Performance Lecture: Arrington de Dionyso

An uncompromising voice in contemporary music, Arrington de Dionyso uses the ancient technique of throatsinging combined with a modified bass clarinet and invented instruments to conjure the Utopic Space between shamanic trance and transmodernist ecstasy. His solo performance and presentation at the Henry will combine the artist’s musical compositions with video projections featuring recent paintings created during a tour of “24 Hour Drawing Performances” that took place across the US and Canada in January 2013.

Combining his multiphonic vocal work with minimalist instrumentation and a frenzied stage persona, Arrington established the beloved Olympia band OLD TIME RELIJUN in 1995, which released eight albums on K Records. Arrington then went on to explore the world of Imaginary Syncretisms, with his next musical project MALAIKAT DAN SINGA, a throbbing, pulsating “TRANCE PUNK” ensemble which combines dancehall rhythms with gamelan scales, singing mystically inspired incantations in Indonesian, self-taught specifically for this project. Whether as a band leader or a solo performer, Arrington’s music evokes an “Ancient Future”, sometimes shocking and hallucinatory, always aiming to channel spirit.