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Griot at WOMEX 2011

Griot will screen at WOMEX: The World Music Expo on Thursday, October 27

Copenhagen
Denmark
26-29 October
www.womex.com

WOMEX has a three-year partnership with World Music Fair Copenhagen, an organization created by several key cultural players from Denmark to host WOMEX from 2009 to 2011: First and foremost Roskilde Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival and Wonderful Copenhagen. The other principal members comprise the Danish Center for Culture and Development (CKU/DCCD), Global Copenhagen and World Music Denmark in cooperation with Welcome Meeting Management.

Film Screenings selected by the International Music + Media Centre in Austria
Screening Schedule

“WOMEX is an annual highlight and a center of my curatorial process. It’s a great opportunity to discover new artists, connect with colleagues from all over the globe and from home, too.”
Bill Bragin (USA), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

“The most important international professional market of world music of every kind. This international fair brings together professionals from the worlds of folk, roots, ethnic and traditional music and also includes concerts, conferences and documentary films. It contributes to networking as an effective means of promoting music and culture of all kinds across frontiers.”
UNESCO Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity

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CultureHub Live Wire presents Mande Symphony

MANDE SYMPHONY
An interactive multimedia performance for voice, African harp (kora), string quartet, film and superDraw.

Musicians:

Volker Goetze – Composer, Producer

Ablaye Cissoko – Voice and African-harp

Carolin Pook – violin

Filip Pogady – violin

Andrea Hemmenway – viola

Brian Sanders – cello

Richie Barshay – drums

Jonathan Singer – marimba

Visualist:

Joshue Ott – superDraw

October 13 / 8PM

47 Great Jones Street/3rd Floor

New York/New York 10012

The MANDE SYMPHONY, an interactive multimedia performance for voice, African harp (kora), string quartet, film and superDraw, tells the legendary story of a Mande griot, Kimintang Cissoko, from the time he prayed that he could help alleviate the suffering of the Mande people; through his encounters with African spirits and genies that ultimately led him to create the very first kora – Africa’s lute-harp.

Mandinka is a tonal language, which is ideal for musical adaption. The tonal sound provides a base for a notated, rhythmic sound that provokes improvisational passages from the orchestra.

During the performance, sampled speech and music are sent to a computer where a computer artist modulates their effect on stunning visuals from West Africa – all in real- time. With superDraw, visualist Joshue Ott creates a carefully crafted dialectic between the aural and visual experience and the artistic intention is to evoke some sense of the powerful African spirit underlying the Kimintang story in a way that makes it accessible and powerful to a Western audience.

The event will be LIVE-STREAMED online.

Mande Symphony was commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts and is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Sponsorship was provided by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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SONIC TRUTH Robert Flaherty Film Seminar

GRIOT the documentary will be participating in SONIC TRUTH Robert Flaherty Film Seminar

SONIC TRUTH
June 18 – 24, 2011
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

The audio dimension of documentary operates in several ways: as an element to confirm the fidelity of visual evidence (synch sound), as the conveyor of narrative (the voice-over), as evidentiary recording (the interview), and as a creative tool to counterpoint images. Sound recording and design can help capture a cultural environment, sculpt a sense of place, or evoke a historical period. But add music to the mix and contradictions arise – either moments of truth are powerfully underscored or the truth claims of documentary fall into question.

“Sonic Truth” will bring together a diverse group of filmmakers working in nonfiction and hybrid media to examine the sound and musical elements of their work. Sounds to be heard include city symphonies and country silences, animated documentary musicals, electronica of the 1920s, roots music, telephonic voices, a Senegalese griot, window washing in Shanghai as well as excerpts from Flaherty Seminar discussion recordings dating back to 1958.

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CD Release Party & Concert LIVE at The Drom!

Wednesday, June 22nd, 9:30 pm, showtime 10 pm

Volker Goetze Orchestra
CD Release Party & Concert
with special guest Richie Barshay

LIVE AT THE DROM

85 Avenue A (beween 5th & 6th)
http://www.dromnyc.com/

Trumpets:



Sam Hoyt

Bruce Harris

Kenny Warren

Dan Blankenship



Trombones:



Alan Ferber

Joe Beaty

Rick Parker

Max Seigel



Woodwinds:



Aaron Iwrin

Kurt Bacher

Chris Torkewitz

Sam Taylor

Geoff Countryman



Rhythm Section and guests:



Sebastian Noelle

Alexis Cuadrado

Richie Bashay

Rohin Khemani

John Beaty

History can be perplexing for modern bandleaders. Breaking new ground while retaining traditional beauty isn’t exactly easy. But on NY 10027 Volker Goetze has come up with a win-win approach that does exactly that. The trumpeter-composer has lots of skills when it comes to balancing craft and experimentation, and they give his orchestra debut a sturdy feel that boasts plenty of personal perspective.

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European & US Tour: Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze

    UPCOMING

Nov 2, 2011 – Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze with Bodek Janke, Bix, Stuttgart, Germany
Nov 3, 2011 – Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze, Cologne, Germany TBA
Nov 4-6, 2011 – Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze, Toulouse and Banyuls, France

    PAST DATES

USA TOUR:

Oct 16, 2011 – Ashkenaz, Berkely, CA, USA
Oct 15, 2011 – Cafe Culture, Chico, CA, USA
Oct 14, 2011 – AWorld Festival of Sacred Music, Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz, Los Angeles, USA
Oct 13, 2011 – MANDE SYMPHONY, Culturehub, New York, NY, USA
Oct 10, 2011 – Beehive, Boston, MA, USA
Oct 1, 2011 – Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY, USA
June 22, 2011 – The Drom, New York, NY, USA 8:00 PM Tickets.
June 2011 – Benefit Concert for UNICEF and Tostan at UNIS (United Nation International School, New York)
June 3, 2011 – Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze, Via Vanti, Mount Kisco, NY, USA
June 1, 2011 – Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze, D.C. Jazz Festival Twins Jazz, Washington D.C., USA
May 31, 2011 – Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze, Beehive, Boston, MA, USA
May 30, 2011 – VOLKER GOETZE ORCHESTRA, Tea Lounge, Brooklyn, NY, USA
May 28, 2011 – Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze, Modern Formations, Pittsburgh
May 26, 2011 – Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze + SuperDraw, CultureHub, New York
Ablaye & Volker will be accompanied by the spontaneous electronic drawings of Joshue Ott and his visual instrument, superDraw. Using telepresence technology, the performance will be shared with a live audience at the Seoul Institute of the Arts in Korea.

EUROPEAN TOUR:

Feb 3, 2011 – Topos – 20:00 – Leverkusen, Germany
Feb 17, 2011 – Pause Musicale – Toulouse, France – 12:30
Feb 17, 2011 – House Concert – Pibrac, France – 16:30
Feb 18, 2011 – Gallery Durante – France
Feb 19, 2011 – La Meson – Marseille, France – 20:00
Feb 20, 2011 – Banyuls – France – 16:00
Feb 22, 2011 – Cafeteatret – Oslo, Norway – 19:30
Feb 25, 2011 – Jazzhouse – Copenhagen, Denmark – 20:00
Feb 26, 2011 – Seduced by Harps – Lomel, Belgium – 20:00
Mar 6, 2011 – Førde, Norway – 21:00
Mar 7, 2011 – Bergen, Norway- 20:30
Mar 10, 2011 – Im Ort – guest artist: Bodek Janke – Wuppertal, Germany – 20:00
Apr 30, 2011 – WDR 3 Creole-Nacht der Musikkulturen – Cologne, Germany – 18:05 – 24:00
May 4, 2011 – VOLKER GOETZE ORCHESTRA, Cologne, TBA, Germany – 20:00
July 2, 2011 – Jazz à Oloron, France
July 7, 2011 – Opera Festival Munich, Munich, Germany