Samavesha presents
Musical Journeys
a live concert series of modern global music
Sunday, November 20, 2011 6pm
Mark Deutsch (Bazantar)
&
Laura Inserra (Hang and percussion)
Numi Tea Garden
2230 Livingston Street
Oakland, CA 94606
www.numiteagarden.com
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
20% discount on loose-leaf tea by the cup. Bagged tea by the cup
will be donation based. Snacks and light bites available.
Mark Deutsch can best be described as a 21st century Renaissance man. A professional musician since the age of twelve, he is a visionary artist with a background in non-linear mathematics, sacred systems and cosmology. As a classically trained bassist and sitar player he has gained extensive experience in orchestral ensembles, world music traditions, jazz combos, and solo sitar performance. Whilst studying sitar and North Indian classical music with the legendary Ustad Imrat Khan, Mark began delving deeper into the universal fundamentals of music and their underlying frequency structures. These studies culminated in 1999 with Mark being awarded the US patent for his ground breaking new instrument the Bazantar - a five-string acoustic bass fitted with an additional twenty-nine sympathetic strings and four drone strings. The result is a remarkable instrument that weaves a mesmerizing soundscape of resonance, and evokes all the power of Western classical music with the depth and nuance of Eastern traditions. The Bazantar possesses a melodic range of over five octaves, while its sympathetic range spans four octaves. This results in an interplay between melodic, sympathetic, and drone strings which weaves an unexpected landscape of resonance that is remarkably rich in texture. In creating the Bazantar, Mark had to explore the mathematics of sound, particularly music's underlying frequency structure. This search revealed nonlinear mathematical patterns that exist in sound and are found universally in the natural world, including the over-tone series, fractals, the golden mean, seashells, and the Fibonacci series. His intent was to create an instrument that would take advantage of these nonlinear mathematical patterns and make them more consciously audible. More info...
Laura Inserra is a vibrant and talented composer, multi-instrumentalist, percussionist and artistic director from Italy. She is a classically trained musician with a strong improvisational background, and plays contemporary and world music in different projects. In collaboration with acclaimed musicians from all over the world, Inserra has written and performed music for theater, dance performances, art exhibits, and film soundtracks. For over 15 years, she has been a performer and artistic director in multidisciplinary performances in Europe and in the US. Audiences worldwide are mesmerized by her musical virtuosity and captivated by the passion she brings to the stage.
www.laurainserra.com
Musical Journeys are curated by Laura Inserra
www.musicaljourneys.org
www.samavesha.org
