Throat Singing Workshop-April 18- May 9

Tuvan Throat Singing Workshop with Scott Peterson

Where: 195 Church St. @ Shuter

When: Saturdays, 1 p.m.- 3 p.m. 4 sessions from April 18- May 9

Fee: $100 or $80 if registered before April 9

We will explore 2 styles of Tuvan throat singing: Xhoomei (high pitched whistle sound) and Kargyraa (guttural and low sound)

You do not need a musical background for this workshop--just a throat.

Scott Peterson discovered throat singing by accident in a shaman's maloca in the Peruvian Andes. Since this discovery, he has travelled to the Republic of Tuva in Siberia to study throat singing with Tuvan master throat singer Sergei Ondar. Scott is a composer, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, and music teacher. Scott is integrating throat singing with western improvisational technique.

To register, contact CopterStetson@gmail.com

Nuit Blanche Happenings

4 AM- Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building- Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

Vox Novus, in collaboration with Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) presents 60x60 Featuring 60 electroacoustic works with visual accompaniment.

60x60 includes my composition entitled "Colony Collapse", a short lament for our beloved pollinators.

Of The Branches

Of The Branches is a music project, an exploration, some seeds and a garden, something to share.

The songs have been created by Scott Peterson for a project called Liminal.

Selected Liminal songs are available via Creative Commons.

The mixes contain Liminal and Inversenet tracks as well as other bits and peices, found sounds and so on, and are layered by Morgan Maher.

Many of the Liminal songs available for download are found in the mixes.

Tuva

I am pleased to announce that I will be heading to the distant land of Tuva this summer, to perform solo bass compositions at the Utsuu-Khuree music festival and study Khoomei with master throat singers.

"Ustuu-Khuree – the mightiest Buddhist monastery of pre-revolutionary Tuva - was destroyed in the early 30's , and the priests and monks were subjected to persecution.
"The flame of the lamp of this khuree (Buddhist temple-monastery) has not gone out yet", said His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV, when he visited Tuva in September 1992.
The festival of live music, Ustuu-Khuree, which takes place in Chadan, is dedicated to the rebuilding of the temple. This year, from 15th to 19th July, this will be a 10th anniversary festival "Ustuu-Khuree", "TuvaOnline was told by the director of the festival, Igor Dulush."

(from tuva-online)

My sincere and heartfelt thanks to Butterfield and Robinson for their generous support of this project.

mandapam camp

More on Mandapam Camp at Wikipedia

san pedro cactus flowers in cusco, peru

Last day of Divine Light

today is the final day Divine Light. I will be at the gallery until 6:00

thanks to Morgan Maher, Yumee Chung, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alice Klein, Peter Lutek, Jaymie, Lori, and Stephen from the Deleon White Gallery, and the Toronto Arts Council for making it all possible.

and special thanks to all those who attended.

"the most notable names on any list will always turn out to be those omitted"-

Jorge Luis Borges