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 body and 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 12 students, so that each participant may have the opportunity to perform for each other in an intimate, supportive environment. This workshop is excellent for those working in interdiscliplinary fields, with interest areas in music, dance, theater, poetry, visual arts, healing sound, and ethnomusicology.

Arrington de Dionyso 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 performs on the bass clarinet, jaw harps, and his voice 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 shamanic ecstacy and lunacy, he enwraps rooms with resonant sound .

He tours constantly, and has performed or/and recorded with notable improvisers throughout the U.S.A., Canada, Italy, France, Israel and Japan. He presents workshops on improvising with the voice in conjunction with his travels around the world.

Date: 30th march 2010 (1Day)
Place: NK Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2 Etage 12059 Berlin
Time: 17:00 to 20:00
Participation is limited to 12 participants

Registration: Preregistration is required and can be done by sending an email to enka_nk@gmx.de
Fee: 30 Euros

Some Testimonials from Workshop Participants-

“Arrington de Dionyso is a comfortable and patient teacher. He allows you to explore the more honest and primal parts of your voice and being. I would recommend this workshop to anyone who has a desire to step further into their own skin. As a performer and as a human being I have found this to be a raw, melting, educational, palateable and inspiring experience.”

“An eye opening, self reflective, healing and challenging experience I will never forget. Thank you for this experience and your knowledge.

Very supportive, open learning enviroment. I even learned how to breathe all over again. Great teacher!”

“Very inspiring, liberating, and encouraging to come to a group and feel a comfortable vulnerability, not only from the participants but the facilitator as well.”

“-smooth and natural progression and transitions, eventually into the depths of personal expression and ground breaking exploration.

-even if one has done this kind of thing before, there will be further opening, learning and appreciation of the mysteries contained within the human voice in all its diverse and extreme variance.”

“Arrington brings a reverence for vocal expression that is contagious, to share the company of and learn from someone who has an inherant awe for anything that could come out of us, is encouraging and humbling simultaneously.”

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 (K Records) “Lost Light” 2004 (K Records) “2012″ 2005 (K Records) “Catharsis in Crisis” 2007 (K Records)

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)

BREATH OF FIRE, solo cd 2005 (Pine Cone Alley/K Records) CASSER LES VAISSELS with Garth Powell LP 2005 (Galerie Pache) THE TRUE FOLK SOUNDS OF ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO (Melted Mailbox) ATAQUE HOLOTROPICAL w/Gust Burns (Pine Cone Alley) PSICOLOMAGICOLO w/Nusch Werchowska I SEE BEYOND THE BLACK SUN K Records MALAIKAT DAN SINGA K Records

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 “Nuovi Disegni 2005″

“Wakarimasen” 2007

“Aion Codex” 2009

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

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, NY

2004 Artfair at Jupiter Hotel, Portland (Fresh Up Club)

2004 solo showing at Department of Safety, Anacortes

2004 solo art show and performance at The Butchershop, VancouverBC

2004 POOL OF RADIANCE, group show in Manhattan

2004 Les Mains d’Oeuvres gallery, Paris, France (solo showing)

2005 WHITE PAGES, group show at PickledArtCenter, Beijing, China

2005 BLIM! Vancouver, BC group showing and performance

2005 K Temple, Olympia, USA

2006 Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France

2006 Le Musee de le Art Moderne, Strasbourg, France

2006 Halleluwah! Disjecta, Portland, OR

2006 “Eager Believer” group show, Orphanage Gallery, Los Angeles

2006 The Witchcraft Rebellion Valentine’s, Portland, OR

2008 Sumi Ink Drawings, The Waypost, Portland, OR

2008 Mixed Emotions, Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, NY

Workshops and Residencies

2004 IDEAL Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden

2004 Bard College, NY

2004 Department of Safety, Anacortes, WA

2004 Butchershop Gallery, VancouverBC

2004 Improv Garage, Oakland, CA

2004 Trasportti Marittimi, Otranto, Italy

2005 Festival Etna, Catania, Italy

2005 Castello Vecchio, Itri, Italy

2005 Atelier Tampon, Paris, France

2005 Seattle Festival of Improvised Musics

2005 Festival MoFo, Paris, France

2005 Patiphone, Tel Aviv, Israel

2005 Schio, Italy

2005 Hybrida Cultural Center, Tarcento, Italy

2006 INSTAL Festival, Glasgow, Scotland

2007 Tour of Japan

2007 Residency in Cherbourg, France

2009 Semaine du Son, France

2009 Artist Residency at Le Dernier Cri studios, Marseille, France

We host a weekly SuperCollider Meeting which takes place every monday evening providing a space for sharing of code, and musical ideas through different artist presentations. Currently, plans are also underway for bringing the SuperCollider Symposium to Berlin in 2010 in collaboration with the Berlin SC_Symposium_Team.

Artist Presentations at the Weekly SuperCollider Meetings Links to Artists below in order of presentation dates most recent first:

Monday 11 January 2010
Julian Rohrhuber, Alberto de Campo and the IMM/UdK networkers
http://entropie.digital.udk-berlin.de

Monday, 30th November 2009
Hannes Hoelzl
http://www.earweego.net/

12th November 2009
Jeff Carey
http://jeffcarey.foundation-one.org/

12th of October 2009:
Alberto de Campo
http://www.musikundmedien.net/index.php?id=325

5th of October 2009:
Morgan Packard
http://www.morganpackard.com

17th of August 2009:
Nick Collins
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/nc81/index.html

13th of July 2009:
Dan Stowell
http://www.mcld.co.uk/

26th January 2009:
Daisuke Ishida
http://isddsk.com/

4th June 2009:
TakekoNext800’s
http://www.tn8.jp/craftwife/

18th May 2009:
Redfrik
http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/

20th April 2009:
Cylob
http://www.cylob.com/home_a.html

26th May 2009:
Timeblind
http://www.crucial-systems.com/

5th May 2009:
Morgan Packard
http://www.morganpackard.com/
Andre Bartetzki
http://www.bartetzki.de/de/index.html

At Madame Claude 22nd March 9pm
http://www.myspace.com/experimontag
Lübbener Str. 19
X-Berg
10997 Berlin

Antihairball

http://www.myspace.com/antihairball

Todesgeist

http://www.myspace.com/todesgeistprojekt

Idiot Switch

http://www.myspace.com/idiotswitch

At Raum 18

http://raum18-berlin.com/
Ziegrastraße 11
12057 Berlin

Contact Derek Holzer for building access: +49 176 2812 5845 / derek@umatic.nl
Or contribute online!
http://en.flossmanuals.net/puredata
irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals

Pure Data (or Pd) is a free + open source, real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. Because all of these types of media are handled as data in the program, many fascinating opportunities for cross-synthesis between them exist.

Pd is commonly used for live music performance, VeeJaying, sound effects composition, interfacing with sensors, cameras and robots or even interacting with websites.
A book sprint brings together a group of writers, editors and artists to produce a published book within several days. This sprint will combine a workshop within it, where new users will learn to create basic patches in Pd, documenting them along the way for the FLOSS Manual. This is an exciting opportunity both to acquire new skills as well as share them with others in the form of a book!
This sprint is a long-distance collaboration between FLOSS Manuals, the Berlin Pure Data users group and ITP/Tisch School of the Arts, New York.

Please bring your own laptop with Pure Data Extended installed. The workshop is free, with the expectation that participants will contribute to the FLOSS Manual.

“Free manuals for free software”

http://www.flossmanuals.net/about

So if you interested in computer music, open source music applications and interfaces, Max/MSP, M4L or just like to hang out and listen, then just drop by and join us – there is plenty of space.

@NK

Elsenstr. 52/
2.Hinterhaus Etage 2
12059 Berlin Neukölln

FREE ENTRANCE

http://www.myspace.com/frankbartz

@NK

Elsenstr. 52/
2.Hinterhaus Etage 2
12059 Berlin Neukölln

FREE ENTRANCE

El Gusano Rojo
www.hijos-de-puta.org

PRAYING FOR OBLIVION
http://www.myspace.com/prayingforoblivion23

PAS
http://www.myspace.com/postabortionstress

BRUITAL ORGASM
http://www.myspace.com/bruitalorgasm

At Raum 18

http://raum18-berlin.com/

Ziegrastraße 11
12057 Berlin

Julian Rohrhuber and Alberto de Campo have been developing software for and performing with just in time programming languages and in networked contexts for years, most prominently in the ensemble powerbooks_unplugged. This presentation with a larger group is using a new library for networked music written in SC3, Republic.

More info here

Mo. Jan 11, 2010,
8 pm / 20h
NK, Elsenstrasse 52,
Berlin/Neukoelln
Free entrance