Skyeris

(she/they)

https://www.skyeris.art

skyeris.art@gmail.com


Statement

I believe in the power of sound, vibration, breath, and community. I seek to activate spaces for the sake of fostering connection and altering consciousness.

I wish to share the sounds, rhythms, and instruments I have encountered from all over the world, in a respectful way. I regard myself as a steward, a caretaker of instruments, which are on their own journeys.

I find little distinction between the so-called mundane and sacred. That so-called boundary blurs in my sonic spaces, so that people find profound meaning and potency in any moment.


Selected Performances

2024 Sheds of the 6 Senses at Curious Sensory Encounters - 7 Stages in Atlanta, GA

2023 Weelaunee Art Action Gathering - 7 Stages, Atlanta, GA

2023 Sol Dance Coalescence - The Chapel on Sycamore, Decatur, GA 

2022 Museum of Rest at Atlanta Fringe Festival - Neighborhood Church in Atlanta, GA

2021 All Bodies Welcome at Curious Future Encounters - 7 Stages in Atlanta, GA

2021 Nomadic Love Mesa - eyedrum in Atlanta, GA

2021 Tjak Atlan (kecak) - Serenbe Farms in Chattahoochee Hills, GA

2020 Dicklit: Exposing the Modern Inbox - Red Light Café in Atlanta, GA

2019 Dancing Tree Festival - Heartwood Health, Art, & Yoga in Blue Ridge, GA

2019 Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2019 Dicklit: Exposing the Modern Inbox - 7 Stages in Atlanta, GA

2018 Midwest Yoga & Kirtan Fest - Jefferson County Faigrounds in Jefferson, WI

2018 Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2018 eyedrum 20th Anniversary Party - Metropolitan Studios in Atlanta, GA

2017 Rings of Light with Nomadic Love Mesa at Dancing Tree Festival - Heartwood Health, Art, & Yoga in Blue Ridge, GA

2017 Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2017 Vagina Monologues - Red Light Café in Atlanta, GA

2016 Floyd Yoga Jam - Burnette Farm in Willis, VA

2016 Lovelight Festival - Camp Ramblewood in Darlington, MD

2016 Corona Borealis with Flight of Swallows at Atlanta Fringe Festival - 7 Stages in Atlanta, GA

2016 Dicklit: Exposing the Modern Inbox - Mammal Gallery in Atlanta, GA

2016 Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2016 Vagina Monologues - Red Light Café in Atlanta, GA

2015 Floyd Yoga Jam - Burnette Farm in Willis, VA

2015 Dancing Tree Festival - Heartwood Health, Art, & Yoga in Blue Ridge, GA

2015 Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2015 Vagina Monologues - Elliot Street Pub in Atlanta, GA

2014 Tjak Atlan (kecak) at Scoutmob + The Goat Farm Halloween - Goat Farm in Atlanta, GA

2014 Tjak Atlan (kecak) in Black Rock City, NV

2014 Circus Combustus in Atlanta, GA

2014 Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2013 Bhakti Fest Midwest - Willow Island Alliant Energy Center in Madison, WI

2013 Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2013 1 Billion Rising - Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Atlanta, GA

2012 Immolation (performance for sculpture by Ryan Mathern) - Atlanta Beltline in Atlanta, GA

2012 Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2011 Alchemy Fire Conclave -  Alchemy Burn in Lafayette, GA

2011 Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2011 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, TN

2010 Alchemy Fire Conclave - Alchemy Burn in Lafayette, GA

2010 Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - First Existentialist Congregation in Atlanta, GA

2010 Burning Man Fire Conclave - Burning Man in Black Rock City, NV

2001 Vagina Monologues - Cunningham Performance Hall at Davidson College in Davidson, NC


Album Appearances

2017 Corona Borealis - Flight of Swallows

2018 Tridevi - Blue Spirit Wheel

2016 Planetary Alignment - Blue Spirit Wheel

2014 Kailasa - Blue Spirit Wheel

2013 Universal Prayer - Bhakti Messenger

2013 Devotional Rescue - Rahasya

2013 Darkness to Light (Dhauta) - Blue Spirit Wheel

2012 Adi - Blue Spirit Wheel

2011 Rahasya - Rahasya


Music Tours

2013-2018 USA & Canada (5 total) with Blue Spirit Wheel

1992 England & Scotland with the Young Singers of Callanwolde

1990-1993 Southeastern USA (3 total) with the Young Singers of Callanwolde


Selected Writing

2017 “The Yoga of Plastic” in Aquarius Atlanta

2016-2017 Breaking the Mandala (series of monthly articles, co-written with Keith Prossick, not all currently online) in Aquarius Atlanta

2016 “How Do You Know When to Give a Playa Gift? You Just Know!” in Burning Man Journal


Selected Event Production & Co-Production

2019-2020 Co-Producer of Ecstatic Dance Atlanta (weekly, eventually biweekly community dances) - Chosewood Ballroom in Atlanta, GA

2017-2019 Director of Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2016-2017 Stage Manager of Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2015 Co-Producer of Burning Man Decompression (with Sparseland Studios) - Atlanta, GA

2015 Stage Manager of Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2014 Co-Producer & Silent Auction Coordinator - The Infinite Infant & the Trail of Toys Fundraiser for Sparseland Studios - Metropolitan Studios in Atlanta, GA

2014 Stage Manager of Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2013 Co-Producer & Silent Auction Coordinator - Big Bully Fundraiser for Sparseland Studios - Metropolitan Studios in Atlanta, GA

2013 Stage Manager of Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2012 Silent Auction Coordinator & Co-Producer - 24/7 Timestar Fundraiser for Sparseland Studios - Metropolitan Studios in Atlanta, GA

2012 Silent Auction Coordinator - Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA

2011 Co-Producer of Art of Such ‘n Such NYE - Metropolitan Studios in Atlanta, GA

2011 Co-Producer & Silent Auction Coordinator - Circle of Regional Effigies Fundraiser for Sparseland Studios - Metropolitan Studios in Atlanta, GA

2010-2011 Silent Auction Coordinator - Chantlanta Sacred Music Festival - First Existentialist Congregation & Church at Ponce & Highland in Atlanta, GA


Education

2001 AB English/Spanish/Gender Studies cum laude - Davidson College in Davidson, NC


Musical Education

2002-2003 Taiko (traditional Japanese drumming) in Yamagata, Japan

1999-2001 West African drumming in Davidson, NC

1990-1997 Violin in various orchestras & chamber groups - Atlanta, GA

1984-2001 Voice in various choirs & chamber groups - Atlanta, GA & Davidson, NC