Dave Knott in store performance
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