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Zai Circle Musical Conversations for Peace
Dialogues of Here and Now
Musical Conversations for Peace exploring the cultural, generational, physical and metaphorical divide in multi-dimensional improvisations.
Series Ticket: All 4 Concerts
Dialogues of Here and Now
Musical Conversations for Peace exploring the cultural, generational, physical and metaphorical divide in multi-dimensional improvisations.
Each conversation in the Fall Concert Series, will be a combination of music, visual, and oratory mediums to convey the message of each given topic/ discussion. The format of each conversation will be a combination of improvised and written music structures. The main focus of Zai Circle is to be driven by the improvisational process just as in any spoken conversation. The dialogue between the performers and the audience needs to be open to changing directions and experience outcomes that were not planned.
It is my desire to present an audience with more than just musical entertainment and to open the mind to the possibilities of cultural awareness and collaboration, framed in a compelling, intriguing, and entertaining presentation-one which is heartfelt and full of surprises.
KeLan 8/09
Dialogue # 1: "Flowadic Lines of 3"
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Zai Circle Trio
ZCT has emerged out of the various conversations that have taken place in Zai Circle and engages the desire to explore a deeper and more involved "ongoing" conversation with a set group of players. Not a typical trio both in sound and space, ZCT lives in a blurred plane of improvised and written conversations-a blend of chamber music, jazz, and sound textures, ZCT explores color, texture and sound in the triadic form. Underscored by the equal lateral triangle of symmetry, balance, fluidity, space, precision, sharp angles, and balanced transitions, this deeply connected conversation seeks to promote peace through the resolutions, (or non resolutions), of the geometric forces created in the universal power of 3.
Featuring: KeLan: 5 and 6 string electric basses, acoustic and electric guitars, loops, and percussion. Sono Hashisaki: acoustic and electric violins. Terry Wergeland: accordion, trumpets, and piano.
Dialogue # 2: "Language of the Spirit" Convergence of 3 Centuries.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
The "mystical and spiritual space" we occupy-whether conscious of it or not- overlaps many different eras, cultural parallels, and dissimilarities. In this conversation we will explore these worlds through the poetry of Rumi (1207-1273), and Emily Dickenson (1830-1860), interpreted in a modern (2009), dialogue, through spoken word/voice, electric guitars, loops, and basses, turntables/beats and samples, EWI (electronic wind instrument), and percussion. We will cross these cultural generations of technology and sound and explore this conversation in three distinct languages: Russian, Tatarstan, and English, engaging the Avant Garde in our own unique modern voice of now.
Featuring. KeLan: 5 and 6 string electric basses, acoustic and electric guitars, loops. Masguda Shamsutdinova: voice. Greg Sinibladi: EWI. (electronic wind instrument). Steve Banks: snare drums and cymbals. DJ Gentle Gee: Turntables, loops, and beats.
Dialogue # 3: The Sound of Home Floating Flutes Over Intangible Walls
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
What does home sound like? How does something become home no matter where we are geographically-no matter how distant in setting-no matter how uncomfortable in surroundings. For me it is sound that calls up home. If music has been a part of our culture perhaps one can hear that sound of our homeland and be instantly transported home again-instantly at peace with our distance. However the sound of our home may not be familiar, pleasing or comfortable to those around us. In dialogue 3 we explore this peace and tension with traditional Chinese flutes, voice, saxophone, violin, bass, guitar, dance, and projected images with the idea that we are All visitors and tolerance is the key to understanding-the key to home.
Dialogue # 4: Ribbons of Individuality: Voices of clarity/Voices of obscurity
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Peace. Culture. Religion. Tradition. As individuals we all have diverse views, opinions, and insights to each of these topics. These differences can be subtle or vast. They can be the thing that binds two people together or that separates nations by war and conflict. Is one voice louder-more correct-more important-than another? How does one persons views effect and shape the others view. If we do not talk about our differences can we really understand our similarities? Does our own voice obscure what could be a profound understanding of what is around us-of what we are, as individuals? Dialogue 4 explores the question of clarity and obscurity with three drastically different spoken and sung voices, in contrast and in dialogue with a trio of rhythmic complexity including basses, ethnic drums, and cultural stringed instruments, all driven by the response to the words and thoughts from the audience.
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LocationThe Good Sheppard Chapel Performance Space
4649 Sunnyside Ave. North 4th floor
Seattle, WA 98103
United States
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