Emotions, Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, NY

Workshops and Residencies
2004 IDEAL Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
2004 Bard College, NY
2004 Department of Safety, Anacortes, WA
2004 Butchershop Gallery, Vancouver BC
2004 Improv Garage, Oakland, CA
2004 Trasportti Marittimi, Otranto, Italy
2005 Festival Etna, Catania, Italy
2005 Castello Vecchio, Itri, Italy
2005 Atelier Tampon, Paris, France
2005 Seattle Festival of Improvised Musics
2005 Festival MoFo, Paris, France
2005 Patiphone, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 Schio, Italy
2005 Hybrida Cultural Center, Tarcento, Italy
2006 INSTAL Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
2007 Tour of Japan
2007 Residency in Cherbourg, France
2009 Semaine du Son, France
2009 Artist Residency at Le Dernier Cri studios, Marseille, France
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