Utah artist Marko Johnson's career began with working with leather in the early 70's, and continues to this day. Most of my designs are multi functional with an emphasis on simplicity, Creating and developing the production model is what I like to do best.

About the art

In the early 90's I was introduced to "rawhide", yet another form of leather. I quickly developed techniques to dye rawhide rather than paint it: I designed my own style of drum rings and have since made thousands of hand held frame drums and experimented in creating many types of primitive instruments.

Then it happened! In September, 1993 I was introduced to the Australian Didjeridoo. The deep haunting drone produced by softly blowing into this ancient wind instrument has held my attention for over 5 years and I have learned to make my own version of the Didjeridoo using many different materials as well as developed many non traditional methods of painting or decorating this mystic tool. But there is so much more .........

Learning to play the Didjeridoo and learning to circular breath has opened doors that never even existed before. In the past 5 years I have performed and recorded many times, held "How to play didjeridoo" workshops and taught many people how to circular breath.

Please keep in mind that with no previous musical background and an introverted personality, having many newspaper, radio, television and Internet interviews was nothing short of a miracle to me, I learned about music theory, sound therapy, vibrational healing, even taught a class at the University of Utah concerning the stress relieving benefits of the didjeridoo.

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