Sound Sanctuary

Heart Centered Music Performance

with Pamela Mortensen, Dave Goodman and Brennan Morrow

Hawthorn Healing Arts Center, Bend Oregon.

Saturday, March 30th at 6 pm

Sliding scale donation $15 suggested.

Seattle-based didgeridoo artist, Pamela Mortensen returns for an evening of meditation, vibration and sound with didgeridoo, chanting, Native American flute, and other instruments to set a space of peace and healing that allows the mind to rest and the heart to open. Join Pamela and local artists Dave Goodman and Brennan Morrow as they set the space at Hawthorn Healing Arts Center with meditative soundscapes and rhythms to let the soul journey by.  Come as you are and participate as you like as we share in an evening of light and love.

Award winning artist, Pamela Mortensen has had a long and colorful career in music that began at the age of six with the organ. This first love led her to a lifetime of sound synthesis through digital synthesis, singing, found sounds and composition but nothing prepared her for the didgeridoo.  In 2005, this seemingly simple hollow stick entered into her life and set her on an unexpected path. Seeing the didgeridoo as an organic synthesizer, she weaves  voice, diaphragm, intricate Middle Eastern and Eastern European rhythms with urban beats to tell tales of modern magic and ancient mysticism.

This vocation has taken her through collaborations with Egyptian tabla player George Sedak, Cittaflow, Edward Zincavage, Alexandra Be, Sacred Fire Flute Ensemble and video artist and poet VJ Tasara. The latter has resulted in the mesmerizing show of sound and light Speaking from Spaces in 2009 . Pamela’s other musical adventures have included graduating from Cornish College of the Arts as a composition major, recording for the legendary Bear Creek Studios, teaching piano, voice and didgeridoo at Moore Brothers Music and performances through the West Coast of the US, Europe and Canada and winning the Seattle Artists Award in 1997 and 1999 Yamaha’s Recording Artists Award in 2004 andASACP’s  New Artists Award in 2005.

Discography

Mosaic (2005)

Didgeridoo Sampler (2006)

Treespeak (2008)

Doğum (2010)