Animist Orchestra
Making audible the inherent sound of nature by intention with materials of one’s environment, Animist Orchestra was started by Jeph Jerman in 1999. While Jeph had been working on the impetus for the orchestra for a long time, it was Spring and Summer of that year that he began making scores and written and verbal instructions for how to make this practice in larger groups. As much a meditation as a performance as an act of auditory-kinetic communion with collections of resonant natural materials, this group and this practice has helped to deepen my awareness of qualities of sounds and the intentions behind them. Read from Jeph’s journal about the early days of this group.
Opportunities to see and hear the Animist Orchestra:
See Jeph and the rest of the group prepping before an Animist Orchestra performance at the Good Shephard Center Chapel, January 27, 2006. And listen to “16 30 for Doug Haire (16:33),” a short improvisation preceding the concert.
Guerrilla Animist Orchestra! Homage to Animist Orchestra by Hollow Earth Radio June 17, 2008 Click on “Full Moon Apple Core” to listen
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