Join vibraphonist Chris Dingman and ritualist Zaneta for an evening of immersive channeled sound journeying, guided meditation, reflection, relaxation, inspiration, and community to start off the New Year.
Allow the waves of vibration to wash over you, with transcendent sounds that transport you to a beautiful place, where healing and connection can happen.
Chris plays the vibraphone, a beautiful and unique instrument with a complex and ethereal sound. With a virtuosic, one-of-a-kind approach to the instrument, Chris has a singular way of playing using waves and layers of sound that bring the listener deeper and deeper into the journey. He enters a trance state, channeling music that has the ability to bring listeners along into an altered or heightened state where healing, connection, visions, and inspiration can occur.
You may find yourself going into a deepening state of relaxation, of increasing purification, or even an internal journey that unfolds like a dream. Frequently listeners report a change in their perception of time during this experience. Hope is a major theme in Chris’s channeled work and listeners often find themselves leaving sessions surprisingly rejuvenated, centered, and with new perspectives, as well as feeling more grounded and relaxed.
This journey offers the potential to access inner wisdom, spiritual guidance, and a state of transcendence, as well as physical relaxation. Other benefits to the body and mind may include reduced stress, pain reduction, physical and emotional healing, a clearer mind, easier decision-making, expanded creativity, better sleep, and more.
We welcome you to join us and start the New Year off in sacred community at Center Street.
What to expect from this experience:
- A warm welcome at the door
- Cushions and back-jacks will be provided
- You will be invited to set intentions for the session and find a comfortable position
- Zaneta will guide the group into grounded, centered sacred communal space, and into a meditation that opens the group into and weaves with the listening experience
- Chris will play a 60-minute immersive channeled sound journey, using vibraphone and vocals
- As the journey comes toward its end, Zaneta will gently and skillfully guide the group back into physical awareness and close the meditation with an invitation to reflect on the experience, noting new perspectives, guidance, or anything else that comes up
- We will close with a brief sharing time and thank you
- You will be welcome to stay for an optional, post-event social hour with like-minded, open-hearted community
Chris Dingman
An acclaimed musician of many genres, Chris has been performing on the vibraphone for 25+ years, including with celebrated masters Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and many others. He brings together this background with a host of studies and influences from around the world, in service of taking listeners on a journey to a transcendent place.
While he trained and practiced in the fields of jazz, experimental, and world music, Chris’s trajectory changed when, in 2018, his father entered hospice. Chris played and recorded meditative music as an act of care for him in his final months of life. This music became the 5-hour extended album Peace.
Since then, Chris has brought his special brand of healing music journeys far and wide, from live sessions at Omega Institute and The Rubin Museum of Art to his online series Transformations, his work as sonic shaman with the Psychedelic Sangha, music for mediumship circles, and much more. His critically acclaimed albums Journeys vol. 1 and vol. 2, are described by The New York Times as “hypnotizing.”
Chris has presented talks and performances at the Gold Foundation Conference on Humanism in Medicine, the American College of Physicians, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NYC), Orlando Health, and written for the Johns Hopkins Medicine blog. He has been profiled by NPR, the New York Times, AMNY, and many other publications, and has received fellowships and grants from Chamber Music America, New Music USA, South Arts, and the Thelonious Monk Institute.
Zaneta
Drawing upon a deep connection to the body, memory, spirit, and the land, Zaneta’s (they/them) art is a process of remembering our interconnectedness or the Filipinx term, kapwa. in a society of fragmentation, we are taught to forget our connection to the land and our inherent sacredness that comes with our existence in an interconnected world. it is towards this remembrance, that Zaneta directs their work, weaving field recording, ritual, channeling, and listening practice, to create performance experiences that are equal parts prayer, journey, and healing.
living with PTSD, Zaneta’s work with sound is deeply informed by their research and personal journey with sound triggers. specifically exploring the connection between sound and memory, and how the body orients itself in time and space through listening. reflecting on their own sound triggers led Zaneta to explore field recording as a process of healing. ultimately discovering how field recording offers agency to those with PTSD and how listening to back to recordings can be a process of titration in a controlled environment, so that over time, sound triggers can change and a constructive relationship between body and memory can be nurtured.
as an intuitive interdisciplinary artist living in the Diaspora, Zaneta works not only with sound art, but also utilizes ritual as a creative process. specifically how field recording is a ritualistic process of building a relationship of reciprocity with the land. by connecting to the land, asking consent, and giving offerings prior to recording, the act of field recording becomes rooted in the traditions of babaylan and ecological frameworks from the islands known as the Philippines.
together with ritual and somatic listening, Zaneta’s work invites participants to explore the sonic-somatic connections the body holds to the natural world, actively helping participants to re-engage with their inner and outer wilderness.
Zaneta currently lives and creates on Lenni Lenape territory, offering community listening rituals, as well as listening and sound workshops in spaces such as the Brooklyn Museum and online. in 2020, their project, Sacred Seasons, won the Brooklyn Arts Fund grant and was co-presented with the New Women Space. they hike and solo camp throughout the Catskills and Adirondack regions recording the wilderness and exploring the process of building a loving relationship with the land. as a community spiritual worker and host of the Art Witch podcast, Zaneta is connected to a vibrant community of queer, multiracial creatixes and healers, and their podcast empowers listeners around the world to make their art and find their authentic expression.