Coming up! Seattle Workshop and Concert Week in Collaboration with Anaïs Maviel
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Anaïs Maviel (NYC/France) and Aquiestoy (Carlos Snaider, Seattle) are two sound experimentalists who connect though shared values in listening and vital presence in relation to sound and music-making. They are coming together for one workshop and one double-bill concert only in Seattle at the Royal Room to share songs that are rooted in groove, storytelling, Caribbean aesthetics and vibratory principles of harmony.
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World.Sound.Presence - Aquiestoy (quartet) and Anaïs Maviel
Thursday, October 16th
doors 6:30pm | show 7:30pm
The Royal Room Seattle
5000 Rainier Ave S. Seattle, WA
Follow this link for the Royal Room event page!
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"The Art of Listening" Workshop (two days before the concert)
Tuesday, October 14th 5-9pm
Cedar Tea House, 4419 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA
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About "The Art of Listening"
From deep within to far outward, listening gives us access to vibrational awareness. From this place, one's unique sound can be expressed and heard. This intimate 4-hour workshop, open to all, is an intensive that includes practical tools for accessing and activating ones personal energy and vibratory attunement as expressed through sound and the voice, and extending beyond into life/wellness practices for creative longevity. Carlos and Anaïs draw from their personal creative practices of harmonic singing, rhythm play, inward and outward listening, improvisation, and embodiment exercises for joy and vitality. Grounded in ancestral spiritual embodiment practices, we'll explore ways to align with one's truthful tone, and apply our findings to the micro <> macro laboratory of harmonic singing.
We are collaborating with the Cedar Tea House, a new "sobriety-friendly space in the South End that prioritizes nurturing community, wellness, and creativity" (South Seattle Emerald). Tea and food will be served in a private setting (the shop will remain closed), allowing for exploration of sound and expression in a safe and controlled space.
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Donation: $50-70 sliding scale. All proceeds support real, independent artists supporting community activations through their work!
RSVP at carlossnaidermusic [at] gmail [dot] com, or via the contact page.
All participants will receive a $10 discount code on tickets for the Thursday concert.
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About the Artists
Anaïs Maviel is an artist, vocalist, composer & multi-instrumentalist dedicated to translating spiritual concepts to sensory experiences, using sound as medicine & alchemy. With traditional and experimental approaches, her works investigate the power of sound to shape reality, and emphasize the relevance of cultural hybridity. She navigates song, choral, instrumental, orchestral music and staging with a strong connection to cosmologies of sound and speech rooted in oral traditions such as mantra and ring shout. She strives to bridge the gaps between genres & to create a diverse, inclusive, yet sacred musical experience. Among her music collaborators, Alarm Will Sound, Craig Taborn, The Rhythm Method, Meshell Ndegeocello, Meredith Monk, Aruán Ortiz & William Parker. Anaïs facilitates vocal liberation with a focus on the body, its environmental, archetypal and cosmic resonances.
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Aquiestoy (Seattle, USA) Guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and facilitator. Practitioner of Ay Ombe Performance Autology© (creative process based on the autobiography of the doer). Aquiestoy (I be here) is the name of his personal creative laboratory and latest music project of Carlos Snaider. Of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian descent, Carlos's songwriting and performances seek to create new sounds that harmonize inner and outer environments. Bands include Earthtoneskytone, Eléré, and Star Gondola. As a facilitator, Carlos explores creative wellness through a variety of wellness tools that he maintains to live as a independent artist, including theatre exercises, martial arts, rhythm play, silence, and home wellness practices.