John Sully
John Sully (composer/sound designer/musical director/performer) is a three-time NYSCA award-winning composer, sound designer, multi-instrumentalist, and graduate of Yale’s Sound Design program. His music for stage and film has crossed the globe, including numerous cities in Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Europe, Eastern Europe, North and South America. As a multi-instrumentalist, he has shared the stage with such notables as Martin Chambers, Bo Diddley, Fishbone, Albert King, and Noel Reading.
He has been combining his music with contemplative practices for over 25 years. At the original NYC Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, John performed his original scores alongside the live painting events of American visionary artist, author, and Vajrayana practitioner, Alex Grey. Along with his explorations of spirituality and music, he is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church, made famous by its ads in the back of Rolling Stone.
Sully first learned music on the street, in the clubs, and at warehouse parties in New York City during the 1980’s, where he was deeply enmeshed in the squatter-culture of the Lower East Side at that time. It was from deep inside this lawless atmosphere that he first developed his aesthetic and vision as a composer, musician, and sound artist. He has since studied music all over the world, including recent studies of doumbek, kamancheh, riq, and tabla with masters in Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.