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Bandcamp / Buy It was a photograph of a synthesizer that first caught Steven Whiteleyâs eye. In 2018, Whiteley, a composer living at New Mexicoâs Upaya Zen Center, came across an unusual Instagram post from the Bay Areaâs Green Gulch Farm Zen Center: Danielle L. Davisâ modular synthesizer, sitting on the porch of a yurt. Before long, Whiteley traded life in Santa Fe for a residency at the Marin County retreat, bringing along little more than a laptop, MIDI controller, and classical guitar. There, the two musicians bonded over Pauline Oliverosâ philosophy of Deep Listening, which posits drone music as a path to heightened states of consciousness, and jammed in their free time. Eventually, both left Green Gulch for Oregonâs Great Vow Zen Monastery, on the banks of the Columbia River; granted time to pursue creative practice, they zeroed in on their sound, performing free-flowing improvisatory music on piano and electronics for monks and fellow ....
The center was already closed to guests this summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The monks have been clearing brush from around the facility and running a sprinkler system they named Dharma rain, which helps keep the center s buildings wet, Sozan Miglioli, president of the San Francisco Zen Center, which operates the monastery, told the AP. According to the AP, other firefighting monks later joined them from the San Francisco Zen Center and the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. The group of professionally trained firefighting monks have been busting blazes since 2008, when a wildfire spread to the Tassajara monastery. A dozen monks stayed behind to defend the center. Their efforts were chronicled in the book ....