Shannon Michael Terry

Artist - Producer - Composer - Creative Director Born in Los Angeles, Shannon is as a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in the visual arts, , music, film and sound. As a multi-instrumentalist, Shannon’s main instrument is the Array Mbira, a 120-note instrument that combines the metal plectrum of an African Mbira and the Tetraktys, a mathematical idea and metaphysical symbol that embraces principles of the natural world and Cosmos. In 1996, he was featured as an overtone singer for the documentary, Quest for the Secret Chamber, where he traveled to Egypt to sing and record in the Great Pyramid of Cheops. In 1998, as resident composer of the Bureau of Arts and Culture in Los Angeles, he began to explore the relat...