Dates: August 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30
All evenings begin at 7 pm, please come and settle in early
We are surrounded by sound, we are sound and everything around us is vibrational and emits frequencies. The Experiential Sound Series offers you a different experience in listening versus watching and hearing. These are not performances, but experiences to participate in and deepen your listening and experiencing abilities. Programs range from a Soundwalk with Composer Dean Rosenthal, an evening of flutes from varied cultures and times noticing how they affect you differently, an evening of meditative piano to a Sound Bath with a variety of vibrational healing instruments. Learn how sound can become a tool in your life and change your relationship to listening.
These are not performances, but opportunities to immerse yourself, so bring mats or blankets and pillows to make your self comfortable on the floor, maybe something to cover your eyes. (*Except for the Soundwalk).
Aug. 2 - Dean Rosenthal
Composer Dean Rosenthal will lead a group on a soundwalk through the grounds of the Featherstone campus. Together, participants will discover unique listening posts along a path and hear the area in a new way, focusing on the particular and special sounds of the Featherstone campus. An introduction to the walk will be provided when the group meets.
Dean Rosenthal is an American composer of contemporary and experimental music, field recordings, digital pastiche, sound collage, and installations; performer, writer on music, and theorist; his instrumental music has been described as "thorny" and "modernist" (The New Yorker). His works are performed, broadcast, choreographed, and installed internationally, primarily in North America and Europe. His writings have been published in The Open Space Magazine, The Ear Reader, and other prominent contemporary publications. Most recently he has worked closely with Guggenheim Fellow David Parker's dance company The Bang Group, utilizing contemporary dance to express his instrumental music. Since 2012, he has made his home on Martha's Vineyard, where he composed his ongoing international performance piece Stones/Water/Time/Breath. In 2016 this piece was given a 10 city, 3 country performance as part of the international Make Music Day festival, inaugurating an annual event that celebrated its’ third year in 2018. Learn more at www.deanrosenthal.org.
August 9 -- Jan Hulka, Ed Merck and Carole Vandal
Come experience three wind players Jan Julka on a selction of bamboo flutes and fujara, Ed Merck playing historic recorders called sweet flutes in Europe normally for playing Western classical music from the 12th thru mid-18th century and Carole Vandal playing Native American Flute. Feel where the distinctive sounds take you on their own, noticing what is different from instrument to instrument. Further journeying when the sounds play off one another.
Jan Hulka, originally from the Czech Republic, is passionate about being a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner specializing in CranioSacral Therapy and other healing arts. His other passion is playing many varied styles of bamboo flutes from Kiowa Native, Shakuhachi, Arabian, Egyptian, from meditation flutes to penny whistles. The most unique sound comes from Fujara, his homeland’s traditional instrument.
Ed Merck, author of “Sailing the Mystery,” and numerous articles for PBS’s “Next Avenue,” has been a full-time resident of the Vineyard since 2013. Prior to that he worked in Higher Education as a chief financial officer and software entrepreneur. Ed is a certified yoga teacher, Reiki Master, on-island meditation teacher, and performing musician.
Carole Vandal is a native Islander, member of the Wampanoag Tribe, Native American flute player/musician and poet who lives in Aquinnah.
August 16 --Tuning Fork Symphonic Stroll
