Join acclaimed vibraphonist Chris Dingman, whose work was described by The New York Times as “hypnotizing," and special guest sound artist Zaneta, for a trance healing music journey in the beautifully resonant space of The Angel Nyack!

Chris plays the vibraphone - a unique and beautiful instrument - in a singular, virtuosic way using the waves and layers of sound along with his voice to bring listeners into a heightened meditative state where healing, connection, visions, and inspiration can occur.

It is a dream-like experience that is at once activating, relaxing, and rejuvenating. Projected visuals enhance this sonically rich and expansive journey.

For this edition of the Dreaming Place, special guest interdisciplinary sound artist and ritualist Zaneta will be helping us build a community ancestral altar. We welcome you to bring photos and/or special items of remembrance of loved ones who have passed away, to add to the altar. Zaneta will then guide a meditation to bring us into communion with our loved ones, leading into Chris’s sound journey.

The setting for this journey is the spacious and sonically resplendent sanctuary at The Angel, a new arts & event space set in a beautiful, historic church in the heart of the charming village of Nyack - an ideal space to stretch out and be immersed.

Dream with us in this beautiful and supportive community setting. All are welcome!

What to expect from this experience:

A warm welcome
A place to sit or lie down - three options, see below
You are invited to bring a photo and/or item of remembrance to add to the community ancestral altar
Zaneta will guide the group in a meditation, bringing all into grounded, centered space and into connection with departed loved ones
Chris will play a 60-minute immersive channeled sound journey, using vibraphone and vocals
As the journey comes to a close, you will be gently brought back into physical awareness and invited to reflect on the experience, noting new perspectives, guidance, or anything else that comes up
There will be a brief sharing/integration time after and thank you

Three options for seating - what to bring

Option 1: Sound Bath Style on the floor in front of the stage - bring a mat, blanket, and anything else you’d like to lie down comfortably -*space for this is limited to 20 people*
Option 2: Meditation or Reclined style
Seated on cushioned pews - bring a pillow to get extra comfy
Option 3: "Sleeping in church" style
Lying down on cushioned pews - bring a pillow, optional blanket (and please don't forget to remove your shoes)

Schedule
7:00pm Doors open, building the altar
8:00pm Vibraphone & vocal journey with Chris Dingman
Doors will be locked after this time
9:15pm Journey ends, optional sharing and integration at the back of the room

About Chris Dingman
An acclaimed musician of many genres, Chris Dingman has been performing on the vibraphone for 25+ years, including with celebrated masters Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and many others. He brings together this background with a host of studies and influences from around the world, in service of taking listeners on a journey to a transcendent place.

Working in the fields of jazz, experimental, and world music for decades, Chris’s trajectory changed when, in 2018, his father entered hospice. Chris played and recorded meditative music as an act of care for him in his final months of life. This music became the 5-hour extended album Peace.

Since then, Chris has brought his special brand of healing music journeys far and wide, from live sessions at Omega Institute and The Rubin Museum of Art to his regular online series Transformations and Transformations for Grief, his work with the Psychedelic Sangha, music for mediumship, and much more. His critically acclaimed albums Journeys vol. 1 and vol. 2, are described by The New York Times as “hypnotizing,” and by Jazz at Lincoln Center as “absolutely beautiful.”

Chris has presented talks and performances at the Gold Foundation Conference on Humanism in Medicine, the American College of Physicians, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NYC), and written for the Johns Hopkins Medicine blog. He has been profiled by NPR, the New York Times, AMNY, and many other publications, and has received fellowships and grants from Chamber Music America, New Music USA, South Arts, and the Thelonious Monk Institute.

Check out his music, videos and more at chrisdingman.com

About Zaneta Sykes

Zaneta is a Filipinx interdisciplinary sound artist, nature recordist, and medium whose work deepens community relationships with local wilderness through the reciprocal and sacred practices of listening and sounding.

Drawing inspiration from their lola sa tuhód (great-grandmother) and her work as a hilot healer in Iloilo, Philippines, Zaneta collaborates with land in multi-modal ways, weaving hyper-local field recordings, environmental studies, and activism, with sound art, storytelling, community art, painting, ritual, percussion, and vocal channeling, to create experiences of deep communion with the more-than-human world.

Their work examines how listening and sounding, as inherently relational and reciprocal experiences, are essential eco-social practices that not only raise awareness of our close connections to non-human kin, but cultivate a unique sense of empathy and interconnectedness that is foundational to stewardship, and ultimately plays a vital role in environmental futures.

Zaneta’s work has been presented in spaces such as the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, and featured on WKNY Radio Kingston, and Wave Farm Radio. Their past projects Sacred Seasons (2020) and Where Land Meets Sky: Geophonic Transmissions for the Body (2022), were awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council grants, and they were a 2025 Strange Foundation Artist in Residence. In 2026 their project, How to Befriend a Mountain was awarded the Arts Alive Grant through Arts Westchester.

Zaneta currently serves as the environmental artist-in-residence at Marydell Faith and Life Center at Hook Mountain in Nyack, NY. They also teach field recording, listening, and land communing workshops in the Hudson Valley.

Their upcoming album, Invitations from the Land: the Zena Highwoods, was created in partnership with the Woodstock Land Conservancy and will be premiering at the historic Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock, September 25, 2026.

About The Angel

The Angel is a new arts & event space taking flight in the heart of the village of Nyack, NY. Join us as we breathe new life into a beautiful, historic church.

The Angel is at the heart of the charming village of Nyack, where unique restaurants, shops and a large municipal parking lot are within steps. And so is the Hudson River!

More at theangelnyack.com

For those in financial need

A limited number of reduced-rate and free tickets are available for those who would not be able to attend otherwise. If you need one of these options please email us at info@inner-arts.org, and we’ll do our best to support you.

The Dreaming Place: a trance healing music journey

The Dreaming Place: a trance healing music journey