David Hykes
David Hykes (
1953 - ) is a
musician,
composer,
author,
experimental filmmaker and
meditation teacher and director of the Harmonic Choir. He was born
Taos,
New Mexico and currently resides in
France. The
Harmonic Chant, developed by Hykes is based upon the
traditional world music of
Tuva,
Mongolia.
Tibet and the
medieval Christian
Gregorian chant form. Educated at Antioch College in
Yellow Springs, Ohio where he studied with the avant-guard or
experimental filmmaker Tony Conrad. He also received an M.F.A. from
Columbia University in New York. He began experimenting with
harmonic or
overtone singing in
1974. He founded the Harmonic Choir in
1975 and later incorporated the group in
New York as a
not-for-profit arts organization called the
Harmonic Arts Society Inc. on
September 11,
1981.
Hykes has collaborated twice with the English theater and film director Peter Brook, contributing film music for Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979) and training Brook's French Mahabharata cast. Hykes has also contributed music to the films Dead Poets Society, Ghost, and Baraka, among others.
He has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships for his work, notably from: UNESCO's Fund for the Promotion of Culture, several grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (USA), and years of support from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Discography
- RAINBOW DANCES (for your rainbow heart), (2002)
- BREATH OF THE HEART - DAVID HYKES/HARMONIC CHOIR, Fonix (1999)
- EARTH TO THE UNKNOWN POWER, label: BMG Classics/Catalyst (1996).09026-68347-2 recorded at The Kitchen
- TRUE TO THE TIMES (How to Be?) David Hykes with Bruno Caillat and Peter Biffin, label: New Albion (1993)
- LET THE LOVER BE, label: Auvidis (1991)
- WINDHORSE RIDERS, label: New Albion (1989)
- HARMONIC MEETINGS, label: Celestial Harmonies (1986)
- CURRENT CIRCULATION, label: Celestial Harmonies (1984)
- HEARING SOLAR WINDS, label: Ocora(Radio France), distributed by Harmonia Mundi (1983)
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