Author Archives: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Music Listings – 4/22 through 4/28

1. GO: ORGANIC ORCHESTRA

Date: Monday, April 22, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz/jazz orchstra improv

Composer Adam Rudolph returns with another series of Go: Organic Orchestra to Shapeshifter. In concert he will conduct between 20 – 35 musicians in a spontaneous way, using a newly created score of music/letter grids, language themes, tone rows, traditional and synthetic scales, diadic and intervalic harmonies, The compositions will also utilize Rudolph’s rhythm concept of “Cyclic Verticalism” to generate form and weave what he calls an “audio syncretic music fabric”. The music is “organic” in the sense that the compositions and conducting exist as an inspiration and context for the musicians to express themselves by using their instruments as an amplifier for their inner voice.

2. Soul Understated featuring Mavis “Swan” Poole

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Brooklyn, NY Musical Instrument Shop of Retrofret Vintage Guitars Featured on WNBC-TV and WNYC-FM in segments about a new book “Kalamazoo Gals”.

Kalamazoo Gals, the book by John Thomas is the forgotten story of the women who built Gibson’s “Banner” guitars during WWII. Following the success of the March 2nd book signing at Retrofret Vintage Guitars in Gowanus Brooklyn, NY, there has been additional TV / Radio / Newspaper / Blog media coverage on March 8th, which was  “International Women’s Day”, as well as throughout March for “Women’s History Month”.

The following are some of the media links:

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