Open House: Music and Mindful Listening – with Awareness!

Joanna Rotté holds a conversation with world-class musician Steve Gorn about making music and listening to music: how we may learn to listen mindfully, more like a musician listens; how music-playing has meditative elements and how learning to listen can deepen our meditation practice; and how music as a contemplative art form may rise to the level of dharma art.

Steve Gorn, whose flute-playing is said to ‘re-align the cells,’ is featured on the Grammy-winning recording Miho: Journey to the Mountain with the Paul Winter Consort as well as in the Academy Award-winning documentary film Born into Brothels. At concerts and festivals around the world, he’s performed Indian classical music and new American music on the bansuri bamboo flute, soprano saxophone, and clarinet. A student of Chogyam Trungpa since 1977, he continues to explore the intersection of Buddhism and art through performing and teaching. During covid lockdown he curated an online series, Dharma Art and the Artist, for Sky Lake.

Open House at Sky Lake is a monthly series featuring guest presenters in conversation with theatre director Joanna Rotté. This is the fifth event in the series.

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