Microjourneys
The Microjourneys project invites people from all walks of life to create guided meditations that address the emotional content explored in conversation with us on The Infinite Crescendo Portal. These meditations function as a ‘micro-dose’ of our longer breathwork journeys. They are five to thirty minutes in length and focus on specific aspects of the self. Current themes include grief, presence, emerging out of the darkness, understanding symbols of the subconscious, the improvisation of life, conversations with the heart and binaural frequency healing. Each piece is will be a unique expression of each artist, but will be created in collaboration with Infinite Crescendo productions.
Shahzad Ismaily
Shahzad Ismaily is a musician and improvisational wizard who has recorded with Yoko Ono, Ben Frost, Arooj Aftab, and Bonny Prince Billy and has collaborated on multimedia performances with Laurie Anderson. He has also taken on the role of producer for the recent albums of Cass Mcombs and Laura Veirs. Ismaily is one of the musicians featured in a beautiful experimental Art Film / Performance called "The Visitors” Ragnar Kjartansson that was at the Broad last year.
Jacqueline Suskin
Jacqueline Suskin is a poet and educator who has been teaching workshops, writing books, and creating spontaneous poetry around the world since 2009. She has composed over forty thousand improvisational poems with her ongoing writing project, Poem Store. Suskin is the author of seven books, including The Edge of The Continent Volume 1-3, Help in the Dark Season, and Every Day is a Poem. Her work has been featured in various publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Yes! magazine. As the Artist in Residence at Folklife Farm from 2019-2021, Suskin founded a retreat program and continues to host artists from around the world. She lives in Detroit.
Josephine Foster
Josephine Foster singer-songwriter, poet, visual artist and composer. Hers is a “music that plays games with our ideas of time and space” says The Guardian. The Nashville Scene describes her work a”fusion of art song and American folk music” and there she walks a musical high wire. Byron Coley calls her “one of this generation’s great original voices”, and she is “known to breathe new life into archaic forms, embodying the cultural archaeology of Harry Smith’s old weird America, and has lent her characteristic warbling mezzo-soprano and interpretive wit to over two decades of recordings.
Elena Stonaker
Elena Stonaker is a multi-media artist working in interactive textile installation, painting, sculpture, design, video, and participatory audience experiences. With a deep interest in exploring a crossover between art and a wide spectrum of healing modalities and mythology from around the globe, Stonaker creates lush and hyper-feminine surreal worlds based on archetypal visual language. Using softness, beauty and comfort to create a childlike space, she aims to explore how to transmute shadow and pain into growth and discovery with a sense of awe.
Tenzin Cheogyal
Tenzin Choegyal is one of the world’s finest musicians in the Tibetan tradition. As a son of Tibetan nomads, he feels a particular connection to the music of the high Himalayan plateau. An outstanding composer/ performer with a great depth of musical knowledge, intuition and inventiveness, Tenzin continues to bring new sounds of Tibet while strongly holding the essence of ancient Tibetan wisdom. He attributes his art form to the early karmic imprints of hearing his mother and father as a toddler.
While proudly continuing the unbroken nomadic lineage which is central to his repertoire, Tenzin also embraces opportunities to take his music into more contemporary, uncharted territory, both in the studio and on stage. He has also opened many of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Public Talks.
Tenzin has nine independent albums, three of them with his fusion band Tibet2Timbuk2, and regularly performs with Camerata Brisbane’s acclaimed Chamber Orchestra. His collaborative albums include The Last Dalai Lama?with Philip Glass, Peradam album by Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith featuring Anoushka Shankar & Charlotte Gainsbourh and the 2021 Grammy-nominated Songs from the Bardo released through Smithsonian Folkways with his longtime friend and collaborator Jesse Paris Smith and Laurie Anderson – a moving interpretation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Laraaji
Laraaji is a pioneer of ambient music. In 1979, started working with the electronic musician and producer Brian Eno, who heard Laraaji playing in the park and dropped his phone number in the collection basket. The following year, Laraaji and Eno released Ambient 3: Day of Radiance. His celestial electric zither, kalimba and sound bowls are transportive, and his laugh is infectious. Laraaji has released over 50 recordings and is spreading the gospel of laughter as a transformative force in his ‘Laughter Playshops.’
Mara Hoffman
Mara Hoffman is an artist and fashion designer. She she started her label in 2000 after graduating Parsons School of Design in NYC. Fifteen years later the brand is committed to implementing more sustainable practices in celebration of women. She doesn't simply create clothing, she creates worlds for strong, empowered, mystical beings to live in. From her inner well of love, respect, and a connection to something greater than herself, her otherworldly creations are born.
Kelsie Moore
in collaboration with Matthew Driggs
Kelsie Moore is an Australian-American documentary filmmaker and artist. Across mediums, she directs intimate projects that explore vulnerability and identity. Her Emmy winning feature directorial debut, The Gerda That Remains, is broadcasting on PBS channels nationwide in the U.S.
Matthew Driggs McMurray is an experimental electronic musician, composer and sound designer who creates works for stages, screens, and spaces - including the original score for The Gerda That Remains. Their first collaboration together both as performing artists, is Losing Leaves, made in conjunction for Kelsie’s live art show, Tender Time.
David B. Smith
David B. Smith (Brooklyn, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist, working primarily with textiles, sound, and sculpture. Smith was awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture, and residencies including Apex Art, New Zealand, Marble House Project, VT, Franconia Sculpture Park, MN, and Millay Arts, and Textile Arts Center, NY. Smith’s work has appeared in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, The International Center of Photography, Johannes Vogt Gallery, Museum Rijswijk, Asia Song Society, with solo shows at Halsey McKay Gallery, Geary Contemporary, Spring Break Art / Show, Millersville University, and SUNY Old Westbury. They have performed at spaces such as David Zwirner Gallery, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Knitting Factory, and the Venice Beach Boardwalk.
Wildlife Freeway
Wildlife Freeway is Sunny Atema, an abstract painter, filmmaker, and musician who tours with her upright piano. Her debut album Sunny, produced and accompanied by Alex Ebert (Edward Sharpe) was released in 2022 on Community Music. The album features a collection of exquisitely crafted, jazz-folk songs that fill the heart's hunger for intimacy. Attending a Wildlife Freeway concert is to enter into a portal of awakening, emotion and awe. The next upcoming Wildlife Freeway album, Moon, will be piano heavy meets spare acapella prayer as music. Sunny is also the creator and illustrator of Animal Medicine Cards, an oracle deck that gives divine wisdom from our neighbors the animals. She has a growing collection of musical films that are time capsules and fantasy journeys filled with cameos, paper mache masks, record stores, forests, underwater dancing and, of course, piano concerts for unlikely audiences on questionable terrain.
*Image by Jay Carrol
Mar Harrsen
Mar Harrsen is a metaphysical healer and artist, exploring the spiritual nature of man. From pilgrimages by horse through the Peruvian Andes to sit in ceremony with indigenous elders to periods of solitary retreat with prayer and meditation in a renowned chapel in the Algarve region of Portugal to water baptisms among the aquamarine seas that caress the Pacific and Mediterranean islands, Mar has explored vast spiritual and natural atmospheres that deeply imbibe her work.
Her work is healing through prayer in Spirit, not matter. A gentle process Mar explains as, spiritual regeneration and purification. Her individual treatments are scientific demonstrations of truth and love. Healing is the effect of submerging oneself in soul, where thought is uplifted to a clearer view of spiritual reality.
Early in her life, Mar discovered a profound love for the sacred by spending time alone in nature. She was brought onto her path as a healer after being cured of physical maladies through prayer, by two holy women on the north coast of Peru. This life experience awakened Mar’s innate spiritual sense, revitalizing her human consciousness and igniting a purpose to help others experience healing.
Harrsen’s worldliness allowed her the experience of various cultural traditions and religions where she gained an expansive perspective on healing. Her curiosities led to a decade of study in mysticism, metaphysics and primitive christianity. Mar lives and works in Ojai, California.