Z grew up in Memphis where a culture of music pulsed around him. He lived in the Idaho mountains before moving to Seattle, Washington, in 1986. He was playing his 12-string guitar live in the desert at Burning Man when he discovered the raw minimalistic elements found on the CD, "Water Sines—Tone Poems in the Key of H²O". Z noticed that a persistent, beatless groove delivered in a single key produced a calming effect on the gathered audience. Z pays homage to Indian music and in particular the tambura, a four-string lute used for its drone sound. He gets inspiration from the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and Gurumayi Chidvilasananda. Z is a self-taught musician who has been playing music for many lifetimes.

Jake Perrine is an artist whose mediums include music, audio, video, theatre and poetry.  He has released four albums of his music over the last decade, and produced and engineered for many other artists.  He is a graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.  He is a founding member of Division13, a 501(c)3 theatre company based in Chicago and New York.  His undergraduate thesis was an original rock opera entitled “Vamp” that was ultimately produced in Times Square, NYC in 2001.  Since moving to Seattle, Jake has worked for RealNetworks engineering webcasts all over the world, taught audio and video production at The Art Institute of Seattle for over a decade, and mastered over one hundred CDs for international clients at RFI/CD Mastering.  His electronic compositions can be heard and purchased at www.djspire.com.

Peter Toms is an artist/musician/performer/nutcase loudmouth/ pyromaniac/tech geek/event initiator. He's noted for having founded the Fremont Solstice Parade among many other events, and was once ringmaster of the Cirque de Flambe fire circus. He is known to play with welding torches and has a talent for suspending very heavy things in the air. He likes his eggs scrambled with mango chutney and hates to watch television.

Originally hailing from Louisville Kentucky, Dean moved to the NYC/Philadelphia area and established himself as a “respected” psychedelic techno trance producer, using computer technology to manipulate sounds and build synthetic-organic rhythm structures. For the last 7 years, his onnomon project has performed at numerous trance festivals around the world. Previously, he played guitar in various art/progressive rock bands and performed experimental ambient live sound.Noise is a spectral chorus of heavenly hosts singing sweet serenades, or are our ears just ringing?

Che oke' ten (Paul Wagner), Native American flutist, drummer/singer and storyteller of the Saanich (Coast Salish) tribe, shares the beautiful songs and stories of his ancient northwest coast Sissiwiss (“sacred breath”/”sacred life”) spirituality, in cultural presentations and ritual and public performances, in the United States and abroad. Based out of Seattle, Washington, Che oke' ten has worked with some of the Pacific Northwest's great artists such as Eyvind Kang, Bill Frisell, Gina Sala and Johnny Moses.

Che oke' ten comes from a lineage of Shneh'em, medicine people who have dedicated their lives to healing work using many tools, including music. He continues this work through traditional sound healing and ritual performance. Che oke' ten's Native American flute songs have come to him with visions of healing and prayer for all relations (tree people, animal people, human people). He believes music comes to us directly from Spirit; leaving yourself open to Spirit is the way; asking for the gifts to come so we can gift the music to those who need such blessings. Along with his traditional Native American flute.

Che oke' ten also plays mbira from Zimbabwe, didgeridoo, Chipendani (Zimbabwean mouth bow), guitar, bass, trombone, drum and voice. Winner of Best Album in the 2009 Just Plain Folks music awards for Journey of the Spirit.

West Coast recording artist Michael Maricle began creating music at the age of four when he first sat down to play the piano. He was born in Los Angeles in 1969 and grew up on the Central Coast of California, where he studied classical piano and cello. He is a graduate in Music Composition from UC Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies. In the 1990s Michael formed an electronic jam band called Padma, playing improvised electronic music in the SF underground electronic music scene. In 2001 Michael moved to Seattle and began to fine tune his unique sound, perfect the art of music production, and study sound healing with world renowned sound healer Tom Kenyon. In 2005 Michael released “Breakthrough”, a Hemi-Sync release with the Monroe Institute, a CD designed to enhance creativity, learning and focus. Michael also has three self produced CDs, “Dreamelodia”, ”Reflections” and “French Press”. You can hear his music on his website, www.michaelamaricle.com

The first time I saw and heard the Hang Drum I was completely entranced. Its sound took me into the ancient past and its shape transported me into the future. Its unusual tones are both soothing and mysterious. I usually play for my yoga students before and after class as a way of helping to bring about unity of consciousness. I feel blessed to posses this relatively new instrument (about 10 years old), which is a Swiss innovation on the steel drums of the Caribbean, and to be able to share its sound with the world.

Craig is a Seattle musician who has been playing drums and percussion for the last thirty years.  Over that time, he has played and recorded with many different groups of musicians in many different styles.   In addition to live performance, Craig is very involved with music production, recording, and engineering.

Khadoma and Kevin offer prayer and love this evening through sound and light, acoustic and photonic waves generated from within and refracted by the quartz crystaline structure of deep space toning bowls. Peace be within you.

Music ritual and dance are intrinsic elements in Nina's life. For the past 4 years she has worked with the Oracle Gatherings producing elaborate opening and closing ceremonies. As an event producer she is passionate about creating sacred environments for gatherings and is also a painter, clothing designer and community organizer.. In her professional life, Nina is a Naturopathic Aesthetician, providing a healing and educating experience for her clients for over 10 years.

Molly Murphy's journey on the path of Dance has been that of a lifetime. She began dancing at the age of three, moving into competition at an early age. In recent years she has studied international forms of dance including performing with TanzAG Ulm in Germany and studying East Indian Orissi dance. She is currently studying the Expressive Arts at Evergreen and enjoys dancing barefoot with community.

Ceanna is a professional dancer originally from San Francisco, CA. She is classically trained, but has found her true love in world forms, more specifically Flamenco, middle eastern Belly Dance, and classical Indian. She performs in the Seattle area regularly, and has danced in renowned ethno dance companies in both S.F. and Seattle.

Ines Andrade–Maricle received her BFA in Dance/Choreography from University of Florida/New world school of the Arts . She has performed, choreographed and taught young children and adults in Paris, Florida and the San Juan Islands, before moving to Seattle in 1999. She currently teaches movement in preschools, schools, Dance Centers (American Dance Institute, Creative Dance Center, Pacific Northwest Ballet amongst others), and performs in an array of ethnic dance forms from Court dances to Flamenco as well as Butoh. Along with performing her own work, Ines has been a member of Seattle Early Dance (Renaissance and Baroque work) since 2001.

SeattleAcro is a dynamic practice that explores trust, awareness, and play. During a performance, we interweave therapeutic and acrobatic flying. We deepen our strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance through the absolute truth in loving communication. Find Lux & Dawn at seattleacro.com

Since the age of three, Maura's study of Dance, Yoga and Art have fueled her passion for expressive movement. She dedicates her life to this movement, letting each moment be a creative evolution guided by her heart. She believes movement is one of the many potent keys to all of the beautiful complexities and simplicities in this synchranistic universe.

Eric Wilson, MS completed two Minor Degree's in Dance during college and won the first dance contest he interred in as a teen. Before the age of five Eric was imitating James Brown during holiday gatherings and continues to perform yearly at the World Rhythm Festival here in Seattle. As an Exercise Physiologist Eric provides personal training, workshops, and teaches a weekly aerobic dance class with an African/funk flavor. www.comfit.com

Further Dancers:


Phillip Barunda / Seattle
Chryseph / Seattle

Ilen is a native to Seattle. She has devoted her life to further mastery & visionary application of vocal & dance performance. She has performed in over 40 productions at– 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, The Producer’s Club, and many others. She has performed on national & international television (NBC, TBN, KCTS). Ilen has performed/ recorded with artists like, Chaka Khan, Peter Cetera (Chicago), Howard McCrary, JahSun, Ras Attitude, The Goddess Alchemy Project, Living Alliance of Love and Many other bands up and down the west coast. Ilen is an accomplished song writer. She was chosen by BMG & Billboard Music as one of the top 10 independent artists of the West Coast in 2007. Ilen is co– creating a bold & colorful new environment through the synesthetic integration of performance. She is using her voice in this performance as a tool to tune and harmonize our water bodies with knowledge of self. Ilen is deeply thankful for this connection. She is honored to be sharing her voice & water blessing with the Water Sines family.

“My daughter Dahlia and I moved from Hawaii to Seattle. I like to stay close to the ocean, the insistent, endlessly patient message of its waves. Words are a boat that carry me into the open. I write and teach under my own roof under the sky. I love when the roof busts off, audience and their fellow travelers onstage uniting with the moment, its liquid life, its nameless wings.” Recordings, and more can be found at www.karindeweille.com