Bella Gaia project at Yuri's Night on April 12, 2008.
John F. King II, percussionist performed at Maker Faire 2008 in San Mateo.
Loop!Station performance at Maker Faire 2008 www.loopthis.com Robin Coomer and Sam Bass. One woman, one man, one voice, one cello, multiple layered 'loops' hand tooled and shaped into lovely, cascading, provocative orchestral compositions with an immediate soul-rocking palpability.
Musa Hanhan, an Arabic Jazz Musician performs on Fretless Guitar. He leads two local bands in San Francisco Bay area:
Tangle Tangle by Laterdays performed at “almost” Woodstockhausen 2007.
This performance is based on very unusual and creative musical scores. Parts and pieces of plants or leaves are utilized as notes in Tangle scores. Two sopranos interpret the magical score and sing the unusual notes profoundly. Woodstockhausen is a great creative event for alternative, experimental and computer generated music lovers.
dud is an improvised performance ensemble where a group of musician create the music and lyrics spontaneously. Please note before the performance nobody knows what is the melody or lyrics. With the magic of music, all musician in dud unite around a spontaneous tone or rhythm that someone starts and create an improvised musical art. The music is further enhanced by the improvised visuals such as dance or projected videos. Dancers create movements to the melody and/or rhythm. Tim, the visual artist, utilizes a very sophisticated software with a combination his hardware adaptation to create LIVE visuals for the music. Simultaneously, these Live fascinating and enchanting visuals are projected on the background, musicians or dancers.
This show is a MUST-SEE for alternative/experimental music seekers, funs of live musical visuals, improvised music or dance and software/hardware engineers with a background in audio and visuals.
Have you heard of the quarter notes of Arabic or Middle Eastern Music that cannot be played with most western musical instruments? Musa Hanhan, a San Francisco musician, with a background I classic Jazz and Arabic music has modified a double neck Fretless Guitar. With his arrangement and tuning of his fretless guitar, Musa plays the quarter notes to the beat of Dumbeck (hand-drum) and a Base. Raks-e-Sharghi or Belly dance further enhances the mood and the music.
The Rockasa’s show is a must see for the lovers of quarter tones of Arabic, Turkish or Persian music. The funs of alternative/experimental music can further enjoy the new application of fretless guitar and Musa’s special arrangement.
Elana performed her solo choreographed Belly dance to the live Arabic music in Santa Rosa, California on September 8th, 2007. Elana’s exceptional choreography of Raks-e-Sharghi or Belly dance, combines the beat of the drum with specific and timely body movements. Further her dance sets the perfect mood for the expression of the quarter notes in the Arabic music scale.
Elana’s performance is a MUST-SEE for the funs or students of world dance/Belly dance, choreographers, Middle Eastern Dance and Music seekers.
