Tabla Masterclass at UNCG - October 3, 2017
I'll be giving a 75 minute performance demonstration on October 3, 2017 at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro School of Music at 9:30am.
SADUBAS at CalArts - October 13 (with special guest Clinton Patterson)
SADUBAS (Ameet Mehta and Robin Sukhadia) with special guest Clinton Patterson (trumpet) perform a special 2 hour set poolside at CalArts to celebrate the inauguration of Ravi Rajan, the new President of CalArts. 5-7pm.
SADUBAS, aka The Sadhus of Bass invite you for an intimate evening of audio visual delight converging classical Indian rhythms with 70’s Bollywood vibes and modern day electronics to create psychedelic soundscapes that examines the current state of the Union. www.sadubas.com
Numi Foundation - Rajib Karmakar (sitar) and Robin Sukhadia (tabla) - October 21, 2017
Numi Foundation’s mission is to nurture and empower thriving communities. We envision a world where all basic human needs are met and people have the resources to fulfill their greatest potential.
Globally, Numi Foundation provides organic, fair trade farming communities with access to clean, safe drinking water. And in Oakland, California Numi Foundation offers experiential gardening, arts and social studies curricula to low-income K-8 public schools.
Rajib Karmakar and Robin Sukhadia present an evening of Ragas for the Foundation.
A senior disciple of Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan, Rajib Karmakar is undoubtedly one of the finest young sitar players today. Years of learning have resulted in an extensive technique and deep understanding of diverse musical styles. His open mind has led to an extension of his musical horizon to incorporate imaginative experiments in world music styles that delight the young and the old. He has performed all over the world, in prestigious music concerts and festivals. He is the creator of the world’s first double necked electric Sitar ” Mayur Tantri”. He earned his MFA in Indian Classical Music from the California Institute of the Arts, and currently resides in Los Angeles. More info at www.sitarrajib.com
Robin Sukhadia is a disciple of tabla maestro, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri. in 2011, he completed a Senior Research Fulbright Fellowship in India, where he developed 6 music education programs across India and Nepal, each serving children in some of the poorest regions and communities of south Asia. He has lectured and developed innovative music education programs centered on classical Indian music and south Asian culture at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Stanford University, The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, The GRAMMY Museum, and at Carnegie Hall. Robin currently serves as an Advancement Officer for The Colburn School, considered among the world's foremost institutions for music education. Robin holds an MFA in Indian Classical Music from the California Institute of the Arts. More info at www.tablapusher.com.
SADUBAS at Beta Level LA - August 25
SADUBAS, aka The Sadhus of Bass invite you for an intimate evening of audio visual delight converging classical Indian rhythms with 70's Bollywood vibes and modern day electronics to create psychedelic soundscapes that examines the current state of the Union. Kicking off the sessions is special guest artist and beat conductor extraordinaire, Roarkyd.
http://www.sadubas.com/
http://roarkyd.com/
Join the Resistance (sonically).
Betalevel
Friday August25, 2017
8pm-10pm
Free
BYOB
Relax and absorb
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Directions to BetaLevel
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•Find yourself in front of “FULL HOUSE RESTAURANT” located at 963 N. Hill Street in Chinatown.
•Locate the alley on the left hand side of Full House.
Walk about 20 feet down the alley (away from the street).
•Stop.
•Notice dumpster on your right hand side.
•Take a right and continue down the alley.
•Exercise caution so as not trip on the wobbly cement blocks underfoot.
•The entrance to Betalevel is located 10 yards down on left side,
behind a red door, down a black staircase.
SADUBAS at Harvestworks: Imagining Tellus #28 Heard in LA
[July 7-13] NYEAF: Imagining Tellus #28: Heard in LA
A speculative audiocassette: an archaeological artifact of the present. Not available through subscription or purchase, for educational use only.
Curated and produced by Tom Leeser
Envisaged back in 1981 as an audiocassette publication, The Tellus Project, produced and curated by Carol Parkinson, Joseph Nechvatal and Claudia Gould, is now considered a historic and significant archive of New York’s leading “downtown” experimental sound, noise, performance and spoken word artists. The tapes included works by Sonic Youth, Louise Lawler, Elliot Sharp, Glenn Branca, Tom Cora, Fred Frith, and Spaulding Gray among others. Assembled as a series of twenty-seven audiotapes, each tape was titled with a number and a theme that reflected their sequential release and the curator’s research and intention. The tapes were compiled and distributed to their subscribers, bimonthly through the mail.
Imagining Tellus # 28 references and pays homage to this important project as an imagined twenty-eighth tape titled: Heard in LA. As curator, Tom Leeser reaches beyond the tapes’ original geographical limits of New York to current artists working within the vibrant and active experimental soundscape of Los Angeles.
These new works will not be published as a cassette however, rather they will be exhibited at Harvestworks in New York and then archived and available for streaming online. The imagined Tellus #28 includes emerging and mid-career artists that are exploring new forms of digitally produced sound works extracted from interdisciplinary practices that fuse poetry, electronic composition, improvised music and performance into an assemblage of beautiful antagonisms. Heard in LA will inject the original collective spirit of the Tellus Project into an updated “downtown” and “uncommon” networked space for future reference. Thanks to the The Center for Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts
Friday July 7 Reception 7 pm
Open to the public: Weekdays noon – 5 pm
Saturday July 8th and Sunday July 9th by appointment
Harvestworks 596 Broadway #602, New York NY 10012 Phone: 212-431-1130
Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R to Prince, #6 to Bleecker
“IMAGINING TELLUS # 28: HEARD IN LA” ARTISTS
Neela Banerjee “How to Worship a River”
http://neelanjanabanerjee.com/bio/
Matt Barbier “An Excerpt from: A Lost Diary Relating to a Life of a Certain Person (T.I.)”
http://www.mattbarbier.com/bio.php
Scott Benzel “Recovered Works”
http://scottbenzel.net/biography/
K. Bradford “Dirge (on drought)”
http://www.onemileofchange.org/one-mile-productions/
Dan Bustillo “Dry Spell or there is something wrong with all that power”
http://www.daniellebustillo.com
Tyler Calkin “Interspecific Empathy Project: Hominid-Canid Vocalizations”
Scott Cazan “Invocation”
http://www.scottcazan.com/about
Provisional Collective “61856”
https://www.seti.org/air/tom-leeser
Louis Coy “La Llorana (Las Joyas Pequeñas)”
http://www.louiscoy.com/about/
E.E.L “Circuit Siren Song”
https://soundcloud.com/user-179727153
Carmina Escobar “Saa Niñi Ya´a”
(with (with the Banda Filarmonica Maqueos Music, the Maqueos Music School, and Yulissa Maqueos)
http://carminaescobar.com/about-english
Sarah Fylak “#Blessed2Know”
http://www.sarahfylak.com/welcome/#statement
Jacob Goldman “Onomatopoeic”
Ulrich Krieger “Power Play(1987)”
http://www.ulrich-krieger.de/bio.htm
Gregory Lenczycki “Silver or Lead”
https://gregorylenczycki.bandcamp.com/
Parches + Tim Tsang “(gfn) or, (excavating ruins from the future)”
facebook.com/ensocollective
facebook.com/timtsangtimtsang
Free Radicals “Conditional Circumstances”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/jen-hofer
Jason Richards “Strange Frame”
http://www.jasonrichards.website/bio/
Sara Roberts and the Readers Chorus “Black/White Oratorio: excerpts”
sadubas “What the Hell is Going On?”
(Robin Sukhadia and Ameet Mehta)
Christina Santa Cruz “River James”
http://www.christinasantacruz.com/
Stephanie Cheng Smith “Clanky rattle dream”
http://music.stephiescastle.com/about/
Thomas Sturm “Carly A.I.”
Jack Taylor “Music for Speakers (Excerpt)”
https://www.jacktaylor.info/about
Daniel Watkins “No More Pictures of Urban Lights”
Ebony Williams “The Vessel”
About the Curator
Tom Leeser is a media artist, educator, curator, and writer. He is Program Director of the Art and Technology Program and Director of the Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts.) Tom received his BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI.) His film, video, sound, online work, interactive installations, and public performances have been exhibited at Eyebeam, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Machine Project, the Mount Wilson Observatory, MassMoca, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Fowler Museum, Redcat Theater, The Kitchen, The Millennium, Siggraph, and film and video festivals worldwide, with support from Art Matters, Creative Time, and the Daniel Langlois Foundation. Recent projects include: DryRun, a public art and sound/poetry project for the City of Santa Clarita, History Refused to Die and The Futures Project at the Alabama Contemporary Center for the Arts and the Los Angeles Filmforum, Artist Resident for a Day at Machine Project, Radical Cosmologies at ISEA2012, Indirect Intention—A Home and Garden Intervention at the Museum of Jurassic Technology and the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Future Imaginary at the Ben Maltz Gallery of the Otis College of Art and Design, The Lament Project—An Evening at the Manual Archives, Underground Cinemamachine at Machine Project and Object Lessons for Gigantic Artspace in New York City. He is an editor and producer for the web-based journal and curatorial project viralnet.net.
Selected Works from “Future Tense” (Recent project by Tom Leeser)
Press Quotes
Make noise that leads to the subversion of beauty and tradition through a process of change. Leave room for the condition of inevitable spontaneity. Generate surprise. (Interview between Mark Trayle and Tom Leeser: www.viralnet.net)
Leeser extracts images and text from their original sources and integrates them into a “media archeology” that challenges their original meanings and context. M. Lovejoy,PostmodernCurrents(Ann Arbor, MI: Univ. of Michigan Research Press, 1989) p. 154.
Digital technologies have now formed the basis of our current century’s social network. We are now recording, archiving and dissolving at such a rate that latency and reflection can only happen within a real-time tyranny of a commodified present. In many ways we have created a zombie culture from the ashes of our past. http://viralnet.net/radicalcosmologies/interviews/klein_leeser.html
Social Media
www.centerforintegratedmedia.ort
Press Coverage
Yale Radio http://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/tom-leeser/
Post Reality Show with Randall Packer https://player.vimeo.com/video/47625838
ISEA 2012: A Conversation with Laurie Anderson and Tom Leeser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMy__rjTf1I
SADUBAS - The Resistance Sessions : Live at Artwallah EP
SADUBAS (Ameet Mehta and Robin Sukhadia) - live at Artwallah LA 2017. The Sounds of Resistance in the New World Order featured a tapestry of audio samples from Bollywood films, Arundhati Roy, Malala Yousafzai, Mr. Robot, and more. recorded by Peter Madana on May 6, 2017. More at www.sadubas.com