JI & Microtones in NYC - Nov. & Dec. 1999

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the World Financial Center presents:
David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir

Wednesday, November 17
6:30pm
Winter Garden

http://www.worldfinancialcenter.org
_______________________________________________________
Sasha Bogdanowitsch
�An Ocean Walks Behind a Lake�

An evening of multimedia works for solo voice
and prepared tape in just intonation, which combine
music, movement and theater.

Wednesday & Thursday, December 1st & 2nd, 8 pm, $8

Galapagos Art & Performance Space
70 N 6th St. (between Wythe & Kent Aves)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718 782-5188)
Subway: L to Bedford Ave.

The original works are influenced by and use
techniques and instruments from the musics of India,
Indonesia, Turkey and the Medieval & 20th
century Western world, and are all performed in the
pure acoustical tunings of just intonation that
originate from Nature�s harmonic
series.
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HOBOS & SENATORS
MUSIC BY DEAN DRUMMOND & HARRY PARTCH

Sunday, December 5, 8pm
Sonic Boom 8
The Great Hall
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
7th Street & Third Avenue
New York City

$15/$10 students/seniors
Ticket Ordering and information:
Ticket Central: 1-8PM, daily - 212-279-4200
or 416 W 42nd Street
http://www.ticketweb.com (24 hours)
Tickets available at door on evening of concert only.

http://www.spyral.net/newband/120599.htm
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The program started slightly after 6:30 and ran until about 8:00, with brief interruptions between pieces, not long enough to call intermissions. It started with "Spectral Path", a mostly vocal solo with some percussion accompaniment towards the end, followed by "Wave Tidings", a vocal duet, and then " Rainbow Dance" for four musicians, then "Deserted Temple" with voices and instruments, and ending with one of the seven movements of
"The Rainbow Fields", a "movement in Mode Three" (whatever that is). This latter was a world premiere.
"Rainbow Dance" is due out soon on a Phoenix CD (a Danish label). There have been seven or eight prior CD's and even a LP before that (perhaps duplicated on CD).
The group's website is www.harmonicworld.com.
They were hoping to give more performances during the next two weeks while here in NYC, but none had been scheduled and they did not call me back to let me know of any.
Their singing style is intended to fuse chant, singing and meditation. Singers produce two tones simultaneously, a fundamental and an overtone (at least some of the time), said to be similar to Tuvan throat-singing. (I can do this to a limited extent in whistling, but hadn't guessed it could be done in singing.) The overall effect sounded to me very like some of the "New Age" music I've heard.
Although I concentrated on listening for "beats" so as to tell whether just intonation was being used (it seemed largely so), I could clearly see (from up front, near the stage) that the two fretted instruments (one was a guitar) had frets straight across the fingerboard, indicating equal temperament.

>>> David Beardsley <xouoxno@virtulink.com> 11/16 8:41 AM >>>
From: David Beardsley <xouoxno@virtulink.com>

_______________________________________________________
the World Financial Center presents:
David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir

Wednesday, November 17
6:30pm
Winter Garden

http://www.worldfinancialcenter.org
_______________________________________________________
Sasha Bogdanowitsch
*An Ocean Walks Behind a Lake*

An evening of multimedia works for solo voice
and prepared tape in just intonation, which combine
music, movement and theater.

Wednesday & Thursday, December 1st & 2nd, 8 pm, $8

Galapagos Art & Performance Space
70 N 6th St. (between Wythe & Kent Aves)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718 782-5188)
Subway: L to Bedford Ave.

The original works are influenced by and use
techniques and instruments from the musics of India,
Indonesia, Turkey and the Medieval & 20th
century Western world, and are all performed in the
pure acoustical tunings of just intonation that
originate from Nature*s harmonic
series.
_______________________________________________________
HOBOS & SENATORS
MUSIC BY DEAN DRUMMOND & HARRY PARTCH

Sunday, December 5, 8pm
Sonic Boom 8
The Great Hall
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
7th Street & Third Avenue
New York City

$15/$10 students/seniors
Ticket Ordering and information:
Ticket Central: 1-8PM, daily - 212-279-4200
or 416 W 42nd Street
http://www.ticketweb.com (24 hours)
Tickets available at door on evening of concert only.

http://www.spyral.net/newband/120599.htm
_______________________________________________________

--
* D a v i d B e a r d s l e y
* xouoxno@virtulink.com
*
* J u x t a p o s i t i o n N e t R a d i o
* M E L A v i r t u a l d r e a m house monitor
*
* http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm

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