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Heart Sutra and Nokyo Reciting

共鳴般若：心經與Nokyo唱誦工作坊

a modern way to receive the blessings of reciting

透過念誦獲得祝福的一種現代方法

Mark 談他的Nokyo’s：

自2022年底以來，我幾乎每天都寫一篇「Nokyo」，這是從日本的經文或經典（okyo）衍生而來的。心經無疑是最著名的經文範例。這些誦經以多種方式激活身心：它們共鳴，調節呼吸，跟隨各種節奏模式，並逐漸深入我們的內在。有些誦經富有挑戰性且速度快，另一些則非常緩慢：就像把一個稜鏡放在你的聲音周圍，以聽、看和感受它的所有色彩。

在一天之內，你將體驗念誦、吟誦和唱誦的全然效果，而不必擔心這些文本是否符合你的宗教信仰。意義在非話語的層面上產生，或者根本不再重要。這裡有很多空間來了解身體化知識和非二元性。

在早晨，我們用輕柔的練習來準備身體、心靈和聲音。我們喚醒感官，放鬆那些僵硬或堵塞的通道。逐漸地，我們將聲音和波動的能量置於舞台中央。從那裡開始，我們探索Nokyo：你將會收到一本包含挑選過的Nokyo的小工作手冊（包含在工作坊內）。我們將從一些非常簡單的念誦開始，逐步發現更多的可能性。在一天結束時，你將掌握許多Mark的Nokyo唱誦的基本步驟。我們最後會組成小組，自行選擇並誦讀你所選的Nokyo。

【其他人怎麼說】

Nokyo唱誦已經被介紹到幾個身心工作者的團體中。他們認為這是一個幫助他們的身心工作擴展到聲音領域的非常有用的方式。某工作坊主持人如此描述這種體驗：

「一年前，Mark van Tongeren 來到我們學校，給我們進行泛音唱法的實踐介紹。一天結束時，他為我們的學校介紹了一個Nokyo，供我們吟誦。在去年秋天的葡萄牙僻靜營，我們探索了這個Nokyo。當大家作為一個團體一起吟誦時，可以聽到層次分明的聲音合而為一，形成一種空間感的體驗。此外，也有許多個體層次的經驗。例如，它會促使身體釋放緊張感，特別是在喉嚨後方沿著脊椎的部位。對於那些不習慣唱歌、平時只是用聲音進行日常溝通和分享訊息的人來說，這是一個非常寶貴的機會，可以遠離常規、發現自己獨特的聲音，並作為一種與手臂和手的動作密切相連的表達方式，因此也與肩頸有關聯。」

 

【時間】

2024年10月25日 10:00-18:00

【行程】

10:00 – 10:15 抵達

10:15 – 11:15 暖身、聲身共鳴練習

11:15 – 12:15 心經與Nokyo唱誦 I： 如何讀或念誦Nokyo?

12.15 – 13.45 午餐時間

13:45 – 16:00 熱身，Nokyo唱誦 II：「365 函節奏」

16:00 – 16:30 點心時間

16:30 – 18:00 Nokyo唱誦 III：其他詮釋方法&咒語創造

Q＆A

【地點】

Rama Ramo （位於台北士林）

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Rama Ramo 是一個非常棒的靜謐之地，俯瞰著無盡的陽明山森林。這個地方自然而然地將你帶回到內心更為寧靜的部分，正是我們通過唱誦所追尋的狀態。

【誰適合參加？】

沒有任何限制！

【語言】

英文以及中文即席翻譯

【帶領者介紹】

Mark van Tongeren 是一位聲音探索者，對藝術、科學和靜修傳統的交互作用有著深厚的興趣。Mark 在戲劇、音樂和舞蹈製作領域擁有超過30年的經驗，並擁有萊頓大學創意與表演藝術學院的博士學位。他練習瑜伽已有約25年，並在大約12年前創立了一種結合藝術表演工具的瑜伽形式。自少年時期以來，他便開始嘗試、研究並參與多種聲音、音樂和表演實踐，並不斷擴展他的「聲音詞彙」。對他音樂和思想影響深遠的是多媒體藝術家 Michael Vetter（1943-2013），Vetter 曾在日本擔任多年禪僧。1990年代初，Mark 開始接觸 Vetter 對日本經文（「okyo」）誦經的激進重新詮釋。

【團隊】

本次工作坊還由即席翻譯兼共同籌辦者者李紀辰協助，她負責聲音工作坊的翻譯，並受聲音的啟發，繼續探索相關領域；以及行政助理張惜音協辦，本身也是聲音療癒師，熱愛唱歌和創作音樂。

報名、詢問工作坊詳情，歡迎聯繫惜音 hsiyin724@gmail.com

【報名費用】

全額費用：6000元

早鳥優惠 / 75折：4500元 （截止日期：9月29日，星期日）

提前報名 / 9折：5400元 （截止日期：10月18日，星期五）

TOSA會員 / 85折：5100元

舊生優惠/7折：4200元（截止日期：10月10日，星期四）

學生；經濟方面需要支持的藝術家（需提供證明） / 75折：4500元

雙人報名 / 95折：每人5700元

費用包含

  • 含約20篇Nokyo的小冊，您可以帶回家練習。
  • 點心
  • 如果您希望提前到達，我們可在約9:30提供從士林捷運站接送服務。

 

費用不包含

  • 午餐
  • 附近沒有餐館，所以請大家自備食物；現場有簡單的廚房可供使用。您可以帶上自己的食物，或帶一些與大家分享。

【報名方式】

1.請透過此連結報名

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2.確認報名費用後，請在三天內進行學費匯款

3.匯款完成後，請聯絡

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【取消政策】
我們盡量保持合理的價格。如果您在課程開始前31至60天取消報名，我們將退還90%的費用。如果您在課程開始前15至30天取消報名，我們將退還50%的費用。如果您在課程開始前14天內取消報名，我們將退還20%的費用。如果您找人代替參加，我們只收取10%的行政費。

 

【有問題嗎？】
請隨時與我們聯繫！

 

【責任歸屬】

報名此工作坊代表你了解:

1) 工作坊可能會有劇烈肢體運動，引起身體跟心理的衝擊。

2) 工作坊中的每項活動都不是強制性的，你必須衡量自身狀況(身體/心理/情緒)來決定要不要參與。

3) 你會對自己的身體及心理狀態負責，主辦方不承擔任何相關的傷害、損失及賠償責任。

 

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Mark about his nokyo’s:

Almost every day since the end of 2022 I write a nokyo, which is derived from Japanese okyo’s, or sutra’s. The Heart Sutra is by far the most famous example of an okyo. These recitations activate body-mind in many ways: they resonate, regulate the breathing following all kinds of rhythmic patterns, and gradually sink down deeper into our being. Some are challenging and fast, others extremely slow: as if you put a prism around your voice to hear, to see and to feel all its colours.

During one day you get to know the wholesome effect of reciting, singing-speaking and chanting, without having to worry if the texts fit into your religious convictions or not. Meanings arise on a non-discursive level or are simply not relevant anymore. There is much space for getting to know embodied knowledge and non-duality.

In the morning we prepare body, mind and voice with gentle exercises. We awaken our senses and soften the channels that are rigid or blocked. Gradually we put the voice and energies of vibration centre stage. From there we start exploring the written nokyo’s: you receive a small workbook with a selection of nokyo’s (included in the workshop). We will start with some very easy nokyo’s and gradually discover more possibilities. By the end of the day you have a good grasp of many of the basic procedures or Mark’s nokyo reciting. We finish by making small groups and chosing nokyo’s that you select yourself.

WHAT OTHERS SAY:

Nokyo chanting has been introduced to several schools of practitioners, who find it a very useful expansion into the sonic realm of their body-mind pratices. One workshop hostess described the experience as follows:

One year ago Mark van Tongeren visited the school to give a practical introduction on overtone singing. At the end of the day he presented our school an Okyo for chanting. This Okyo we explored in chanting during the retreat in Portugal last Autumn. There was the spatial experience in chanting, hearing the layers of sound unified when chanting as a group. And there were many more individual experiences. Like how it provokes in the body a release of tension specially from the back of the throat along the spine. Or for those not used to singing and using the voice other than for daily communication and sharing of information it was very valuable to discover the own unique voice free from conventions and as a means of expression closely connected to the hands and arm movements, and therefor also the neck and shoulders.

 

DATE & TIME

Friday October 25

10:00 – 18:00

TIME SCHEDULE

10:00 – 10:15 arrival

10:15 – 11:15 warming up, vocal-body resonance

11:15 – 12:15 Heart Sutra & Nokyo Chanting Part I: How to Read or Recite Nokyos?

12.15 – 13.45 lunch break

13:45 – 16:00 Warmup; Nokyo Chanting Part II: the ‘365 Algorhythms’

16:00 – 16:30 tea time

16:30 – 18:00 Nokyo Chanting Part III: other interpretations & creations.

Q＆A

 

 

LOCATION

At Rama Ramo, Shiling, Taipei

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Rama Ramo is a fantastic quiet place overlooking endless Yangmingshan forests. It naturally brings you back to the serener part of self that we seek with our chanting.

If weather allows, we can go to a spring nearby at walking distance and practise some of our recitations next to the flowing water!

FOR WHOM

No restrictions

 

LANGUAGES


English + Chinese

YOUR TEACHER

Mark van Tongeren is a sound explorer with a deep interest in the synergy of arts, sciences and contemplative traditions. Mark has over 30 years of experience in theatre, music and dance productions and holds a PhD from Leiden University’s Academy of Creative and Performing Arts. He practices yoga for some 25 years, created a form of yoga that integrates artistic-performative tools about 12 years ago. He has played and experimented with and studied numerous kinds of voice / music & performance practices since he was a teenager and continues to expand his ‘voca-bulary’. A great influence on his music and thinking was multi-medial artist Michael Vetter (1943-2013), who spend many years as a Zen monk in Japan. In the early 1990s Mark became acquainted with Vetter’s radical reinterprations of Japanese sutra (‘okyo’) recitations.

SUPPORTING TEAM & CONTACT

 

This workshop is also brought to you by interpreter and co-organiser Chi Chen Lee, who interprets for sound workshops and is inspired by sound to continue the exploration; by administrative assistant Hsi-Yin Chang, who is also a sound and wellness practitioner, with an interest in singing and creating music.

▲ For any questions about the contents and registration, please contact Hsi Yin (speaks Chinese and English):

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PRICING

Full price: 6000

Early Bird / 25% off: 4500 (last day: Sunday September 29)

Students & poor struggling artist (all with proof) / 25% off (until September 29): 4500

Advance registration / 10% off: 5400 (last day: Friday October 18)

TOSA members / 15% off: 5100

Bring a friend/ 5% off: 5700 per person

Included:

Workbook with about 20 nokyo’s that you can take home to practise

Snacks

For those wishing to arrive early we can offer a ride from the nearest MRT station at around 9:30.

Not included:

Lunch.

There are no eateries nearby, so everyone can bring something to eat ; a simple kitchen is available. Please bring your own or bring something to share in the potlatch.

REGISTRATION and PAYMENT

  1. Sign up through this form: https://form.jotform.com/242612129392353

  2. Make a transfer within 3 days and contact Hsi-Yin via email (hsiyin724@gmail.com)

  3. We will confirm with you within 5 working days that you have completed the registration!

Please make the transfer to: 

Bank code: 822.

Name of bank: China Trust

Beneficiary: Mark Christiaan van Tongeren

Account number: 163540306745

CANCELLATION POLICY


We try to keep prices reasonable. We will return 90% of the fee if you cancel 31 – 60 days prior to the workshop. We will return 50% of the fee if you cancel 30 – 15 days prior to the workshop. We will return 20% of the fee if you cancel within 14 days prior to the workshop. If you find a substitute for your place, we will only keep 10% of the administration fee.

QUESTIONS?

Get in touch with one of us!

DISCLAIMER

By signing up you automatically acknowledge your understanding that this workshop may involve potentially disrupting body-work and emotionally charged sessions with a deep impact on your well-being. It is understood that you yourself best know of any risks (physical, emotional, psychological) and that there is no pressure or obligation to do each and every exercise.

O TRIOM remembers Michael Vetter

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During one of my concerts in Taucha, Germany, last month, I asked the audience who knows the name Michael Vetter. Several people raised their hands. But as I expected, many people at the Ancient Trance Festival don’t know his name. Of course, quite a few more may have heard his music in the Age of Spotify: you listen but don’t know what album is playing, now that a physical relationship to the medium (as in the time of LPs, CDs) is outdated. Besides, Ancient Trance is not exactly overlapping with Vetter’s artistic direction. He was much more avant-garde, with musical influences from Baroque to Dada and Fluxus, and a host of visual influences, from mediaeval religious painting and Chinese calligraphy to comics.

In the next few weeks O TRIOM is looking back at the life and work of the instrumentalist, vocalist, painter, poet, pedagogue and ordained Zen master Michael Vetter (1943-2013). We will be showing how his legacy continues to inspire, inform and transform our performing today in several concerts, a lecture and workshops. Why? Certainly not because Vetter was such a fine overtone singer. There are and have been many fine overtone singers, and Vetter’s style of singing and performing was one of many – not ‘just’ one of many, but a very influential one, to be sure. In the 1980s, anyone wanting to do something with overtone singing went to Vetter’s workshops and bought his albums, at least in very active German-speaking areas (and The Netherlands too). Vetter set certain standards for overtone singing, for a certain period of time, and those standards hardly changed.

 

Michael Vetter making Indian ink drawings, Academia Caparaia, Italy, 2009. (Photograph Mark van Tongeren under protection of Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND)

The interest of O TRIOM in Vetter also started with overtone singing, but soon branched out in many other directions. For example: Vetter as a typical Zen Buddhist. He insists again and again that one should give undivided attention to what one is doing when making music (or anything else, though he would not talk about anything, but about art). And he applied this attitude in all his music, and all his other creative work, as well as his cooking and everyday life. When I read and re-read his texts, or when I go through the conversations we had and the interviews I did with him, I frequently stumble upon contradictions (literally: ‘counter-speaking’) concerning his spiritual or religious outlook. You may be looking to clarify his positions towards spiritual questions, and find that he has much to say about that. Many people felt he was a very religious person and his biography testifies to that. Certainly a believer! But then you will sooner or later find a remark in which he warns for overzealous religious interpretations. “Here and there one learns about the connection between overtones and Our Lord. That is far removed from me!” And yet, many of his art and music works bear very clear Christian (and not just Zen) elements.

It seems that it does not make sense. And that is exactly what we can take away from Michael Vetter (or maybe from Zen in general), and what keeps me coming back to him for fresh insights: there is no single, or final way to talk about or do anything. There are only temporarily, or partially ‘true’ or ‘convincing’ arguments to believe, or positions to take. As soon as one clings too much to certain truths, it is time to let it go again and look for yet another perspective .

In the weeks to come we will prepare ourselves with this in mind: try as best as you can to follow certain aesthetic and creative paths, and be always willing to throw them overboard again and replace them with something new. I am excited about this moment in our O TRIOM collaboration, which began in early 2022, if I remember well. And I salute the brilliant artist who bridged so many visions and visuals, sounds and musics, thoughts and dreams in a lifetime bursting with creative output.

 

Read an earlier post about why we should remember Michael Vetter here.

 

 

PROGRAM

 

Lecture Transverbal

Time: 6th October (Friday) 2023, 19:00-21:30

Location: Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre, 2rd floor

Speaker: prof. CHUNG Mingder (Department of Theatre Arts, TNUA), Mark van Tongeren, LU Qi Chung, LEE Wei Lin

 

Workshop Michael Vetter’s Overtone Singing Methods

Time: 13th October (Friday) 2023, 10:00-17:00

Location: Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre, 3rd floor

Facilitator: LU Qi Chung, LEE Wei Lin

 

Workshop OKYO

Time: 17th October (Tuesday) 2023, 10:00-17:00

Location: Guling Street Avant-garde Theatre 3rd floor

Facilitator: Mark van Tongeren

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REGISTER HERE FOR WORKSHOPS AND LECTURE

Overtone Singing Concert for Michael Vetter

21st October (Saturday) 2023, 19:00

22nd October (Sunday) 2023, 14:00

Location: Dreamphony Hall (No. 59, Lane 97, Guangrong Rd, Luzhou District, New Taipei City, Taiwan 247)

FOR CONCERT TICKETS

CLICK HERE

 

 

O TRIOM Artists

LEE Wei Lin

LU Qi Chung

Mark van Tongeren

Production

Organizer| Taiwan Overtone Singing Association TOSA
Executive Producer  | Lee Chichen
Visual Design  | Bai Chi Hao
Image source | Michael Vetter

Lecture| prof. CHUNG Mingder

Taiwan Overtone Singing Association is also on Facebook.

Photos from a 2014 concert by O TRIOM

 

 

 

 

 

O TRIOM 紀念米歇爾·費特大師 系列泛音講座、工作坊暨音樂會

 

【講座】《Transverbal穿越言語》與大師相遇

時間 2023/10/6（五） 19:00-21:30

地點 牯嶺街小劇場二樓藝文空間

講者 鍾明德教授（北藝大戲劇系）、Mark van Tongeren、呂啓仲、李維琳

與談者將說談泛音音樂在台灣發展的故事，從當年北藝大邀請國外泛音音樂家來台傳藝及演出，到《OM泛唱作為藝乘》一書的誕生，泛音藝術家米歇爾・費特大師的生平創作故事，及至往後泛音音樂在台灣生根2022年台灣泛音詠唱協會TOSA的成立。

＊同場放映呂啓仲拍攝之泛音藝術家費特大師來台紀錄片《Transverbal穿越語言的相遇》。

 

 

 

【工作坊】「米歇爾．費特的泛音詠唱法門」

時間 2023/10/13（五） 10:00-17:00

地點 牯嶺街小劇場三樓排練場

講師 呂啓仲、李維琳

｜工作坊內容｜

介紹「泛音唱法」，引領學員如何唱和體驗泛音，藉由唱出和聽到泛音，踏上精神的探險之旅。

 

 

 

【工作坊】「大師OKYO唱誦」工作坊

時間 2023/10/17（二） 10:00-17:00

地點 牯嶺街小劇場三樓排練場

講師 Mark van Tongeren

 

本工作坊將概述 Michael Vetter 的創作生涯，觀察他的作品中音樂/聲音和禪宗幾個主題，以及 20 世紀 90 年代及之後歐洲對禪宗日益增長的興趣如何與費特的作品呼應，以及他如何自由地採用“okyo”並對其進行改造。並一起唱送費特的okyo以及馬克本身創作的365則向費特致敬的 okyo。

點此報名工作坊＆講座

O TRIOM 米歇爾‧費特大師 紀念音樂會

 

時間：

2023/10/21  六 19:00

2023/10/22 日  14:00

 

地點：

夢響廳 Dreamphony Hall

新北市蘆洲區光榮路97巷59號

**捷運蘆洲站步行約5分鐘**

演出者：Mark van Tongeren．呂啓仲．李維琳

三位聲音表演者以跨越言語的表達探索人聲表現的邊界，以他們的人聲演唱以及器樂聲響，延展意義能夠被接收及傳達的邊界，每位聽者能以個人的想像穿越這場聲音表情與意義的互動。

人聲聲音的深深冥想，耳朵為覺察細緻的泛音而內在油然寧靜下來。

踏上一場聲音旅程，深入聲響的世界以及內在生命。人聲與物質物件的探索，不停變化的聲音風景，多層次且豐富，人聲騎乘在器樂的聲響上遨遊，深入潛出，引領聽者進入集體聽覺意識的深處。人聲的合聲搭建起一個強力的通道，彷彿直通天廳的音柱，他們聲音的通道能讓聽者通往似曾相識又聞所未聞得疆域。

OKYO詩文唱誦，極簡而留白，這是泛音音樂傳承的其一精神支脈。本演出亦是對開創性的德國藝術家、作家、教育家米歇爾·費特（Michael Vetter，1943-2013）的生平及創作致敬，他將所有作品的總體概念命名為《Transverbal》—穿越言語。

 音樂會購票點此 

 

 

 

O TRIOM 演出者

李維琳
呂啓仲
Mark van Tongeren 馬克・范・湯可鄰

製作團隊

主辦單位| |台灣泛音詠唱協會

執行製作  | 李紀辰

視覺設計 |  白濟豪

圖片來源 | Michael Vetter

講座講者| 鍾明德教授

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Read an earlier post about why we should remember Michael Vetter here.

 

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HYPNOKYO

or how to combine the art of writing meaningful non-sense texts with hypnosis methods

 

Next week I am teaching a group of hypnosis students in Taipei. They are the students of a man who goes by the nickname of La Mian (ramen, or Japanese thick noodles) who is specialized in hypnosis and teaches and applies it in a wide range of methods. He came to my workshop Ocean of Voices recently, a 3-day exploration of the richness of musical traditions around the world (focusing on the voice). We had several amazing sessions where everyone went through his or her own transformations while singing, chanting, drumming, playing, or just listening to everyone else. Paths to change the body, change the mind and empower your creative imagination through the voice: a dynamic key or bridge that sits in between the body and mind, working its logical and illogical ways in both directions.

 

 

Photos taken during the Oceaen of Voices of workshop in Nantou, Taiwan. Above, La Mian with the Bunun people from XinYi. Below, session during the workshop.

 

You could call the logical part the verbal: the voice as speech, as reason and gossip.

You could call the illogical part transverbal: the voice as sound and music, as noise and non-sense.

 

Transverbal is a term Michael Vetter coined to group together, and give purpose to, his vast corpus of creative work, in music, in visual arts, in writing. It led, among other things, to his writing of okyo’s, which is Japanese for sutras. His sutras were not Buddhist texts, but used the sounds of the Japanese language as a template from which he created ‘texts’ without meaning. It was not merely a capricious thing, a joke, or an anti-religious sentiment. Vetter was serious about it. He had practised chanting and reciting actual sutras for year after year during his 13 year stay in Japan, going about the streets begging for alms or performing ceremonial. But, in a true Zen vein, he would not eschew the occasional humorous twist in his own okyos either.

 

I got to know Michael Vetter’s okyos in the mid 1990s and was impressed with their form and sound and Vetter’s precise reasoning for why he created them. Later I began to write my own occasional okyos. Last year I decided to write an okyo every day for one year, to commemorate Michael’s birth (in 1943) and passing (in 2013), now eighty and ten years ago. I shape these okyos, naturally, but they also shape me, and invite me or teach me to push for new ideas about sound, language and symbol. Here is one example which I will take to the Hypnokyo workshop:

 

 

Here is another one

And here is one that you can listen to in the video, below:

So next week my okyos are going to be tested by students of hypnosis. They learn a range of sounding techniques that could enhance or expand their hypnosis practise. I am really looking forward to see what they will do with it, and hope I can be their guinea pig to test the efficacy of the okyos. Not long ago, hypnosis was regarded as somewhat occult, esoteric and strange. In recent years it has become more widely accepted and it began to loose its strangeness in public opinion. The approach now seems to be more practical: it is yet another way for us – complicated, sensitive and often limited and hyperrational human beings – to understand the mysteries of life and self, and to make sense of the world around us in new, more attuned ways.

 

You can enjoy listening to one of my okyos in this video (thanks to Sky for editing).

And I will read this week’s episode of one of my favorite newsletters, which happens to be devoted to clinical hypnosis.

Vetter-Transverbal Workshop (1-day Taipei)

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This one-day workshop introduces the work of the influential musician-painter-poet-thinker Michael Vetter. He developed many tools to let students enter into a direct, open dialoge with art and creative processes. Combined with his well-informed reflections about art and spirituality, Vetter’s method makes music and visual arts accessible to many people, with or without an ‘art’ background. Very few artists cover the width and depth as Vetter does, while still being able to teach and inspire anyone from layman to professionals.

Michael Vetter (1943-2013) is probably best known as an overtone singer, but he spend at least as much time as an instrumentalist, painter, poet/writer, visual artist and educator. His life and work defied boundaries. He spent 13 years in Japan, pursuing intensive zen studies with two roshis (1970-1983). He visited Taiwan two times, exhibiting and creating new works, performing and teaching.

Vetter’s method makes music and visual arts accessible to many people, with or without an ‘art’ background. To continue Vetter’s line of creating and understanding art after his passing away in 2013, this workshop will introduce his methods to those who do not know him and go deeper for those who already know his work. The emphasis lies on practical, hands-on experience and getting a feeling for the overall, underlying connections between different art forms.

Program
The day is divided in four parts, which will be woven together to show how they are linked in Vetter’s integral approach to art, called Transverbal.

Heart sutra:    The Hannya shingyo according to Michael Vetter.
Okyo:            Vetter’s approach to the Japanese approach to Indian Buddhist mantras. A practical exploration of transmutations.
Voice:            What is the voice? how can it teach us? Some of Vetter’s answers in theory, but as always practice comes first.
Lines:            Drawing lines, and understanding what simple lines can tell us about art and life. Bring paper and some colour pencils/pens.

 

For whom:        Individuals interested in creative processes (visual, musical), as well as creative professionals seeking to deepen their skills and understanding of the arts. Motivation to try out new things is essential, skills are not essential.
Language:        English (with Chinese translation)
Date/Time        Sunday December 20, 10 AM until 5 PM. Lunch on your own (1-2PM).
Place:            Canjune Training Center
Price:             1800 NT$
Discounts:        students 20% (bring your ID)
Participants:     (min.) 8 – 20 (max.)

 

Info/registration
Interested? Get more inquiries from Mark (info@fusica.nl) or Yvonne (chichenlyv@gmail.com) or just register and we’ll send you the payment details. Call us at 0910382749 (Mark) / 0933178272 (Yvonne).