Read arts writer Cate McQuaid’s touching article about RADIO SILENCE for Ocean in a Drop.

Alternative Book Launch to benefit The Children’s Room in Arlington, MA

Living in Your Wilderness

July 16, 2022
8PM

LIVE EVENT

FIRST CHURCH of JAMAICA PLAIN

In the GRAVEYARD at 6 ELIOT STREET in JP

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8pm DEEP LISTENING SOUND PRACTICE with Deb Todd Wheeler
8:30pm OUTDOOR MOVIE SCREENING of LIVING IN YOUR WILDERNESS,
an exploration of the wildernesses we create for ourselves, featuring musicians and artists
Deniz Khateri, Jascha Narveson, Deb Todd Wheeler, composer Reena Esmail, composer/electric guitarist Aaron Jay Myers, vocals Danielle Pinals, Tyler Russell, & Andrew Wheeler, bassist and vocals Terrance Reeves, drummer Daniel T. Lewis, cellist Lev Mamuya, bass clarinetist Kevin Price, mandolin player Brian Potts, and NewGal Director & pianist Sarah Bob.

With ICE CREAM thanks to JP Licks!

Bring your family, your leashed dog, your picnic basket, blanket, folding chair, or just yourselves. Excited to see you!

New Gallery Concert Series in partnership with Longy School of Music of Bard College

Embracing the Light: An Afternoon Solstice Meditation

Presented by Mount Auburn Cemetery, created and curated by MASARY Studios

2pm Deep Listening

Deb Todd Wheeler will facilitate a Deep Listening meditation as part of the Summer Solstice event, a collaboration between MASARY Studios and Mount Auburn Cemetery (580 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138) on the afternoon of June 21, 2022. This event will take place rain or shine - outdoors in ‘Hazel Dell’, off of Central Ave in the Cemetery, or inside of Story Chapel.

This event is a meditation on light, that is a nod and recognition of the cosmic moment marking a turn of the earth, our seasons, and acknowledging the turning point in the cycles we are constantly experiencing. Propelled by light and reflection, this event is being created to hold space for that, for the community to attend and drop into that attitude to reflect on their own inner world, our ecosystem, and greater cosmic atmospheres.

Barn Sessions: Berklee in the Barn

April 23, 2022

Carriage House, Newton, MA

This event is SOLD OUT.

Please join us in an evening of original music by current Berklee College of Music students. Featuring Noah in the Open, The Thistle Brothers, and the Matilda Marigolds Band.

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Sound Collecting

Alnoba 24 Cottage Road
Kensington, NH 03833 United States

In this session we will engage in a series of exercises aimed to expand our listening range. Sound composer Pauline Oliveros wrote,“Sounds carry intelligence. Ideas, feelings, and memories are triggered by sound. If you are too narrow in your awareness of sounds, you are likely to be disconnected from your environment. ..[if] too much information is coming into the auditory cortex, or habit has narrowed listening to only what seems of value and concern to the listening, all else is tunedout or discarded as garbage.”. In this session of SOUND COLLECTING, we will engage in several of Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening exercises, examining our own awarenesses and self-imposed limitations in the local sonisphere.

This is a ticketed fundraiser to benefit Alnoba’s public park and playspace, Sawyer Park

Living in Your Wilderness

FEBRUARY 6, 2022
7:30PM

VIRTUAL EVENT
New Gallery Concert Series in partnership with Longy School of Music of Bard College

How do each of us grapple with our own bubbles? How do we create our own sense of wilderness, especially in times of isolation? Escapism vs. confrontation, virtual vs. physical, private vs. the face we present to the world, these past two years have forced us to explore who we are, where we settle, and our own wild realizations.

Join us with musicians and artists
Deniz Khateri,Jascha Narveson, Deb Todd Wheeler, composer Reena Esmail,  composer/electric guitarist Aaron Jay Meyers, vocals Danielle Pinals, Tyler Russell, & Andrew Wheeler, bassist and vocals Terrance Reeves, drummer Daniel T. Lewis, cellist Lev Mamuya, ​bass clarinetist Kevin Price, mandolin player Brian Potts, and NewGal Director & pianist Sarah Bob.

She Gets Lost

How can we linger in a space of reclamation and step into the sacred work of grief-tending? 

Deb Todd Wheeler will discuss her long form project, Radio Silence, a guided, geo-located audiowalk through the Lost Pond, a sanctuary space outside of Boston, MA. Since 2019 she has guided hundreds of walkers, one or two at a time, through the trails of the Lost Pond, where personal and environmental histories collide with present moment engagement in sound, song, site, source, and lament. Her soon to be released Radio Silence: Book of Walks is a meditation on the palimpsest of impressions collected from the repeat act of walking, talking, listening, witnessing through the years.

(This talk is now available to view via link below, via the Lesley University artist talks archive.)

BOOK of WALKS

Pre-order Book of Walks RADIO SILENCE, images by Kelly Davidson and Deb Todd Wheeler, essay by Jill Slosberg-Ackerman, book design by John Kramer.

Barn Sounds

music in the barn

Barn Sounds are curated events, where the audience is also the participant. If you are on the music journey at any stage, from beginner to advanced, and you want to play with others, originals and cover tunes, Barn Sounds might be for you. Subscribe to LENNYcollective for event announcements. Limited seating.

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