What's New: August 2010
& Selected Items
The Search For A New Instrument
Letter from Michael Robinson to John Chowning, computer music pioneer.
Michael Robinson, John Cage and Digital Music
Letter from Peter Jablonski, former Transfigured Night host, WKCR FM Columbia University, to Michael Robinson.
Twenty 2010 Releases (Beginning with most recent):
Kamasu
A janya raga derived from Harikambhoji mela.
For harpsichord, tabla, dholak and dhol, colored by latin percussion, clarinet and pipa.
The third Karnatic mela.
The Girl In The Photograph (Varunapriya)
Varunapriya is the twenty-fourth Karnatic mela.
The sixth Karnatic mela.
The fifty-second Karnatic mela.
The fifty-first Karnatic mela.
The first Karnatic mela.
The eleventh Karnatic mela.
The sixteenth Karnatic mela.
The sixty-third Karnatic mela.
The twenty-ninth Karnatic mela.
The fifty-ninth Karnatic mela.
The sixty-second Karnatic mela.
A Karnatic raga named for the song of the swan.
The fifty-third Karnatic mela.
A raga frequently used to end concerts because it's strong magnetism cannot be followed.
The revered first raga of Hindustani music named for Shiva's most awe-inspiring incarnation.
California Spring (Suryakanta)
Inspired by Nature and a Karnatic mela.
A legendary Hindustani morning raga found in surviving ragamalas.
Writing by Michael Robinson.
Saptaka Sea: Sailing In The Melakartas of Karnatica
Writing by Michael Robinson.
Sam Cooke: The Mystery of the Beatles Solved ... and Lester Young Leaps In Yet Again
Writing by Michael Robinson.
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Excerpts from Michael Robinson's Interviews with Indian Masters - Zakir Hussain interview - were included in a book about Indian classical music published by the Carnegie Hall Educational Program in 2009. |
Michael Robinson's In-depth Interviews With Indian Masters
Pandit Jasraj, two interviews with Shivkumar Sharma, and Zakir Hussain.
Also: Impressions of Ali Ahmad Hussain
Influences 101: Indian Classical Music
Article in CreativeSynth.com about Indian classical music, electronic music, and Michael Robinson.
Charukeshi In Lahaina: An Evening With George Harrison
New 2000 Series CDs Featuring Music Composed Between 1989 and 1994
Article in India West: Visual Music at Indian Film Festival
Luminous Realms (Marwa, Durga)
and Bhimpalasi discussed in jazzreview.com
Charukeshi discussed in All About Jazz
Michael Robinson featured in three articles: If My Life Were A Movie,
One
of A Kind and Globe
Trotters and Jet Setters published by
NewMusicBox
Charukeshi, Puriya Dhanashri, Bhimpalasi
and Gangadhara (Bhupali) discussed in NewMusicBox