you can see the video i made for german DJ trio homewreckers’ track “the other side of town” from their latest cd.
watch it here. enjoy.
pics from montreal
thank you to the very camera ready patrick graham for taking these pictures of me @ the montreal performance of shruti.
while we are on the subject of visuals, be sure to check the vimeo page.
juno goodness!
maryem and ernie tollar have been nominated for their CD ‘cairo to toronto’, an album i had the pleasure of playing on.
also nominated in the vocal jazz category is yvette tollar for ima. yvette did me the very great honour of choosing my song “fall down” to include on the CD of covers by canadian artists. i originally wrote “fall down” for maza meze.
can i get a woop woop?
vimeo
hey y’all
just joined vimeo. take a look there or i would rather you went to see it on my myspace. have some new music up as well.
montreal/toronto shruti mini tour
getting a quick coffee @ caffe art java in montreal, the day after my shruti performance @ concordia university’s annual electroacoustic music festival. wednesday night saw me @ the night bazaar concert series in toronto. despite a very large snowstorm, we had a respectable turnout for a 3 set evening of improvised music on a school night.
some notes about montreal:
a) the coffee is awesome. come here and drink it. thanks ben for hipping me to it via patrick.
b) the music at this festival is also awesome. i haven’t spent enough time doing concentrated EA listening, and hearing it in a big room with great speakers, and other people is especially great. there is a great lineup here, check the website and get hip to some of these people if you haven’t already! thanks very much to eldad tsabary and max and julian stein for putting me up, putting up with me, and inviting me to the festival.
pics to follow….cheers from the sexiest city in canada.
new
so i counted. with any luck, there will be 4 new ds cds this year. here’s hoping.
one of them will use a certain amount of bass. so i thought i would celebrate this with a little video.
ta.
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says it all.
2008/2009
it has been some time since my last post, and things are starting to wrap up here @ old monkey studios.
its been pretty memorable, really (see the post before this one). but there is no point going over a list of what happened, that’s what this blog is for.
i will say that 2009 promises to be full of great projects:
*a new solo CD is in the works, as well as documentation/recording projects with ensemble polaris, evergreen club gamelan maza meze (yes!) and more.
*i will be starting the creative process with the unbelieveable peggy baker, creating audio and video for an upcoming 1/2 hour dance work. possible CD release is being considered as well.
*robert lippok and i are in the planning stages for some canadian concerts and possibly a CD recording
*work continues on audio and video pieces that will be influenced by the drumming and recording i did in kolkata this past fall
*who the heck knows what else? that should keep me relatively busy i should think….
all the best to you and yours.
there is hope again
“First they ignore you, then they fight you, then they laugh at you, then you win.”
Gandhi
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back in toronto
well, kolkata was more hectic than i had imagined. all my well meant intentions to keep up blog posts failed in the light of puja dhakis, pollution, sweets, and arguments about shah rukh khan. there are worse ways to spend a month i think.
lots of video footage, lots of audio has been collected and will be processed over the winter, perhaps into something new.
in the meantime, you can check out the promo video for “when the gods came down to earth”, below. its pretty impressive, if i do say so myself—i did not get the chance to see it personally as i was in banff at the time. the music for this video is one of the later pieces—in all there is about 35 minutes of sound. further info on the project is available on the website.
until next time…
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