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coming soon….

UPDATE: where you are has been featured in both weekly arts magazines in toronto!  click here for the eye weekly mini interview (scroll about halfway down for where you are).  click here for the excellent writeup about the piece in now magazine (the piece is at the bottom of the page):

Next to smell, sound often gives us the most powerful sense of time and place. Debashis Sinha puts callers in two cities at once: any reveller walking through Zone B need only call 1-888-432-5995 to hear audio art pieces constructed from sounds recorded on the streets of Kolkata , India. Sinha’s piece accentuates the odd transpositions of time and space constantly foisted upon us by telecommunications and media. Walk around with both sides of your mind on opposite sides of the planet.

see  you @ nuit blanche

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selected in madrid

one of my audio pieces was just selected for the soundworks program at madrid abierto, a festival of intervention and performance art, TV and radio in february 2008. i had the chance to visit the city this past summer and it is really enchanting, an amazing place.

if you are planning to go, choose february 2008.

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robert lippok will soon be eating my chicken curry

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robert lippok is coming to the goethe institute to present a radio theatre workshop. i will be attending and i can’t wait. besides being a very nice fellow he has been behind some of the most interesting projects i have had the pleasure of discovering.

and—bonus for me!—we will be presenting a concert together at the music gallery of course, thanks to the goethe institute and raster-noton. deets below, and hope to see you there.

Thursday, October 4, 8 pm
Music Gallery, 197 John St., Toronto
Tel: +1 416 2041080
Admission at the door: students and Music Gallery members $5, general public $10

Robert Lippok and Debashis Sinha collaborate in a live concert setting, each artist presenting his own sound world to the other and the audience, reacting, creating, and making music together in the moment. The acoustic and electronic combine to create something unique and new, skin and computer chip, groove and texture, past, present and future joined together.

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nuit blanche coming up–live and installation

nuit blanche is fast approaching and i am busily navigating the web interface for the cell phone piece that i am presenting (see the nuit blanche website for details).  also that evening i will be performing (solo+, 9pm) at the music gallery where a whole slew of some of toronto’s best improvisers and sound experiementers will be performing throughout the night, including ima ensemble members ben grossman (7pm), and andrew downing (10pm).  the whole evening will be mixed in 12 speaker surround by new adventures in sound arts AD darren copeland.  really, its the best way ever to start your evening.

see you there!

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end of summer

the end of summer is nigh.  a different one for me—took a holiday instead of working.  of course now its come to bite me in the butt, but this is in the best way.

scoring the tv documentary Losing My Religion continues.  its looking/sounding good i think.  still working on the nuit blanche projects (see below for more info and a link to one of the pieces).  mark duggan has asked me to record on his new cd in mid september and i will be the percussionist for the small world music festival’s world on a string project, with amir koushkani, rich brown (who is also the musical director), jayme stone, levon ichkhanian, and a few others.  that will be really great—i can’t wait to play the drums again…there seems to be too little of that lately somehow….

and of course the radio theatre workshop led by robert lippok from berlin, being put on by the goethe institute toronto.  4 days of audio art theatre.  woo hoo!  if anyone in the toronto area is interested, email me.  i’m sure i will be writing a post on it….

keep up to date on everything here.

d

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annabelle chvostek’s new cd

the wonderful singer annabelle chvostek (some of you may know her from the wailin’ jennys) is working on a new solo CD, produced by roma baron and vivian stoll (some of you may know them from their production work on laurie anderson’s records).  she’s asked me to play percussion on probably the catchiest track i’ve heard in the last 3 years (and i like catchy tracks).

my first experience with internet sessions—i recorded the tracks at oldmonkeymusic and uploaded them via ftp.  the wave of the future.

check out annabelle’s myspace and her website for release dates and a very entertaining and interesting journal.

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live in berlin aug 4

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i’m in berlin right now. spent the day sightseeing, although that is the worst word for it.

its a city so full of history. i’m staying in mitte, right near the wall in east berlin. 2 min walk from here is an old guard tower. i have been so overwhelmed with history. its been a very emotional day. i can see why the war is still so alive in the collective memory of the german people.

but, on another note, i too will be contributing a bit to the culture of berlin. i make my laptop debut on aug 4 as part of the daskleinefieldrecordings festival, mangling sound i recorded on my latest trip to kolkata and also plundering my own archives of music and phonographic sound in a live improvised set.

deets:

@ wendel (one of the best places in berlin for organic beer!), Schlesische Strasse 42, U-bahn Schlesisches Tor, Kreuzberg (of course).

21:30 doors, 5 Euro.

peace.

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nuit blanche

i’ve started working on the (scotiabank) nuit blanche cell phone pieces.  its really a lot  of fun and a great challenge to try and make pieces that actually work that are 45s or under….

here’s one.