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Tower Sounds: Ancient Voices and Electronics
Saturday, July 11 at 1:00pm: Persian Arts Society presents Tower
Sounds: Ancient Voices and Electronics.
Shahrokh Yadegari’s Tower Sounds, a groundbreaking multi-channel sound
piece and composition, interweaves traditional Jewish and Islamic
music, poetry, and song, combined with state of the art electronic
compositional structures and stunning live performances by the highly
acclaimed Persian vocalist Siamak Shajarian, and performers Kate St.
Pierre, Vocals; Keyavash Nourai, Violin; Dimitri Mahlis, Oud; and
Satnam Ramgotra, Tabla, Percussion.
Originally curated by Lawrence Rinder, now the director of the UC
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, for the Magnes Museum
where the piece originated as Through Music, a sound installation in
2007, Tower Sounds extends the work of Rinder's grandfather, Cantor
Reuben R. Rinder (1887-1966), The cantor of Congregation Emanu El in
San Francisco from 1915 to 1959.
Ann Hamilton’s Tower is an eight-story high tower with a double-helix
staircase, created over a 12 year span by Ann Hamilton with Jensen
Architects and completed in 2007. Audience members disperse along the
staircase and find seats within the open nooks of the tower walls. For
those ambitious enough to climb the 124 steps to the top, magnificent
views of Oliver Ranch and the Alexander Valley unfold below.
This is a unique opportunity to visit the Ann Hamilton Tower, which is
rarely open to the public, and to witness a one of kind performance
created especially for this space.
"Ann Hamilton’s Tower is a sacred space," says Shahrokh Yadegari,
"When you come to the Tower, you instantly realize that you have
walked into a sound world with amazing visual symmetries. You become
detached from the outside and begin to listen to the voices of your
inner being. The acoustics are truly unique and bring a special life
to any music that is played there."
The Oliver Ranch is in Geyserville, CA, approximately an hour and a
half north of San Francisco.
Oliver Ranch
22205 River Rd
Geyserville, CA 95441
Tickets are $130 per person. E-Tickets are available to purchase
online at: TowerSounds.org. For more information, contact event
coordinator Blair Nelson by phone (858) 605-6612 or e-mail
blair@persianarts.org.
NOTE: Attendees should arrive at the parking lot in Geserville no
later than 12:30PM on July 11. Comfortable shoes and clothing is
hightly recommended.
Sponsored by CRCA
URL: http://towersounds.org
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