Wayward Music Series: Kin of the Moon & Stephanie Wood
$5-$20 donation at the door
- Stephanie Wood, gong
Kin of the Moon teams up with gong artist Stephanie Wood to present new works and psychedelic improvisations.
Kin of the Moon returns to the Chapel Performance Space to perform two works inspired by the natural world: delicate balance, an ode to the fragility of the ecosystem on the Galapagos Islands by Kaley Lane Eaton, and Ichneumonidae, a song cycle about insects by Heather Bentley. They're joined by gong/percussion artist Stephanie Wood for an exploration of the Ganzfeld concept in improvisation.
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 Kin of the Moon
Kin of the Moon is composers Kaley Lane Eaton (voice, piano, electronics), Heather Bentley (viola, cello, violin), and Leanna Keith (flutes). The group explores sonic rituals, promotes cross-pollination of genres, emphasizes the communicative power of specific performance locales and celebrates the creativity that multiplies itself through the collaboration of performers and composers. The artists of Kin of the Moon devote their lives to reaching higher vibrational levels through sound creation.
https://kinofthemoon.org/About Stephanie Wood, gong
Stephanie Wood is a sound artist/sound practitioner, composer, and healing justice activist with eclectic works from ambient to noise. Stephanie uses a variety of tuned metal, DIY instruments, FX-processing, and field recordings.
Stephanie incorporates silence, existing soundscape, and creates collective experiential features into her work. Along with love for drone, soundtracks and Foley arts, her greatest desire is to support collective deep listening and more visibly interlace sound theology and contemporary experimental music. Having a "wall of gongs", she has studied under Mitch Nur/9ways Academia, Mike Tamburo, Thomas Orr Anderson, and Sada Simran.
Along with sound art, she also holds sound sessions that include ceremonial sound objects to support harmony, healing, and deepened spiritual connection within the realm of trauma and grief recovery. Stephanie orchestrated Guru Gayatri's 16-musician equinox/solstice sound immersion events and holds various sound-centered ceremonial and altar-building events. As an educator, she's taught workshops on group composition and improvisation with gongs and DIY/FX.
In Colorado, Stephanie was a percussionist in Denver's Itchy-O, opening for David Byrne & St. Vincent, DEVO, the Melvins, and Beats Antique, among others. More recent collaborations have included co-hosting Taoist Studies Institute’s NO CONCERT experimental concert series, creating sound sculptures with artist Sarah Lavin Fansler and taught experimental gong coursework with Mike Tamburo. Collaborators have also included Kurt Baur of Animal Object, Steve Gordon, Jim Knodle, Leanna Keith, Christopher Arnett, Ivan Espinosa, and Butoh Daipan.