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MUSIC SALON BERLIN: 50 YEARS IITM

ENSEMBLE EXTRAKTE

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Musiksalon Berlin: 50 Years IITM:
Project for transtraditional Music

14. & 15. November 2013 in the Vortragssaal of the Ethnological Museum Berlin

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the foundation of the
Institute for TraditionalMusic (IITM) in Berlin by Alain Daniélou ,the Ethnologische Museum Berlin invites for 2 evenings in its series„MUSIKSALON BERLIN“ .
The first eveing is dedicated to Indian Classical Music while the second evening features
a kaleidoscopic view on musical developments with a a strong base in the tradition leading gradually into contemporary froms , rounded up by a DJ ,usimg traditional material.

Thursday, November 14th 2013

6 pm Roundtable about the Situation of „Traditional“ Music today
Roundtable Discussion about the Situation of traditional music today, 17 years after the closing down of the Institute for Traditional Music in Berlin 1996.
with Prof. Dr. Lars Christian Koch (Director of the Musikethnologie, Medien-Technik und Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, Ethnologisches Museum), Johannes Theurer (Radio Europa, rbb), Prof. Dr. Tiago de Oliveira Pinto (Institute of Musicology, The LISZT School of Music Weimar & Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Detlef Diederichsen (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Director of Dept. for Music, Dance & Theatre), Ion de la Riva Guzmán de Frutos (FIND: India-Europe Foundation for New Dialogues), Sandeep Bhagwati (Composer, Canada Research Chair in Inter-X Art Practice and Theory at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University, Montreal/Canada)

8 pm Northindian Ragas in Dhrupad- and Khyal-Style
PT.Ashok Pathak, surbahar & sitar
Tabla: Sandip Bhattacharya
Tanpura: Shamika Pathak

Pandit Ashok Pathak was born in Kolkata and studied with his father Pt. Balaram Pathak.Their school (Gharana) is in close ties with the Darbhanga Gharana of Dhrupad singers of the Mallick Family, well introduced in Berlin. In contrast, this is the first appearance of Ashok Pathak in Berlin. The unique style of the Pathak Gharana is
by known for ist sensitive use of chords and flagolets. He has performed numerous concerts in India and the West, having received honors by the Indian government as well as being nominated „International Man of the Year“. by Cambridge University.

Friday, November 15th 2013

8pm Homage to Alain Daniélou II

Amelia Cuni & Werner Durand

DIASPORAGAS

Amelia Cuni: Dhrupad Vocal, Tanpura, Mirliton

Werner Durand: i nvented & adapted wind instruments, Elektronika

Ray Kaczynski: Mridangam, Percussion

Federico Sanesi: Tabla, Pakhawaj, Percussion
Program

1: North-indian Ragas in Dhrupadstyle

2: Ancient Trends & New Traditions in Indo-European Music

3. Microtonal Ragas by John Cage
Excerpts:
SOLO for VOICE 58 (18 Microtonal Ragas) from SONG BOOKS (John Cage, 1970)

4. HMN ( HISS-mastered Noise)
For Dhrupad Singer, invented & adapted wind instruments,Tabla, Mridangam & Samples of historical recordings of indian music on Wax Cylinder, 78`Shellacks and Radiobroadcasts.

9:30 pm
DJ Zhao [Ngoma Sound/Berlin]

Born in Beijing and residing in Berlin, DJ Zhao creates an exotic mix of electronic dancefloor with elements of traditional music cultures. Under his project name NGOMA SOUND, hybrid genres like Gamelan-Step, Sufi-Baß, Acid-Zouk, and Ju-Ju-Electro are some of the trademarks of the unique NGOMA Soundsystem.

Location:Ethnologisches Museum, Lansstraße 8,

Ethnologisches Museum in Cooperation with Gesellschaft für Traditionelle Musik e.V.,
FIND – Indoeuropean Foundation For New Dialogues and the Indian Embassy, Berlin

www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?objectId=56
www.x-tract-production.de
www.ashokpathak.com
www.wernerdurand.com
http://www.ameliacuni.de
http://ngomasound.com/
 

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ENSEMBLE EXTRAKTE

Sandeep Bhagwati musical development Sören Birke duduk, jew's harp, Hu-Lu-Si, Feedbacks Amelia Cuni Indian Singing, tanpura Klaus Janek double bass, electronics Cathy Milliken oboe Farhan Sabbagh Ud, Mazhar, Riqq Gregor Schulenburg flutes, duduk, overtone singing and flute Ravi Srinivasan tabla, vocal, whistles, percussion

Curated by x-tract-production

In the ENSEMBLE EXTRAKTE, musicians play on European and non-European instruments. Cultural diversity is central in this project. The ensemble offers a close-up view of the music cultures of the East, West, North and South. The goal is to create an unconventional repertoire that breaks the mold of what we consider to be fusion projects. Tradition is embraced, and both present and future are captured through intensity and time! Sounds, melodies, rhythms, techniques, volumes and moods form the basis for a colourful canon of musical discovery. The new body of sound is created in conjunction with the musicians. The ensemble consists of acclaimed musicians who understand listening as a dynamic process and are not afraid to explore new possibilities of music creation.

"Ensemble Extrakte presents the results of the first probing week with prestigious musicans from Berlin with various musical backgrounds. How can we develop new dialogues, worlds of sensation and sound beyond stereotypes with the use of traditional instruments and conventional ways of playing music? All musicians live in Berlin – can our collective reality help us perceive each other on a new musical level?” Sandeep Bhagwati

"Ensemble Extrakte - a new experiment in my ongoing search to make trans-traditional music in a new way that avoids both the colonial and brashly eurocentric universalism of the "International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) and the at least 5000 different shades of exoticist, orientalist, half-baked music "fusions". Could there be another approach, one that - while remaining wary of the aesthetic benefits of an indiscriminate and syncretic mixing of musical traditions - still opens up to what they can mutually afford each other, and how their disparate musical worldviews can come together to produce a music that not only mirrors but perhaps even presages the globalized age and its many trans-traditional lifestyles- and problems ? This project, thankfully initiated by Elke Moltrecht, takes a new step in this murky terrain. I am glad to be a part of it from its inception..." Sandeep Bhagwati