ABOUT
Tiny Orchestral Moments
WHO: The Musicians
Tiny Orchestral Moments is an international community of connected musicians who meet
periodically to practice, perform, write, record, and improvise
together.
We invite new Music into the world by collaborating across geographies,
genres, genders and generations. The ensemble includes a gender-balanced
core team of invited, masterful musicians who are already established in
their work as internationally-recognized performers.
The core team is energized via contributions from guests, students,
beginners, apprentices, organizers, instructors and experienced
collaborators from in and outside the worldwide
Guitar Craft and local
Seattle Circle communities.
WHAT: Workshops
Tiny Orchestral Moments hosts
weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly inclusive Workshops where we
invite a full spectrum of aspiring, practicing and master musicians to
come together to collaborate and participate in the act of bringing
music to life.
The aim: develop practical skills to work in diverse groups, resolving
(alleged) differences by practicing the act and art of Harmony. We
actively develop structured improvisation that sounds composed, and
composed collaboration that sounds improvised, including beginners and
masters.
Recurring Workshops are open and designed to include existing local
communities. Longer, quarterly and yearly Workshops are hosted as
residential retreats where participants live and work together to
invent, write, refine, present, perform and record collaborative
repertoire for layered guitars, voices, violins, strings, wind, keys,
bass, drums and percussion.
This work is designed to enable individuals to practice and experience
effective group collaboration. While grounded in music, this work and
these practices also apply to and are useful for groups building
products, managing teams and/or working toward any common goal.
WHERE: Performances
Tiny Orchestral Moments performances are immersive. We fill the room
with movement and sound in 360-degrees as musicians play in and around
the audience. Physical surround sound is often complemented by striking
lights and multiple walls of ambient video, and supported by a mobile
orchestra of guitarists from the extended Seattle and international
Guitar Circle community.
In addition to hosting public performances as part of each project,
workshop and retreat, the full team also invests energy working,
writing, improvising and recording in world-class studios.
HOW
Products
TOM I Peak Week
in 2016 resulted in 3 CDs of new music
recorded at London Bridge in Seattle.
TOM II Peak Week in 2017
resulted in 2 CDs new of music
recorded at Bear Creek in Woodinville.
TOM III Peak Week in 2018
resulted in 3 CDs new of music
recorded at London Bridge in Seattle and an immersive CD of music
recorded at SkyMuse in Stanwood.
TOM IV Peak Week
in 2019 resulted in 5 CDs new of music
recorded at Ronald House & Kirkland Performance Center.
TOM V Peak Week
in 2022 will result in 3 CDs new of music
recorded at Avast Studio in Seattle.
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Complementing these CDs emerging from the first five seasons of TOM,
Seattle Director Louise Amandes is directing a
12-episode (~10 hours total!) TOM documentary series
for official release in 2025.
And, we are working on a separate short documentary feature
sharing the story of
our recent immersive collaboration with
Ron Jones at SkyMuse
studios.
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