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SUMMARY:Sound & Consciousness: Mary Lattimore\, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe\, M
 ake Noise's Experimental Meditation Club\, and Binaural Beats with Katya L
 ovejoy
LOCATION:AyurPrana Listening Room
DESCRIPTION:APLR & Make Noise Present: **Sound & Consciousness - A Day Expl
 oring What Happens When We Listen to Sound**\n\nSaturday\, November 21\, 2
 026\n\nDoors: NOON || Event: 1PM\n\nAyurPrana Listening Room - 312 Haywood
  Rd\, Asheville\, NC 28806\n\nSound & Consciousness brings together artist
 s and audio experts who use sound in very different ways to investigate a 
 deceptively simple question: what happens to us when we listen? Through pe
 rformance\, conversation\, experimentation\, and embodied practice\, the s
 ymposium explores how sound shapes our experience and our relationship to 
 consciousness.\n\nThe program will feature special performances by Mary La
 ttimore and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe\, along with a conversation with Lowe 
 about his work in film scoring. Tony Rolando and Kelly Kelbel will discuss
  the creative and meditative practices behind Experimental Meditation Club
 \, which will also host a special event during the symposium. Workshops in
  sound healing and binaural beats will offer opportunities to experience t
 hese ideas directly.\n\n**PRESENTERS:**\n\n**Mary Lattimore**\n\nThrough e
 vocative\, emotionally resonant music\, Goodbye\, Hotel Arkada\, the new L
 P from American harpist and composer Mary Lattimore\, speaks not just for 
 its beloved namesake — a hotel in Croatia facing renovation — but for 
 a universal loss that is shared.\n\nSix sprawling pieces shaped by change
 \; nothing will ever be the same\, and here\, the artist\, evolving in syn
 thesis\, celebrates and mourns the tragedy and beauty of the ephemeral\, a
 ll that is lived and lost to time. Documented and edited in uncharacterist
 ically measured sessions over the course of two years\, the material remai
 ns rooted in improvisation while glistening as the most refined and robust
  in Lattimore’s decade-long catalog. It finds her communing with friends
 \, contemporaries\, and longtime influences\, in full stride yet slowing d
 own to nurture songs in new ways. The cast includes Lol Tolhurst (The Cure
 )\, Meg Baird\, Rachel Goswell (Slowdive)\, Roy Montgomery\, Samara Lubels
 ki\, and Walt McClements.\n\n“When I think of these songs\, I think abou
 t fading flowers in vases\, melted candles\, getting older\, being on tour
  and having things change while you’re away\, not realizing how ephemera
 l experiences are until they don’t happen anymore\, fear for a planet we
 ’re losing because of greed\, an ode to art and music that’s really sh
 aped your life that can transport you back in time\, longing to maintain s
 ensitivity and to not sink into hollow despondency.”\n\nMemories\, scene
 s\, and split-second impressions have long filled Lattimore’s musical un
 iverse. As one of today’s preeminent instrumental storytellers\, she has
  “the uncanny ability to pluck a string in a way that will instantly mak
 e someone remember the taste of their fifth birthday cake\,” writes Pitc
 hfork’s Jemima Skala.\n\nLattimore’s impulse to record life as it happ
 ens matches her drive to travel and perform\, as profiled by Grayson Haver
  Currin for \\*The New York Times\\*: “Lattimore recognized that being i
 n motion shook loose strands of inspiration\, moods she wanted to express 
 with melody. She needed\, then\, to remain on the go.”\n\nThat sense of 
 fluidity has also made her a prolific collaborator outside of solo work. 2
 020’s \\*Silver Ladders\\*\, recorded with Slowdive’s Neil Halstead\, 
 opened the door for Lattimore to widen the vision of her primary project a
 s well\, and its proper follow-up is the natural next scale.\n\n“All of 
 these people I asked to contribute have deeply affected and inspired my li
 fe.”\n\nFor the title and inspiration\, Lattimore’s mind returns to th
 e island of Hvar in Croatia\, where she first saw those silver ladders at 
 the water’s edge.\n\n“There’s a big old hotel there called the Hotel
  Arkada\, and you could tell it had been hosting holiday-goers for decades
  in a great way. I walked around the lobby and the empty ballrooms and it 
 looked like a well-worn\, well-loved place. My friend Stacey who lives the
 re told me to ‘say goodbye to Hotel Arkada\, it might not be here when y
 ou get back’ and I heard soon after that it was actually going to be ren
 ovated in a very crisp\, modern way.”\n\nLattimore became fixated on the
  ingredients that make a place special — for Hotel Arkada\, the patinaed
  chandeliers\, the patterned bedspreads\, the echoes of its intangible cha
 rm — and how when those leave this world\, as they inevitably always wil
 l\, it feels important to memorialize them\, “to bottle it for a brief s
 econd.”\n\n**Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe**\n\nRobert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is an 
 artist\, curator\, and composer who works primarily with\, but is not limi
 ted to\, voice and modular synthesizer for sound in the realm of spontaneo
 us music. Along with analog video synthesis works\, he has brought forth a
 n A/V proposal that has been a focus of live performance and installation/
 exhibition.\n\nThe marriage of synthesis and the voice has allowed for a h
 eightened physicality in the way of ecstatic music\, both in a live settin
 g and recorded. The sensitivity of analogue modular synthesis echoes the o
 rganic nature of vocal expression\, which in this case is meant to put for
 th a trancelike state.\n\nLowe’s works on paper tend towards human relat
 ions to the natural/magical world and the repetition of motifs.\n\nAs of l
 ate\, Robert has also put more focus on composition for film\, both in sol
 o scoring and collaboration. Over the last several years\, Robert has coll
 aborated on projects or provided sound in a featured artist capacity for s
 uch films as \\*End of Summer\\*\, \\*Sicario\\*\, \\*Arrival\\*\, \\*Last
  and First Men\\* with Johann Johannsson\, and \\*It Comes at Night\\* wit
 h Brian McOmber.\n\nRecently\, Robert has scored \\*Il colpo del cane\\* f
 or Fulvio Risuleo\, \\*Candyman\\* for Nia DaCosta\, \\*The Color of Care
 \\* for Yance Ford\, and \\*Master\\* for Mariama Diallo.\n\nOn the subjec
 t of film\, each score is meant to have a very specific voice and sonic pa
 lette\, so each project is approached with clear intention. Creating a uni
 que signature in composition and instrumentation for each film is always m
 ost important.\n\nThrough collaboration\, Robert has worked with Ben Russe
 ll\, Ben Rivers\, Sabrina Ratté\, Rose Lazar\, Nicolas Becker\, Jóhann J
 óhannsson\, Tarek Atoui\, Hildur Guðnadóttir\, Philippe Parreno\, Evan 
 Calder Williams\, Ariel Kalma\, Susie Ibarra\, YoshimiO\, Alexandra Wolkow
 icz\, Biba Bell\, ADULT.\, and Rose Kallal\, as well as many others.\n\n**
 Kelly Kelbel**\n\nKelly Kelbel meditates every morning in bed\, mostly usi
 ng the Happier App. She started meditating shortly after she started chemo
 therapy out of desperation to find relief from her fear. It worked!\n\n\\*
 Chemo Sessions\\* is a project she created to offer support to folks going
  through treatment through a letter\, music\, tips from pals\, and guided 
 meditations.\n\nShe is also a writer and co-owns a synthesizer company\, M
 ake Noise\, in West Asheville. Previously\, she served as a legal advocate
  for survivors of sexual violence in Chicago and youth being tried as adul
 ts in New York City. She was a founding teacher of the School for Democrac
 y and Leadership in Brooklyn\, and directed the Rise Project at Warren Wil
 son College.\n\n**Tony Rolando**\n\nTony Rolando meditates irregularly\, b
 ut notices a benefit every time he does a sit. He often uses the quiet.\n
 \nHe is a self-taught electronic musical instrument designer who got start
 ed by obsessively reading Amateur Radio Relay League books at the public l
 ibrary\, building electronics for artists\, such as the light-controlled r
 emixer for Simon Lee’s “Bus Obscura\,” which debuted at the Whitney 
 Biennial\, working for Moog Music\, and always playing music.\n\nTony has 
 recently released music with Important Records and the Asheville-based Cer
 emony of Seasons. He is the founder\, lead designer\, and co-owner of Make
  Noise.\n\n**Experimental Meditation Club with Kelly Kelbel and Tony Rolan
 do**\n\nWe’ll provide partially guided meditations with sonic accompanim
 ent. Think breaths to let go of tension\, sonic ambiance\, a bit of grief 
 work\, heavy drones\, and psychedelic introspection (without any drugs).\n
 \nWhile everyone is welcome\, this will be tailored to people who:\n\n\\* 
 Are new to meditation and may be skeptical or rekindling a practice\n\n\\*
  Like the company of sonic vibrations\n\n\\* Are open to trying this exper
 iment and okay with it being messy\n\n\\* Want to test their own rigidity 
 and capacity for expansion\n\n\\* Like the idea of democratizing meditatio
 n\n\nWhat to Expect:\n\ninclude some context\, a guided meditation around 
 the theme\, a short conversation (no one is required to talk\, so introver
 ts don’t run away\, please)\, and a longer meditation using only sound.
 \n\n**Katya Lovejoy**\n\nKatya Lovejoy is a hypnotherapist\, mental health
  educator\, and spiritual teacher with a passion for helping people feel f
 ree and empowered to live fully expressed in their authenticity and aliven
 ess. Her deeper mission is to help stop the transmission of generational t
 rauma in families and communities.\n\nAs a descendant of war refugees and 
 immigrants\, and the child of parents with untreated PTSD\, she understand
 s how trauma patterns can be passed down through a family line when healin
 g is left unaddressed.\n\nWhether individual\, collective\, or ancestral\,
  trauma has impacted all of us. Some people are more sensitive to it than 
 others. Trauma can manifest as pain in the mind and body\, ruptures in rel
 ationships\, cracks in the heart\, and patterns of self-sabotage that keep
  us small.\n\nThe scars of our individual struggles can be seen collective
 ly across the Earth. She believes that world peace can only come from a fo
 undation of inner peace. Each of us has the opportunity to take personal r
 esponsibility for freeing ourselves from disempowering narratives\, tendin
 g to our trauma with love\, and choosing to live from a grounded\, heart-c
 entered place.\n\nShe supports her mission of liberating and empowering ot
 hers by working with people individually\, in groups\, and through trainin
 gs and retreats around the world.\n\nBoletos: https://dice.fm/event/6dgd98
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