From mddeutsch at gmail.com Tue Oct 18 20:14:02 2011 From: mddeutsch at gmail.com (mark deutsch) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:14:02 -0700 Subject: [Bazantar] performance this Friday, October 21st at 8:00pm. Message-ID: > > Mark Deutsch will be performing this Friday, October 21st at 8:00pm. > > *Yoga du Soleil: Maison of Healing Arts* > *224 Divisadero St. (between Haight and Waller) > San Francisco 94117 > * > * > * > *Concert at 8pm > Doors will open at 7:30pm and there will be no late seatings* > *Please allow time for parking: In addition to street parking, **there is > a pay parking lot between Oak and Page on Divisadero.** > * > * > Other concert details: > **$12-20 per person sliding scale, cash only. > The performance space is a no-shoes studio space. > Also feel free to bring your own beverage to imbibe at the intermission...! > * > > > *See Mark on YouTube:* > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crSi9IxPfYA > * > For more information about Mark and the Bazantar, see his website:* > www.bazantar.com > > Solo Acoustic Wizards 10/21/2011Mark Deutsch: Bazantar > > Mark Deutsch can best be described as a 21st century Renaissance man. A > professional musician since the age of twelve, he is a visionary artist with > a background in non-linear mathematics, sacred systems and cosmology. As a > classically trained bassist and sitar player he has gained extensive > experience in orchestral ensembles, world music traditions, jazz combos, and > solo sitar performance. Whilst studying sitar and North Indian classical > music with the legendary Ustad Imrat Khan, Mark began delving deeper into > the universal fundamentals of music and their underlying frequency > structures. These studies culminated in 1999 with Mark being awarded the US > patent for his ground breaking new instrument the Bazantar - a five-string > acoustic bass fitted with an additional twenty-nine sympathetic strings and > four drone strings. The result is a remarkable instrument that weaves a > mesmerizing soundscape of resonance, and evokes all the power of Western > classical music with the depth and nuance of Eastern traditions. > > The Bazantar possesses a melodic range of over five octaves, while its > sympathetic range spans four octaves. This results in an interplay between > melodic, sympathetic, and drone strings which weaves an unexpected landscape > of resonance that is remarkably rich in texture. In creating the > Bazantar, Mark had to explore the mathematics of sound, particularly > music's underlying frequency structure. This search revealed nonlinear > mathematical patterns that exist in sound and are found universally in the > natural world, including the over-tone series, fractals, the golden mean, > seashells, and the Fibonacci series. His intent was to create an instrument > that would take advantage of these nonlinear mathematical patterns and make > them more consciously audible. > -------- > > Cornelius Boots: Shakuhachi and Taimu (bass) Shakuhachi > > Cornelius Boots plays renegade nature music on giant Zen bamboo flutes. These > raw bamboo flutes evoke the breathy sound of sacred mysteries and have been > used as meditation tools by esoteric Zen monks and mountain hermits for over > 1000 years. Exploring these earthy sounds creates a connection to Nature > and primordial dream states of consciousness: the trees singing, the mud > chanting, the cave yawning, the sage wandering, the invisible glowing. > > > Tonight?s program will consist of original compositions written by the > performer for the Taimu shakuhachi (*mukyoku*); pieces from the > traditional Japanese repertoire (folk songs, court music, nature music and > Buddhist chant [*honkyoku*] compositions); and additional pieces culled > from random sources including theme music, blues, and classic rock. > > Cornelius Boots is an East Bay composer, performer and instructor > specializing in single-reeds and flutes. He is a dabbler in Tibetan > mysticism and Taoist wizardry, and a devotee of the Respirational Arts. He > has music degrees from Indiana University (BM Clarinet Performance '97, BS > Audio Recording '97, MM Jazz Studies '99) and is currently working towards > his *shihan* (master teaching license) on shakuhachi with Michael Chikuzen > Gould. Recent projects include the composing, calligraphic notation and > recording of a series of 27 etudes (*mukyoku*) for Taimu shakuhachi (large > Zen bamboo flute) and performances and recordings with the elemental > sound-structuring ensemble, Sabbaticus Rex. In 1996 he founded the world?s > only composing bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles, for which he has > written over 60 compositions and arrangements of virtuosic ?heavy chamber > music.? Edmund Welles has released 3 albums, had a handful of featured > performances, awards and commissions from various arts organizations and > shared the stage with Medeski, Martin and Wood, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, > and Extra Action Marching Band. > > > -- > ?????????????????????????????? > Language is inadequate, > The gods sing a hymn of silence, > and I am silently singing. > --- > edmundwelles.com > corneliusboots.com > sabbaticusrex.com > cdbaby.com/edmundwelles4 > facebook.com/edmundwelles > > > > > > > YouTube - Videos from this email Reply Forward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.enabled.com/pipermail/bazantar/attachments/20111018/a926fd95/attachment.htm