Yantra Meditation by David Samas (original score)

Yantra Meditation by David Samas (original score)
ink on paper, 8.5 x 11, signed and framed, 2016

David Samas is a composer, cosmologist, poet, painter, performer, philosopher, farmer and father of 4. He has a BFA from the SF Art Institute in conceptual art and studied poetics at the New College of California, Vassar, Bennington and S.F. State. As a young man he performed with the SF Boys Chorus, the SF Opera and the SF Symphony with which he won a GRAMMY for the “best classical recording” of 1994. David focuses on inventing instruments and extended vocal techniques, and is the creator of the Superb Metaliphone, the Gamelan Piano, the Crystalithaphone, Glassilalia and a number of musical paintings which serve as sets, orchestras and characters for his inventive operas and shadow plays. He also serves as Artistic director at Turquoise Yantra Grotto, an ethno-modernist house concert series, makes sacred geometry amulets and talismans, is an excellent cook, and self publishes small editions of hand bound art books.