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\u201cJohnson has been exploring various aspects of the flute from the quantum physics of sound, to healing meditative applications of playing, to courtship. When he\u2019s not riding the waves of his flute\u2019s sound he\u2019s riding the ocean\u2019s waves\u2014 he\u2019s been an avid surfer for over 18 years.\u00a0 Johnson has been exploring various aspects of the flute from the quantum physics of sound, to healing meditative applications of playing, to courtship. When he\u2019s not riding the waves of his flute\u2019s sound he\u2019s riding the ocean\u2019s waves\u2014 he\u2019s been an avid surfer for over 18 years.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Walter J. Johnson<\/h1>\n

Carly J.J. Turner, Society for Ritual Arts Artist in Residence<\/span>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_5″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Content Block” _builder_version=”4.3.4″ background_image=”https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/coreopsis\/spring-2020-issue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/paper-texture.png” custom_margin=”0px||0px||true|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||true|false” saved_tabs=”all”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_5,3_5,1_5″ _builder_version=”3.26.7″][et_pb_column type=”1_5″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/coreopsis\/spring-2020-issue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Stormy-Wind-e.png” _builder_version=”4.3.4″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”3.26.6″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.3.4″ custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px|||”]<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Walter J. Johnson has a down-to-earth but incredibly interesting life. He spends his time surfing, researching, lecturing, storytelling, writing, playing the flute and holding ceremonial space.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s Indian name is Ogi-Mow-Gaboo, he is of Potawatomi\/Ho-Chunk mixed-European descent. He carries a B.A. in American Studies, minored in American Indian Studies, and has guest lectured at Berkeley City College.<\/p>\n

Over the past 27 years he has researched indigenous life\u2014 social, cultural, inter-tribal relations, and the physical land and resources and how they relate to indigenous flute making and playing.<\/p>\n

He has been playing the flute for over 26 years in the San Francisco Bay Area and has performed for the American Indian Child Resource Center Oakland, the Berkeley Indigenous Peoples Day Pow-Wow, the Inter-Tribal Friendship house of Oakland and San Francisco. Johnson has played over an estimated 2,000 events since the early \u201890s, including funerals, weddings, guest lectures and library performances.<\/p>\n

Johnson has been exploring various aspects of the flute from the quantum physics of sound, to healing meditative applications of playing, to courtship. When he\u2019s not riding the waves of his flute\u2019s sound he\u2019s riding the ocean\u2019s waves\u2014 he\u2019s been an avid surfer for over 18 years.<\/p>\n

With these two loves\u2014 surfing and flute playing\u2014 he has a great idea of the way waveforms move, the way matter moves.<\/p>\n

He says that the scales on the flute can produce a multitude of wave frequencies, either a single note or a particular scale. He points out that humans are made of up to 60% water<\/a> and that water is directly affected by sound.<\/p>\n

His ultimate goal is to understand the cause and effect of these frequencies on the human. He intends to further research\u00a0 the science of the flute and how frequency plays an important role in the physics of human nature.<\/p>\n

To Johnson, the flute is \u201cmystical, almost magical, it brought me a really deep connection to the earth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He recalled the first time playing the flute when he was young. \u201cIt was a moment when you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, this is who I am.\u2019 It was a magical experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson believes the indigenous flute deserves a place in sound therapy and that it should be recognized by the academic and scholastic communities as an instrument of the First Nations people.<\/p>\n

Generations of his family have played the flute and have done so with great respect for the art and ritual.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t drink alcohol. I cleanse myself four days before [playing] warmups [with the flute] and cleansing by fasting,\u201d says Johnson.<\/p>\n

The ceremonial aspects of playing flute are very important to him, he won\u2019t pick it up and just play.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat way, when I pick up the instrument, my body is ready to play it,\u201d adds Johnson.<\/p>\n

Recently he\u2019s been nominated for the 2020 Lost Chord Award and has a fourth upcoming book titled The Other Side of Light<\/i>, about the affects and effects of the indigenous North American flute, a cultural journey.<\/p>\n

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Carly J.J. Turner, aka Mede Potawatamig Ikwe, is O\u2019Jibway from The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe White Earth Indian Reservation and the Wisconsin Bad River LaPointe Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Her Clan is Mukwa-Bear. She holds the honor of being a Pipe-Carrier and a Hollow Bone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carly was trained to be a medicine woman by the late high-level shamanic healer\/indian doctor Fawn Journeyhawk from the Mandan (Crow) and Shawnee tribes. She is also taught her traditional ways from her father Deadgrass.<\/p>\n

When Carly isn\u2019t skipping through a pink-glittered desert speaking with her animal friends, she\u2019s likely to be away fasting and praying or simply enjoying a cup of puerh tea and creating art.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She has an Associates Degree in Art and a Journalism and New Media CCL.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carly has been creating many different mediums of physical art and digital art for over a decade and dreams of creating bigger projects as an expression of her medicine work.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

She hopes to spread her art and healing to many.<\/p>\n

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