Ms. Andrea Brook

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  www.www.vista360.org/workshops.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/8/2008    Last Visited: 1/8/2008  

  Led by Andrea Brook of MASS Ensemble, the workshops take advantage of the resonance of the Earth Harp to offer a unique healing experience combining yoga and sound.

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  Published on: 1/1/2005    Last Visited: 10/4/2009  

  With grace similar to a butterfly, Andrea Brook joined MASS Ensemble in 2001 as an aerial dancer. She has since learned to play some of the instruments. During one number she riveted the audience with her physical skill. Drawing on her love of yoga, Brook twisted and balanced in yoga positions with the strength of a gymnast and the skill of an acrobat. Brook also wrote and spoke the words for the song "Nexus."

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  Last Visited: 3/3/2008  

  MASS Ensemble: Andrea Brook, a member of the MASS Ensemble, plays the Earth Harp on Sunday outside the Cowan Center at the University of Texas at Tyler.Students and community members were entertained Sunday in front of the UT Tyler Cowan Center by an Earth Harp demonstration by the MASS Ensemble.
  
  The Earth Harp was installed Friday by Music Architecture Sight and Sound (MASS) Ensemble using the front of the Cowan Center.
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  Performer Andrea Brook explained that, as a dancer, learning to play the Earth Harp was not as difficult as she expected.
  
  "It is a very rhythmic instrument," she said.
  
  A group of about 20 stood watching as Ms. Brook moved her hands, covered in white gloves, across the barely visible harp strings, making her appear more like a mime than musician.
  
  "It can be hard to see the strings from a distance," she said.
  
  Her white gloves were coated in rosin, which is used to create friction on the bow of a violin or cello.
  
  "The friction sends the vibrations through the molecules of the strings," she explained to the audience.
  
  Hanging high above their heads, brass strings were clamped with wooden blocks to change the pitch of the strings.
  
  Ms. Brook said that, depending on where the wood was clamped on the strings, the sound they produced would differ.
  
  Once Ms. Brook and Close finished with their demonstration, the audience was given a chance to play the harp.
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  As her gloved hands plucked the strings, Davis looked intently as Ms. Brook instructed the children on how to make short- and long-sounding noises.

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  www.celebrationofoneness.com/schedule.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/9/2006    Last Visited: 4/28/2007  

  Andrea BrookAndrea Brook is a private yoga instructor and spiritual consultant on the west side of LA.She has a gift for icreating the "perfect practice", in yoga and in life, for each individual's unique body, mind and spirit.She offers the one and only beach yoga class on Venice Beach.Andrea is also a core member of MASS Ensemble (Music, Architecture, Sonic Sculpture), a music and arts performing group founded by her husband, Bill Close.

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  Fayetteville Free Weekly - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/13/2003    Last Visited: 11/15/2003  

  "We take our music very seriously," said Andrea Brook, assistant artistic director of MASS Ensemble.
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  Close and Brook arrived in Fayetteville last week to begin the installation.
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  Brook drove a 16-foot box truck filled with the sonic sculptures from Los Angeles, accompanied by her dog Moma.
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  Last week Close and Brook installed 17 sonic sculptures designed and created by Close, for an interactive exhibit "Close Sound" which will be housed in the WAC's Joy Pratt Markham Gallery through Jan. 3.
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  On Saturday and Sunday, Close and Brook installed and tuned the Earth Harp in the plaza of the WAC.
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  During the performances the strings will spring to life as a musical instrument played by Close and Brook to compliment the performers and video imagery.
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  Brook said they are often in and out of a city in about five days.After the WAC residency, the company will return to Los Angeles where they will install the Earth Harp on a building for a holiday lighting ceremony.
  
  During the two-week residency, the group is showcasing almost their entire repertoire.They are lecturing for school groups, performing, installing the Earth Harps and the smaller sonic sculptures, and conducting a hands-on instrument building workshop.
  
  "This is the type stuff we do," Brook said."We work with children, we do art installation, instrument building workshops."
  
  The one program that the company will not be presenting in Fayetteville is the yoga and sound workshop.For the yoga and sound workshop, Brook, a yoga instructor, leads participants in yoga practice while the Earth Harp is played.
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  Brook (www.yogagirl.com) is also a flier and combines yoga with aerial performance.
  
  "I'll be just off the ground to create an interaction between myself and the ground and myself and the singer," Brook said.
  
  Brook will also be doing an original spoken word piece, which is included on one of MASS Ensemble's four albums.
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  Performing with Close and Brook will be MASS Ensemble members Chris Woods who will play electric violin and veteran jazz drummer and percussionist Richard Sherwood, who will add an element of improv.
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  "He [Sherwood] is one of those people who can sit down in any situation and play the right thing and guide where it will go," Brook said.
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  "We think about what a site calls for," Brook said.
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  Brook said Sala will "draw the audience in" for a more intimate performance.
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  "What's really neat about it, they [the instruments] don't eliminate anyone," Brook said.

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  MASS Ensemble - Biographies - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/9/2003    Last Visited: 2/9/2003  

  Andrea Brook
  
  Andrea brings her love of music and yoga to the air as an aerial performer with MASS Ensemble.Her presence in the Ensemble offers yet another alternative perspective to the way we play music and dance.Suspended upside down in space, off of a wall or just inches from the ground, Andrea explores either MASS's unique long string and percussive instruments from every angle or movement free from the boundaries of the ground.A yoga teacher in Los Angeles, Andrea is inspired by the power and beauty of traditional yoga asana, and her movements often resembles yoga in flight.A serious student of yoga, she has visited India twice, first to study Astanga yoga in Mysore, India with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, then to study Integral Yoga in Rishikesh, India with Swami Vivekananda.Andrea feels that her yoga practice liberates her from physical limitations as well as the limitations of fear and self-doubt and teaches her how to move through life with ease and grace.Her aerial practice further sets her free.To learn more, visit Andrea's website: yogagirl.com.

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  MASS Ensemble - Biographies - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/7/2004    Last Visited: 4/7/2004  

  Andrea Brook
  
  Andrea brings her love of music and yoga to the air as an aerial performer with MASS Ensemble.Her presence in the Ensemble offers yet another alternative perspective to the way we play music and dance.Suspended upside down in space, off of a wall or just inches from the ground, Andrea explores either MASS's unique long string and percussive instruments from every angle or movement free from the boundaries of the ground.
  
  A yoga teacher in Los Angeles, Andrea is inspired by the power and beauty of traditional yoga asana, and her movements often resembles yoga in flight.

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  Published on: 8/31/2003    Last Visited: 12/30/2003  

  The performance-art group Mass Ensemble strung its giant "Earth Harp" from the Space Needle, where LA dancer/singer/yoga teacher Andrea Brook attracted attention from all with her acrobatic musicianship.

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  New Times L.A. | newtimesla.com | Calendar - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/27/2002    Last Visited: 6/27/2002  

  MASS Ensemble's resident aerialist, Andrea Brook, leads the course "Yoga and Sound," while Close teaches students to make their own instruments.
  
  Audience members, standing beneath the harp's strings, will be engulfed by its vibration and become part of the music, which will be accompanied by cello, bass, percussion and movement."What's neat about it is it becomes a metaphor.

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  Parents Of Light :: Energetic Nurturing - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/18/2007    Last Visited: 9/1/2007  

  Energetic Nuturing by Andrea BrookParents Of Light :: Energetic Nurturing
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  Andrea Brook, Yoga Instructor ExtraordinareAndrea Brook is a private yoga instructor extraordinaire and spiritual consultant on the west side of Los Angeles.She has a gift for intuiting and creating the "perfect practice", in yoga and in life, for each individual's unique body, mind and spirit.She offers the one and only beach yoga class on Venice Beach.In addition to her successful yoga career, Andrea is also a core member of MASS Ensemble (Music, Architecture, Sonic Sculpture), a music and arts performing group.She is a dear friend and colleague and I am honored to have her knowledge and wisdom grace this website.

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