Art Durkee

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Musician, Artist, Writer
Location Nomadic, Western and Midwestern, United States
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Introduction A wandering musician, artist, and writer, traveling across the face of the earth and sharing what is encountered. Has won awards for music composition, visual art, and creative writing.
Interests Music, art-making, poetry, photography, Zen, haiku, haibun, zuihitsu, tanka, geology, science, land art sculpture, mysticism
Favorite Movies Baraka, Chronos, Zorba the Greek, The Sixth Sense, Thunderheart, What Dreams May Come, Rivers and Tides, Tron, MirrorMask, Angels In America, Princess Mononoke, The Lathe of Heaven, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Akira, Contact, Altered States, The Mothman Prophecies, Snow Falling On Cedars, The Fountain
Favorite Music classical, jazz, free jazz, experimental, avant-garde, John Cage, Shriekback, Bill Laswell, gamelan, worldbeat, techno, Chapman Stick, frame drums, progressive, spacemusic
Favorite Books Loren Eiseley, John Cage, Jorge Luis Borges, CP Cavafy, Rainer Maria Rilke, Octavio Paz, Carl Jung, Rob Brezsny, Federico Garcia Lorca, John McPhee, Barry Lopez, Albert Camus, Matthew Fox, Odysseas Elytis, Angelos Sikelianos, Sam Hamill