|mini-booking archive| |agripon|arrington de dionyso|janvier 2005| 18.01 paris @ atelier tampon (+ Badtzmaru) 19.01 paris / workshop @ atelier tampon 20.01 reims @ cheval blanc 21.01 rennes @ mondo bizarro 22.01 poitiers @ cod-bar 23.01 bordeaux @ la centrale 24.01 off 25.01 lille @ la malterie 26.01 louvain la neuve (B) @ ferme de bierreau 27.01 amiens @ la briquetterie ...... Unleashing the Voice in Creative Music: From Raw Expression to Refined Technique A performance / workshop with Arrington de Dionyso 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 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 15 students, so that each participant may have the opportunity to perform for each other in a small, supportive environment. Unleashing the Voice in Creative Music: From Raw Expression to Refined Technique BIO and CV Arrington de Dionyso (b. January 4th, 1975) of Olympia, Washington 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 moved to Olympia in 1992 to attend the Evergreen State College, where he studied Ethnomusicology, Music Therapy, and Butoh dance theater. In 1995 he founded the group Old Time Relijun, which has since toured and recorded throughout the US and Europe and has released six albums on the K Records label from Olympia, enthralling audiences with an approach to performance described as deep hermetic practice and/or "stewed diarrhea" by critics in the k(no)w. Always a multi-instrumentalist (self-taught), Arrington's playing has focused particularly on the bass clarinet over the last ten years, which he plays 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 religious ecstacy and lunacy, Arrington enwraps rooms with resonant sound. In addition to Old Time Relijun, Arrington devotes a significant amount of his time to furthering the cause of free improvisation. He is the founder and curator of the Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics, in its eleventh year. Arrington has performed or/and recorded with notable improvisers throughout the West Coast and Italy. Arrington has received increased attention for his visual art work, which deals with many of the same themes as his music. Recent exhibits have been held in Los Angeles, New York City, and Bologna, Italy. A series of several dozen ink drawings is on view at http://kpunk.com/OldTimeRelijun/index.html arrington de dionyso curriculum vitae 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 "Lost Light" 2004 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) 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 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<Action" group show, Bologna, Italy 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 2004 Artfair at Jupiter Hotel, Portland 2004 showing at Department of Safety, Anacortes 2004 art show and performance at The Butchershop, Vancouver BC Workshops and Residencies 2004 Bard College 2004 Department of Safety, Anacortes 2004 Butchershop Gallery, Vancouver BC