Dreaming in Time Signals by Revant w/ Beatnyk - 11/07/2023

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Audionces | By Yiannis Christidis and Nico Carpentier.

The piece is a sonic 'translation' of “The democratic (media) 
revolution”, by Carpentier, Dahlgren and Pasquali's.

Carpentier, Nico, Dahlgren, Peter, Pasquali, Francesca (2014) “The 
democratic (media) revolution: A parallel history of political and media 
participation”, in Nico Carpentier, Kim Schrøder and Lawrie Hallett 
(eds.) Audience transformations. Shifting audience positions in late 
modernity. London: Routledge, pp. 123-141.

Audionces

Introducing "Hawaai Jahaaz! "

Wrote and composed this one almost a year back in a small room. I think the best part about this composition is that it allows me to experiment with its pattern and structure each time I perform it. I remember working around with a few options when these two notes caught my attention. They did so because they mimicked the sound of the announcement bell in an airplane. 

One thing led to another, and a couple of hours in, "Hawaai Jahaaz" was born.

This is my take on airplane journeys. The mad rush at the airport, the long queues, the wait before boarding, the in flight combination calmness and severe turbulence, the noise of the engines right before take off, and the sound of wheels as they roll outwards before landing.

Please keep your seat belts fastened. कृपया अपने सीट बेल्ट को बांधे रखें!

This one was recorded on a handicam.

Have a safe journey :)

हवाई जहाज़

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Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/23/ursula-k-le-guin-hymn-to-time-janna-levin/

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Astrophysicist Janna Levin reads "Hymn to Time" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Dr Katherine O’Lone, a researcher at the Woolf Institute, joins us in this episode to discuss our recent journey with the Caravan Orchestra and Choir, a performance ensemble that made its debut three years ago at Yiddish Summer Weimar in Weimar, Germany. We followed the orchestra around Germany while they rehearsed and performed a blend of Yiddish and Arabic music, ending with three full-house concerts in Weimar, Leipzig, and Erfurt. We also interviewed the orchestra’s musical directors, whom we will hear from throughout the episode. The goal of the project is to explore new soundscapes, finding new links between the apparently disparate religious and cultural worlds of Europe and the Middle East. Music students from Germany met Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Muslim and Christian musicians from Haifa to perform this eclectic repertoire. Besides exploring the musical connections between these repertoires, we also questioned the effectiveness of the project. Can past shared musical legacies connect modern disparate identities? Featuring Ilya Shneyveys, Sarah Myerson, Jiris Ballan, Luna Abu Nassar, Abigail Wood, and Andreas Schmitgas. 

Ilya Shneyveys is an international performer, accordionist and multi-instrumentalist, teacher, composer, arranger and producer of contemporary Jewish music, from klezmer and Yiddish folk song to fusion and experimental projects.

Sarah Myerson proudly serves the community of Kane Street Synagogue in Brooklyn, New York. She continues to write and perform new compositions, especially in Yiddish and Hebrew, and has developed a profile as a musician, speaker, educator and Yiddish dance teacher and leader.

Jiryis Ballan is a conductor, composer and buzuq player from Nazareth. 

Luna Abu Nassar is a talented singer-songwriter from Nazareth – though she currently lives in Tel Aviv – and she sings both in Arabic and Hebrew. She has recorded and released several albums including 'Dawame'.

Dr Abigail Wood was awarded a PhD in ethnomusicology at Cambridge University and is currently a senior lecturer in the music department at the University of Haifa, Israel. 

Andreas Schmitges is a professional klezmer musician on the guitar and mandolin, a band leader, dance leader, author, festival organizer and Yiddish activist.

On The Caravan Orchestra

An archaic word, one that had its moment and is now long-forgotten, 'momently'  contains a layered and complex sense of time, in each of its three slightly different meanings-
1. from moment to moment; continually
2. at any moment
3. for a moment; briefly

Extracts from T.S Elliot's reading of his poem Burnt Norton have been woven into samples from The Books' Take Time along with recorded and found sounds from our always, already connected everyday. A meditation on time, of the stories and of one's own.

Momently

Suvani Suri

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