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Event Description

Total Response brings together sound and Simran—a focused practice of the mind rooted in contemporary Sikh philosophy—to upend traditional notions of performer and audience. Embracing harmolodics—the free interplay of harmony, melody, and rhythm—a collective of six multi-instrumentalists and a Simran practitioner will foster the co-creation of music and sound with concert attendees. Together, we will build a resonant sonic structure that celebrates both individual expression and collective presence. By way of this shared experience, Total Response invites us to reawaken the mind’s resilience through pathways of compassion. Artists include Carlos Niño (also the concert’s music director), Surya Botofasina, Austin Williamson, and Michael Alvidrez, with Special Guests Ishmael Butler and Angel Bat Dawid, and “Koi” guiding and voicing Simran.

A recording of the concert will become the heartbeat of a sound installation in the forthcoming Wellin Museum exhibition Nirbhai (nep) Singh Sidhu and without SHAPE without FORM: Awakened by the Unstruck, opening Fall 2027.

Funding for this program has been provided by the Daniel W. Dietrich ’64 Arts Museum Programming Fund, Wellin Museum of Art; the Performing Arts Series at Wellin Hall Schambach Center; the Pellman Fund for the Arts; and the Fillius Jazz Archive.

Total Response is co-organized by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Nep Sidhu, without SHAPE without FORM, and the Performing Arts Series at Hamilton College.

Admission is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are available in advance or at the door.