berlin again/new site

i’ll be heading back to berlin at the end of january to continue recording with my good friend robert lippok (our previous session in november at the amazing former DDR Rundfunk studio buildings is detailed here —opens in a new window, or you can just scroll down the page).  we will be recording in east berlin at a beautiful small studio owned and run by bernd jestram, one half of the great duo tarwater (the other half is robert’s drummer brother, ronald).

i also have launched version 3.0 of the debsinha.com website.  part of the re launch is to officially “release” the multichannel video installation i made about the passing of my father, entitled he sat on the glittering precipice (many thanks to yvette tollar for the name).  please visit and let me know what you think.

expect more coffee and beer fueled comments from berlin at the end of january.  until then….

pics of DDR Rundfunk

well, i’m back.  still recovering and processing the whole trip.  robert and i recorded @ P4 studio, tracked by the very excellent human christian bader who runs planet roc in the same building.  we got some great music down and generally had a good musical time.  hope to be doing more of this soon.

in the meantime, here, in no particular order and most of them very fuzzy, are some pictures.  also check out the studio websites above—they have some great shots.

best for the holidays.  lots of upcoming things, including a feature in musicworks magazine and an artist talk hosted by vague terrain.

the long threatened CD is on its way as well…..stay tuned.

belfast

well, here i am.  belfast is a lovely city.  the weather is nuts.  the people are so friendly, and i could listen to them talk all day.

finally, after many months of emails, met my (now) good friend yasuhiro morinaga, who did a beautiful set of field recording performance yesterday.  saw some interesting pieces, and a wonderful peformance by d-fuse last night.  looking forward to my set this evening @ black box:

black box (@ soundcheck)

tonight’s performance is the Big Event here @ ISEA today, so i am very excited.  now, if we can only find a step-down transformer…..

radio/CD

the spanish radio piece i spoke about in an earlier post is nearing completion.  my liason for the project is miguel alvarez fernandez, who translated the text i wrote into spanish and recorded the fantastic reading of it by radio clasicá personality gregorio parra.  things sound sooooo much better in spanish.

i am also in the happy position of having 2 options for releasing the new CD.  discussions are ongoing, but expect a late 2009 release as CD and on bandcamp.

i will be in residence as peggy baker’s accompanist this summer for various classes at the national ballet school, as well as for her yearly teacher’s seminar.  playing the drums will be nice—it always is with the inimitable ms. baker.

not to mention the little hurricane that is our daughter leena.

barely

able to stay awake, let alone do any  work.  just returned from india, with our new daughter leena.  as of this writing we have been  home 72 hours.

bliss.

international / Peggy Baker / Lippok

wow, has it been a month?

work continues on the new peggy baker dance project.  the choreography is amazing, and the whole project is really growing into something amazing (read peggy’s journal entry for April 27 here).  the final project will be about an hour long—quite a bit of music/sound and i am having a great time working with peggy and the dancers.  there will also be a duet choreographed by new york city’s own doug varone as part of the program.  i’m very honoured to be creating music for so many great people.

i am thrilled to have been invited to ISEA this year as part of the juried exhibition with a new video work, based on the performance project shruti which i have written about here before.  we are hoping to also arrange a performance of the project as well, and this will be the first time i have made a fixed video work expressly based on the shruti project.

i have also been invited to the re-new festival in copenhagen, and the ex-is festival in seoul to do AV performances, but funding being what it is i am unable to attend.  if you find yourself in these neighborhoods, do give them your patronage.

robert lippok, my friend and cohort, has agreed to record some text for a new audio piece that i am calling the bodhi tree.  he did a fantastic job, and his voice and delivery is spot on and exactly what i had hoped for.  stay tuned for further info on that project.  we are hoping to record this june here in toronto…there are some happy glitches that may not be able to be worked around though.  we’ll see how it goes.

all this and more!  coming this summer to a screen in front of you.