Scott Kungha Drengsen

Oct 24

Composer, Bassist, Meditation Teacher, Bodyworker, Poet—September through October ’22

Website youtube | Based In Oakland, CA

“I am blessed to live near the residency and to have shared its caring, expansive presence with the incredible community of artists it has supported and inspired. While there I was able to write and record ‘Sea without you II’, ‘Songs with Words,’ and ‘With a New Year in Mind.’ My current project, an expansion of Thunder, Perfect Mind (initially composed and recorded at Prince Street as well) is simply inseparable from the meaning, history, and themes I drew upon there. I have many deep, happy memories of watching the sun rise on the beautiful garden and spending time there with my son apart from our regular lives.”

Fretless bassist and early adopter of live-looping technologies, Scott released “Basscapes” in 1998 and “Mourning Guests who Never Arrived” in 2002 right before the birth of his son Jaya. Around this time he was also playing more conventional bass with (Oscar winning) Thoth and the world-fusion, neoclassical ensemble BOGO. He has performed for (or with) Stevie Wonder, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, the Foo Fighters, The Pretenders, and more. He played ambient fretless bass at a release for the Mathew Shepard documentary as well as other films and is a fixture in the worldwide live-looping community. Most recently, Scott was one of 10 finalists in an international solo bass competition (and the only fretless player). He trained with the Ridhwan school and Kalu Rimpoche and is deeply committed to the embodiment of spiritual realisation in his “day job” as a bodyworker.