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Research news and event update from Sandeep Bhagwati
Music Professor and Canada Research Chair Sandeep Bhagwati is having a busy fall. Here are some news and event highlights from his upcoming performances and travels.
November 4, 5 to 7:30 p.m., matralab (Concordia University, EV 4.520)
Musicking the Body Electric: The First Year Compositions
In this four year research-creation project, also dubbed the body:suit: score project, a multi-university, multi-disciplinary team (Joanna Berzowska, Concordia; Marcelo Wanderly, McGill; Isabelle Cossette, McGill) develops a body suit that can serve as a score to musicians, using up to 32 vibrating actuators - and composers with a diverse range of musical aesthetics then write pieces to be performed with this suit. After the first year, Julian Klein (Berlin) and I have written pieces for solo performers Sarah Albu and Felix del Tredici – observers and commentators are invited to come and see/hear these pieces and engage in a critical discussion with the research team on future possibilities. Bhagwati’s piece will also be performed on November 6 as part of the Learning. Teaching and Music Technology conference at McGill University.
November 6, 5 a.m. Middle European Time (MET), Deutschlandradio Kultur
Dhvanivala. Eine Spurensuche. (World premiere)
World premiere broadcast of Bhagwati’s latest radio-play. Written and performed in German, it traces the life and work of a forgotten Sound Art pioneer in 1960s Bombay of whose sound art pieces not a single audible trace remains. The broadcast will be streamed live on www.dradio.de [select Deutschlandradio Kultur in the Player). In Montreal, Bhagwati will host a little listening party for all germanophones on November 5 at 6 p.m. at matralab.
November 16, Kala Chaya Cultural Centre, Pune, 7 p.m.
Dhvani Sutras - Ensemble Sangeet Prayog Pune (World premiere)
Dhvani means sound and Sutras means rule/instruction/formula. A concert with Indian musicians playing to interactive & graphic scores, memorized rule trees and other Sutras devised by me. After the concert, Bhagwati along with Sameer Dublay, Aparna Gurav, Sweekar Katti, Pramod Gaikwad, Rahul Singh, Charudatt Phadke and Govind Bhilare will go into studio to record it for CD for Underscore records. With
This concert is part of a long-term international research-creation project of Bhagwati’s, exploring the globalized sound of three cities – Montreal, Berlin and Pune. In many workshops, try-outs and rehearsals, multi-traditional ensembles in each city take their time to discover each other’s music and, through collaborative creations, develop their own unique music. Partner Ensembles are the Sound of Montreal and the Ensemble Extrakte Berlin.
November 26, Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Musicology and Media Studies, Berlin, 6 p.m.|
Musicking the Body Electric. Körperpartituren für wandernde Musiker.
Lecture (in German) as part of the distinguished lecture series: “Music, Bodies, Vibrations”. A first report and insights on the body:suit:score research-creation project, outlining the premises, results of experiments and aesthetic questions related to this project.
December 1, Korean Cultural Institute Berlin, 6 p.m.
"The Voice as Theatre" - On Younghi Pagh-Paan's Vocal Works
In a concert-symposium honouring the 70th birthday of major Korean composer Younghi Pagh-Paan, Bhagwati has been asked to give a lecture about Pagh-Paan’s works for voices and the very particular intercultural texture of her vocal writing.
December 6, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 8 p.m.
Miyagi Haikus for quartet (World premiere)
The Stuttgart Open Music Project, a community new music initiative, will celebrate its 10th anniversary by performing new works from their favourite composers. Bhagwati’s score "Miyagi Haikus" inspired them to create their own version.
December 13, KuLe Berlin
Poems and Tunings - Ensemble Extrakte (World premiere)
Ensemble Extrakte is an ensemble of inter-traditional musicians that Bhagwati founded with Elke Moltrecht in 2013.
In the 5th concert program, Bhagwati explores the complex interplay of language and musical tradition with Catherine Milliken, Deniza Popova, Jieun Kang, Klaus Janek, Sören Birke, Gregor Schulenburg and Farhan Sabbagh.
This concert is part of a long-term international research-creation project of Bhagwati’s, exploring the globalized sound of three cities – Montreal, Berlin and Pune. In many workshops, try-outs and rehearsals, multi-traditional ensembles in each city take their time to discover each other’s music and, through collaborative creations, develop their own unique music. Partner Ensembles are the Sound of Montreal and the Sangeet Prayog Ensemble Pune.
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