Temple of Sound

Using Drone as both a grounding and propelling force, the workshop will open new pathways to self, place, and community through gentle, open-ended exercises: Listening, Moving, Sounding and Dreaming.

Benefits can include increased awareness, accelerated stress release and healing, connection to the infinite, and heightened communication and empathic response. No experience required, only an open mind. 

Admission is $15 / no one turned away for lack of funds. The workshop is now full. Please contact Sarah directly at sarah.vanburen@gmail.com to join the waiting list.

Sponsored by the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer.

Sarah Van Buren (SVB) is an artist, educator, sound maker and raver who works with music, sound and collaborative performance to investigate buried histories, communal ritual and collective resonance. She is a co-founder of both the Hudson Valley-based DJ collective Community Rave Network and the NYC-based video art / party / performance collective CHERYL. She was co-curator of Basilica Hudson’s 24-HOUR DRONE festival from its inception until 2020, and is certified in Deep Listening® by The Center for Deep Listening at RPI.

Arone Dyer is a musician, composer & founding member of duos Buke and Gase & Mistresses, the producer of Dronechoir (Patreon), a project which examines social dis/comfort through long-durational choral performance, and a non-stop collaborator with an extensive resume of appearances, most notably on the National’s 2018 Grammy-winning release Sleep Well Beast, creating and singing the introduction to their #1 Billboard Hit “The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness”, Naama Tsabar’s Composition Series, David Garland’s Verdancy, Adam Schatz’s The Holiday Party, Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier, poet Mahogany L Brown, Berlin-based Stargaze & Cantus Domus, among many others. Dyer has also collaborated with artists Bon Iver and The National.

Kamau Amu Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites. Patton’s projects are dialogic and take form as expanded field conversations. Patton received his MFA from Stanford University in 2007 and received a degree in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. His work was shown in 2012 as part of Pacific Standard Time and in 2013 as part of the Machine Project Field guide to LA Architecture. Patton has completed projects in soundscape studies through support provided by the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Mellon Elemental Arts Initiative, and the Tang Teaching Museum. He presented research in 2016 at the ABF house in Stockholm, Sweden, as a part of The Shape of Co- to- Come symposium and exhibition. Patton participated in a series of performances as part of Projects 107: Lone Wolf Recital Corps at the Museum of Modern Art in August 2017. In September 2017, he installed an iteration of his ongoing project, Tel, at the Tang Museum. In 2019, Patton’s public art commission with the Bowman Montessori School in Palo Alto, CA, was open to the public. In 2020 Patton was an artist in residence at Coaxial Arts Foundation in Los Angeles. And, he was a 2020 Archive Artist in Residence at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. Utilizing recordings from the Sun Ra / El Saturn Collection, Patton created “The Past & Other Dreams”, a double cassette produced by the artist in collaboration with the Creative Audio Archive at ESS. A box set LP of Patton’s arrangements of Terry Adkins’s Lone Wolf Recital Corps Recitals, Second Mind and Alto Age, was released in partnership with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in 2021.