Aleatory chantings
Adam Overton will research the various chants and various forms of divination used in Nodar, in order to develop some simple Chance Chants, which are group chants using chance procedures and inspired by John Cage’s work with the I Ching. The artist will develop some kind of system or chart that can generate a custom chant for anybody in need of one. These lucky chants could be based on information in put into the program (i.e. age, date of birth, credit card number, etc), or various other personalized factors, and could then be used in private, or in group performances. The plan is to generate the chants using various syllabic and textual source materials used by the locals : pre-existing chants, lucky phrases, religious, sacred, or lucky texts, which are then broken down into syllables, and then categorized, rearranged using chance procedures, and then sounded out.
Adam Overtonis an experimental artist living in Los Angeles who works between performance, writing, experimental music, massage, workshops, event production and various participatory forms, all in order to facilitate odd and intimate artist-led experiences. He connects regularly with a variety of artist-peers via several collaborative platforms, including Signify, Sanctify, Believe (with Tanya Rubbak and Claire Cronin, and involving the contributions of over 70 semi-secular artists), The Eternal Teleth on, and Upload Download Perform.net. He works closely with Guru Rugu as co-director of the Experimental Meditation Center of Los Angeles and as a ghost writer for Guru Rugu’s Experimental Meditation Hour on KCHUNG Radio.