Date: Monday, November 29, 2010
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: The Roulette (20 Greene St., NY)
Ticket: $15
Genre: Jazz/contemporary
Composer Adam Rudolph returns with another series of Go: Organic Orchestraat Roulette. In concert he will conduct between 20 – 35 musicians in a spontaneous way, using a newly created score of music/letter grids, language themes, tone rows, traditional and synthetic scales, diadic and intervalic harmonies, The compositions will also utilize Rudolph’s rhythm concept of “Cyclic Verticalism” to generate form and weave what he calls an “audio syncretic music fabric”. The music is “organic” in the sense that the compositions and conducting exist as an inspiration and context for the musicians to express themselves by using their instruments as an amplifier for their inner voice.
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Since coming to New York I have been hungry to see and meet all kinds of musicians. I have met so many great musicians meanwhile that I decided to feature some of them in DooBeeDooBeeDoo. So when my guitarist, Alejandro Castellano, talked about an Indian-American trumpet player by the name of Satish, I immediately got interested in this gentleman. I liked the idea that an Indian-American plays the valve/slide trumpet and incorporates Indian scales and sounds in his music.
I asked him to hook me up with Satish. He emailed me his Facebook address and his website. In his website, which was very interesting, I found out about his projects and music background. After doing my Satish research I decided to meet him in person which happened at Nublu, October 29th, when he was playing with the Underground Horns.
Videos selected by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Date: December 16-18, 2010
Time: 8:00 pm on the 16th &17th, 2pm and 7:30pm on the 18th
Venue: The Cathedral of St. John the Divine (1047 Amsterdam Ave., NY)
Tickets: $35-$80 ( https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/8455145)
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Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
When I was very young watching TV was something special in my life. Watching TV was more than entertainment…it was education! It taught me something new everyday. I became a different person after a while. One of my favorite programs was a silent movie comedy show which was shown once every week. My younger brother and I watched it together. After the show finished, we went to bed with a joy and satisfaction.
All important comedians were featured, such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon, and many more. But the first three ones were my favorite ones. They made comedy into an art form. Comedy was not only used to entertain people but also to make them aware of social and political issues in a funny way. Music played also an important role. On one hand it was a very important voice in expressing human feelings and communication, and on the other hand it supported the performance of the actors.
All this said, please watch this video which features the maestros Chaplin and Keaton in Limelight.
