TriBeCastan's John Kruth & Jeff Greene (photo by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi)

Rock Paper Scissors, Inc. and the oligarchy of TriBeCaStan hosted a reception for APAP presenters and booking agents and DBDBD were invited. The TriBeCaStani cultural attaché made available his personal 5 Star Cave for the event and served a lavish spread of complimentary food and drink. This was one of those once in a lifetime events where the locale, vibe, and company are just right. Displaying the indigenous cultural splendor of TriBeCaStan was the TriBeCaStani Folklorkestra.

When: January 8, 2010/ 5:30 – 7:30+

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TRIBIKESTAN (photo by Doron Gild)

Early this morning when mostly all people were sleeping TriBecastan’s John & Jeff joined the Nuyorican Sufi Conga thumpin’ DJ,film maker, teacher Ibrahim Gonzalez on New Year’s Day WBAI – 99.5 FM this morning at 7 AM!
They talked live, played a couple “strange” instruments and preview TriBecastan’s soon-to-be released second album 5 Star Cave. Featuring guest performances by Al Kooper, Steve Turre, Badal Roy, Charlie Burnham, DeanBowman & Samantha Parton.

Listen to the show here.

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Text by LEMUR director Eric Singer

After more than a year of work and collaboration, I am extremely excited to tell you about the Orchestrion Project. In 2007, 17-time Grammy-winning jazz artist Pat Metheny came to LEMUR with the idea to produce an album and tour backed entirely by robotic musical instruments. This led to a year-long project where we produced an orchestra of nearly 40 robotic instruments, including GuitarBots, mallet instruments and a large array of percussion. These instruments, augmented with several instruments by other roboticists, comprise the Orchestrion, a robotic orchestra entirely under Pat’s compositional and improvisational control.

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Text by the editor

Today I read following news by Frank J Oteri in Facebook: “Frank J Oteri celebrated the 101st birthday of the most miraculous of composers–the still actively composing Elliott Carter–by completing the revisions on his wind quintet, EC apparently just wrote a new one, and by writing a completely new piece of music.”

“Wow”, I thought “this sounds interesting”! Let’s check this composer out whose birthday was yesterday.

So I searched in YouTube for him and found two videos celebrating his 100th birthday last year, such as Frank J. Oteri interviewing Mr. Carter…..

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Join DJ Spooky as he showcases his new app for iPhone and iPod touch, DJ Spooky The Secret Song. He’ll show you how you can mix and remix recordings using tracks from his new album, The Secret Song, as well as additional sound effects to make your mixes unique. The app is a must-have for dance music, hip-hop, and DJ Spooky fans.

Date: Thursday, December 10, 6:30 – 9:30 PM
Where: Apple Store in Soho, New York

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