The Mindfulness Orchestra

This unique Meetup is for musicians wishing to go deeply into playing together mindfully.

We are targeting musicians of intermediate to advanced level. Although a certain amount of technical ability is preferred, the main requirement is a willingness to let go and play purely from feeling, listen deeply and respond musically.

I'm a Melbourne based composer who is interested in intuitive performances that bring people into a deep state of meditation, joy or feeling. The style of music and playing for the Mindfulness Orchestra includes:

1. Soundscapes/orchestral that combine elements of field-recorded sounds with live instrumental improvisations in accordance with a broad pre-planned outline for the piece of music. 

2. Soundscapes/orchestral that is semi-notated in a non-traditional way. The notes that you play will be pre-composed, but when and how you play them will be up to you (but with some guidelines). The expectation would be to mindfully tune-in and respond.

3. Eventually, once we are good at mindfully playing together, we will attempt some more traditionally notated scores, but played with a heightened sense of mindfulness captured among the notes.

If this line of develop appeals to you as a musician, do join up, and send me a message if you'd like to know more. I'm open to a range of instruments, but usually work with strings, woodwind and brass. I play piano as well as trigger the field-collected sounds.

I'm imagining that once we have a steady group, we should play concerts.