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NOW Improvisation Workshop with Arrington de Dionyso
October 1, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
NOW Improvisation Workshops Fall 2023 At 8EAST
October 1 – Arrington de Dionyso
2:00 – 3:30 pm Sunday Oct 1
FREE with NOW Membership, Donations gratefully accepted (donate here). The workshop includes October 1 as well as workshops on Oct. 28, Nov. 4, Nov. 11 and Nov. 18. Find out about all of the workshops by clicking here.
Since 1978, the New Orchestra Workshop Society (NOW) has presented music improvisation workshops, offering space for exploration and participation. Our workshops are for improvisers of all levels of ability and ranges of experience, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, age, race or religion. We protect privacy in our workshops and adopt the We Have Voice Collective Code of Conduct. Read more about NOW workshop policies here.
Arrington de Dionyso
An uncompromising voice in contemporary music, Arrington de Dionyso integrates ancient soundmaking techniques with trans-modernist inquiries into the nature of consciousness. His propulsive improvisations utilize voice and reeds (primarily bass clarinets and his invention the Bromiophone) as multiphonic tools in the navigation of liminal spaces between shamanic seance and rock and roll ecstasy.
While deeply rooted in the punk inclination to tear down musical standards in an effort for liberation, Arrington’s music weds no-wave iconoclasm with the spiritual searching of Albert Ayler-era free jazz to reach towards an unveiling of primordially potent universalities. His compositions embrace sounds as colors, placing emphasis on the complimentary spectrums- from circular overtones whispered through bamboo flutes to the penetrating and deeply guttural howls of amplified throat singing – all with the lungs of an Olympiad.
https://arrington.bandcamp.com/
photo by Henrik Lovgren