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Mark Adams

Improv-loving ex-expat dependent on sound for atypical journeys

About Me

I��m a longtime North Carolinian who spent more than a decade overseas responding to disasters in Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Sudan, and Micronesia on behalf of the United Nations and US Government. I craved records and live jazz when away, and multiplied listening upon my return in 2016. Jazz and improv place me in the closest approximation of disaster-related and intense experience, challenging me to be fully present in a state of non-labelling and appreciation.

I am on the board of Synchronicity Arts, a nonprofit that hosts monthly improvised music and movement house concerts in Durham, NC. I��ve written for PopMatters and Dusted, and my photographs have appeared in Oxfam Australia, Rotary International publications, The Zimbabwean newspaper and within the novel Zimbabwe: Years of Hope and Despair.

My House Concert Story

Visit synchronicityarts.org to check out the monthly music and movement house concerts I help host. As a non-profit, all door funds go to the artists. Our mission is to facilitate exceptional experiences for artists and audiences through multi-disciplinary improvisation and collaboration.