Dissonant Plane

FREE IN STORE PERFORMANCE

SATURDAY DECEMBER 12, 2009

DAVE KNOTT

6:00 PM



He started playing with sound in his grandfather’s junkyard in the early 1970’s, began guitar in 1981, served in the US Army 1988-1991, became a luthier in 1994, performed guitar music, built instruments, co-creatively engaged audiences and completed a degree in Music Therapy in 2000.



Since 2002, Knott has practiced as a music therapist at both Seattle Children’s Hospital and the Bailey-Boushay House. The Sweet Little Guitar Ditties have been developed over the past seven years within a music therapy practice with critically ill and injured adults and children. 



These guitar miniatures are musical offerings intended to engage and then calm individuals who face medical interventions and related anxiety and pain.  Knott’s collaborators in the Messenger Girls Trio helped him to refine the Ditties in weekly improvised music sessions from 2001-2007.



For more information about David Knott’s music therapy practice, go to:  http://www.seattlechildrens.org/about/stories/sound-of-music-therapy/



Music therapy is an allied health profession with a national independent certifying body.  Knott obtained his board certification in 2001 and completed his advanced training in Neurologic Music Therapy in 2006.

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Dave Knott has recorded with Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Rob Millis & Jeffery Taylor (Climax Golden Twins), Animist Orchestra and Yes, Well (Jeph Jerman), Omake (Matt Shoemaker) & Johnson, Greasy, Erik Major, Mike Shannon, Steve Barsotti, Eric Lanzillotta and many others.  He has had the great fortune of studying with Pauline Oliveros and Stuart Dempster.  Knott has created numerous installations for participants to realize kinesthetic expressions in sound and promote deeper listening and has organized large, semi-improvised community sound-making experiences.  With instrument building, performances, workshops and recorded works, he seeks to stimulate the listener to a point of resonance and discovery of their own musical being.



Discography:  http://www.discogs.com/artist/Dave+Knott

These are the 30 top selling titles over the last year at Dissonant Plane:

• Bixobal #5 magazine
• Forest Of Grey s/t CDR
• Sun City Girls Fruit of the Womb / Polite Deception 2 x LP
• Baker, Laurie Scott Gracility 2 x CD
• Chalk, Andrew Shadows from the Album Skies CD
• Ghosts on Water Senshu CD
• Mood Organ Visiting A Burning Museum CDR
• Our Love Will Destroy the World Polished Glass Autobahn 7″
• Thunder Grey Pilgrim Demogorgon CDR
• Astral Social Club Monster Mittens 7”
• Chalk, Andrew River That Flows Into The Sands CD
• Hellgrammite demo C12
• AFCGT 10″ EP
• AFCGT LP
• Beausoleil, Bobby The Lucifer Rising Suite 4 x LP box
• Chalk, Andrew River That Flows Into The Sands II CD
• Chalk, Andrew & Suzuki, Daisuke Days After CD
• Deep Listening Band Non-Stop Flight CD
• Deep Listening Band Then & Now Now & Then: Celebrating 20 Years 2 x LP
• Dempster, Stuart Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel CD
• Jackman, Vikki Whispering Pages CD
• Johnston, Demian A Fortress At Terra Sea C90
• Johnston, Demian Forever C60
• Johnston, Demian Still C90
• Knott, Dave Sweet Little Guitar Ditties CD
• Various …and Shiva Came For Charlie LP
• Various Wooden Guitar 2 x LP
• Wright, Peter Magpie Attack on the Back Road to Albert Town 7”
• Wright, Peter Terrifying Realisation We Might Be Wrong 7”
• Zaïmph Death Blooming Pleasure LP

We still have a few posters for the Kawabata Makoto performance left.  While supplies last, you can get a free screen printed poster made for us by Broken Press.  All you have to do is buy something by Kawabata or Acid Mothers Temple or make a purchase over $20 and we will give you a poster.  It’s really beautiful and only 50 copies were made.  So rush on down and grab yours before they are history!