Mike Tamburo & Stephanie Wood Sound Meditation Duo
Join Mike Tamburo and Stephanie Wood for an explorative sound meditation experience performed on metal instruments and electronics.
About Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood is a sacred and therapeutic sound practitioner, a sound artist, educator and healing justice activist. With a plethora of gongs and other instruments she incorporates surrounding soundscape, silence, and collective participation. Some sound sessions center harmony, healing, creativity and connection. Others center in the weird and wonderful experimental world. Stephanie is a former composer and orchestrator for Guru Gayatri equinox & solstice events. She’s engaged in diverse collaborations including Seattle’s DAIPANbutoh and various experimental ambiences.
Stephanie strongly believes in the power of creating spaces for "radical respite", individual and collective resilience. She always enjoys co-creating soul-full spaces with new people and new visions. She’ll take any opportunity to make gongs and immersive sonic experiences more accessible.
Pauline Oliveros is her “patron saint” of sonic awareness. Email katrin2112@gmail.com for sound sessions and/or to collaborate.
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Mike Tamburo is a world-renowned musician, composer, artist and educator. He is known and loved for his transformational live concerts performed on his personally curated set of gongs, bells and other metal instruments.
A lifelong multi-instrumentalist, Tamburo has focused his talents on metal percussion instruments, string instruments (hammered dulcimer, guitar, zither, shahi baaja), as well as electronic instruments (synths, looping).
Since 1994, Tamburo has shared more than 2,000 concerts and workshops. He has recorded over 70 albums, both solo and in collaboration with Crown of Eternity, Meisha, Arco Flute Foundation, Psychic Frost, Brother Ong and more, ranging from epic gong music to ecstatic and transcendental string music, as well as folk, drone, space rock, ambient, mantra music and sometimes unclassifiable sounds. This man loves music in all its forms!
He teaches gong music, both in person and online with School of Gong. He is also a part of the far-reaching ethnomusicology trio, Dig Deeper, with Mitch Nur and Thomas Orr Anderson. Their online classes have explored countless musical concepts with a focus on the cultural and personal uses of sound for healing, meditation, trance, ecstatic states, relaxation, self transformation, perception, psycho-acoustics, scientific discovery, time and community.
An early adoptee of meditation, Tamburo’s music offers space for journeying, self-exploration and deep introspection. During many of his early performances, he experienced altered states of consciousness and out of body experiences. To understand these experiences, he explored kundalini yoga, energy work, the therapeutic use of sound and how sound impacts consciousness, human perception and self healing. His love for long sustained drones, overtones and psychoacoustics continues to inspire him to explore music in further directions.
Tamburo is also an interdisciplinary sound artist, instrument builder, video artist, sound therapist, writer and meditation teacher.