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A global mix of energizing dance tunes and spiritual trance music from Brazil and Morocco, performed in two live sets. Recorded during the Pioneer Works Second Sunday open house event on June 14th, 2015.
Forró, from northeastern Brazil, may surpass even samba as the country’s most popular dance genre, and accordionist <strong>Rob Curto</strong>, who has studied and performed in Brazil with Forró’s greatest names—Dominguinhos, Arlindo dos Oito Baixos, and Camarão—is widely regarded as Forro’s foremost ambassador in the US. His <strong>Pé de Serra All-Stars</strong> mixes raw energy with virtuosity. With Rob Curto–accordion; Adriano Santos–drums; Mike LaValle–bass, and Davi Vieira and Zé Mauricio–percussion.
<strong>InnoVe Gnawa</strong> is a Gnawa band comprised of Moroccan artists that explore ancient spiritual music of North Africa with an innovative, hypnotic twist. Led by Maalem Hassan BenJaafer.
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Live sets recorded at the February 2015 Second Sundays open house festivities at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.
<strong>M.A.K.U SoundSystem:</strong>
Comprised of 8 members, hailing mostly from Colombia, M.A.K.U. SoundSystem makes big music that begins in traditional Afro-Colombian rhythms and ends somewhere in the punk-jazz stratosphere, with hints of Colombian folklore, Psychedelic Rock and Caribbean grooves. Clarinet, trombone, sax, guitarra, and Latin percussion supplement an overdriven rock core, creating a sound familiar enough to be danceable but always surprising.
<strong>Tongues in Trees:</strong>
Drawing from North Indian classical and folk music, Tongues in Trees is vocalist Samita Sinha, drummer Sunny Jain (Red Baraat), and guitarist Grey McMurray (itsnotyouitsme). The trio blurs the line between East and West, traditional and experimental, acoustic and electronic. Long time collaborators Sinha and Jain bring their distinctive musical voices as Indian-Americans alongside McMurray’s avant new music textures. File as: Sonic Youth meets Bjork meets Sufi trance.
Olivier Conan curated this music series for Second Sundays at Pioneer Works.
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Live sets recorded at the February 2015 Second Sundays open house festivities at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.
<strong>M.A.K.U SoundSystem:</strong>
Comprised of 8 members, hailing mostly from Colombia, M.A.K.U. SoundSystem makes big music that begins in traditional Afro-Colombian rhythms and ends somewhere in the punk-jazz stratosphere, with hints of Colombian folklore, Psychedelic Rock and Caribbean grooves. Clarinet, trombone, sax, guitarra, and Latin percussion supplement an overdriven rock core, creating a sound familiar enough to be danceable but always surprising.
<strong>Tongues in Trees:</strong>
Drawing from North Indian classical and folk music, Tongues in Trees is vocalist Samita Sinha, drummer Sunny Jain (Red Baraat), and guitarist Grey McMurray (itsnotyouitsme). The trio blurs the line between East and West, traditional and experimental, acoustic and electronic. Long time collaborators Sinha and Jain bring their distinctive musical voices as Indian-Americans alongside McMurray’s avant new music textures. File as: Sonic Youth meets Bjork meets Sufi trance.
Olivier Conan curated this music series for Second Sundays at Pioneer Works.
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Transport yourself back to the sun-kissed, early autumn vibes of Pioneer Work’s October 2015 Second Sunday with these two live recordings of <strong>Zenen Zeferino y La Verdolaga en Playa</strong> and <strong>Kaleta & Zozo Afrobeat</strong>.
<strong>Zenen Zeferino</strong> is a jarana player and poet from Veracruz, Mexico who has been a pioneering force in Son Jarocho music for the last thirty years. Born in Jáltipan de Morelos, Veracruz, he was a founding member of the legendary group Chuchumbé in the 1990’s and later Quemayama. With this new formation, Zenen keeps pushing the boundaries of tradition, with roots in Afro-Mexican rhythms and an ear for related and un-related styles. He was accompanied by Esther Cruz Maranto, percussionist and dancer, and a selection of veteran New York-based Son Jarocho musicians.
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Transport yourself back to the sun-kissed, early autumn vibes of Pioneer Work’s October 2015 Second Sunday with these two live recordings of <strong>Zenen Zeferino y La Verdolaga en Playa</strong> and <strong>Kaleta & Zozo Afrobeat</strong>.
<strong>Zenen Zeferino</strong> is a jarana player and poet from Veracruz, Mexico who has been a pioneering force in Son Jarocho music for the last thirty years. Born in Jáltipan de Morelos, Veracruz, he was a founding member of the legendary group Chuchumbé in the 1990’s and later Quemayama. With this new formation, Zenen keeps pushing the boundaries of tradition, with roots in Afro-Mexican rhythms and an ear for related and un-related styles. He was accompanied by Esther Cruz Maranto, percussionist and dancer, and a selection of veteran New York-based Son Jarocho musicians.
Led by Benin-born singer, guitarist and producer <strong>Kaleta & Zozo Afrobeat</strong> is a 13-piece ensemble featuring musicians from around the world. "Zozo", taken from the Goun and Fon word for “something hot,” truly keeps the Afrobeat fires burning. The band is known for its remarkably energetic shows and its cascades of horns, hypnotic Benino-Nigerian rhythms, and captivating solos. They have performed Central Park Summerstage and Lincoln Center. Featuring Sade Emmanuel – vocals, Andrew Cowie – Bari Sax, Noah Dreiblatt – Tenor Sax, TBA – Trumper, Karl Markgraf – guitar, Zach Cohen – Guitar, Daniel Berg – Keys, Ran Livneh – Bass, Gabe Turow – Drums, Folachade Abiala – percussion.
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A thousand year old tradition of gongs and metallophones is paired with bluesy funk and hip-hop in these live recordings of <strong>Yowana Sari</strong> and <strong>Brooklyn Brass</strong> at the November 2015 Second Sundays concerts at Pioneer Works.
In Java and Bali, gamelan music is as popular today as it was a thousand years ago. It is the musical background to every social and cultural gathering, from religious rituals to mainstream radio broadcasts. At the core of gamelan culture is the belief that music is meant to evolve and adapt its repertoire. Yowana Sari does just that, performing traditional and not such traditional pieces on gongs, metallophones, drums and other instruments crafted by Pande Sukarta in Bali. Yowana Sari was founded by Michael Lipsey at Queens College and is open to community members to join.
This Brooklyn Brass band plays Dirty Funk, Classic Hip-Hop & other groove-based tunes. Breakdown are made up of young veterans of Brooklyn’s soul and funk scene — its members tour and record with Antibalas, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley, Lee Fields, Slavic Soul Party & many others. “The Horseman”, the group’s debut single, was recorded at Dunham Studios by Thomas Brenneck (Amy Winehouse, Sharon Jones, Budos Band, Jay-Z, etc.) and has received acclaim from NPR, BBC and many more.
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A thousand year old tradition of gongs and metallophones is paired with bluesy funk and hip-hop in these live recordings of <strong>Yowana Sari</strong> and <strong>Brooklyn Brass</strong> at the November 2015 Second Sundays concerts at Pioneer Works.
In Java and Bali, gamelan music is as popular today as it was a thousand years ago. It is the musical background to every social and cultural gathering, from religious rituals to mainstream radio broadcasts. At the core of gamelan culture is the belief that music is meant to evolve and adapt its repertoire. Yowana Sari does just that, performing traditional and not such traditional pieces on gongs, metallophones, drums and other instruments crafted by Pande Sukarta in Bali. Yowana Sari was founded by Michael Lipsey at Queens College and is open to community members to join.
This Brooklyn Brass band plays Dirty Funk, Classic Hip-Hop & other groove-based tunes. Breakdown are made up of young veterans of Brooklyn’s soul and funk scene — its members tour and record with Antibalas, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley, Lee Fields, Slavic Soul Party & many others. “The Horseman”, the group’s debut single, was recorded at Dunham Studios by Thomas Brenneck (Amy Winehouse, Sharon Jones, Budos Band, Jay-Z, etc.) and has received acclaim from NPR, BBC and many more.
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Get energized with live Latin melodies recorded during the Pioneer Works Second Sunday event on July 12th, 2015.
Led by Barranquilla native Carolina Oliveros, the drummers and singers of <strong>Bulla en el Barrio</strong> explore new and classic Bailes Cantados of the music genre Bullerengue, which originated on the Carribean Colombian coast of Colombia. The group, consisting mostly of drummers and female singers, has deep African roots and possesses a mesmerizing, trance-like quality.
<strong>Supermambo</strong> plays in tribute to Mambo King and timbalero extraordinaire, Tito Puente. Grammy-nominated Felipe Fournier leads the group. He is a percussionist and vibes player from Costa Rica who plays with Ruben Blades and classic salsa outfit Our Latin Thing, and has assembled a group of musicians who have collectively played with some of the greatest Latin musicians--Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colon, and the late Tito Puente himself.
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Get energized with live Latin melodies recorded during the Pioneer Works Second Sunday event on July 12th, 2015.
Led by Barranquilla native Carolina Oliveros, the drummers and singers of <strong>Bulla en el Barrio</strong> explore new and classic Bailes Cantados of the music genre Bullerengue, which originated on the Carribean Colombian coast of Colombia. The group, consisting mostly of drummers and female singers, has deep African roots and possesses a mesmerizing, trance-like quality.
<strong>Supermambo</strong> plays in tribute to Mambo King and timbalero extraordinaire, Tito Puente. Grammy-nominated Felipe Fournier leads the group. He is a percussionist and vibes player from Costa Rica who plays with Ruben Blades and classic salsa outfit Our Latin Thing, and has assembled a group of musicians who have collectively played with some of the greatest Latin musicians--Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colon, and the late Tito Puente himself.
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In this August 10, 2014 edition of Pioneer Works' Second Sundays, Clocktower recorded the event's two experimental pop-rock groups, <strong>Big Lazy</strong> and <strong>Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang</strong>.
Guitarist and composer Stephen Ulrich has been leading the trio <strong>Big Lazy</strong> for close to twenty years. At once stark and otherworldly, Big Lazy is a moody surf-like outfit full of tremolo guitars, slowed down tempos and exotica touches. Their cinematic music evokes noir, spaghetti western, Lynch and Tarantino soundtracks – but Big Lazy’s organic and uncontrived music remains beyond category. Ulrich’s many other musical projects include a number of collaborations with members of Balkan Beat Box as well as countless TV and film scores including the series Bored to Death.
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In this August 10, 2014 edition of Pioneer Works' Second Sundays, Clocktower recorded the event's two experimental pop-rock groups, <strong>Big Lazy</strong> and <strong>Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang</strong>.
Guitarist and composer Stephen Ulrich has been leading the trio <strong>Big Lazy</strong> for close to twenty years. At once stark and otherworldly, Big Lazy is a moody surf-like outfit full of tremolo guitars, slowed down tempos and exotica touches. Their cinematic music evokes noir, spaghetti western, Lynch and Tarantino soundtracks – but Big Lazy’s organic and uncontrived music remains beyond category. Ulrich’s many other musical projects include a number of collaborations with members of Balkan Beat Box as well as countless TV and film scores including the series Bored to Death.
<strong>Janka Nabay</strong> is the king of Bubu – Sierra Leone’s brand of electro-pop. Back in his hometown of Sierra Leone, Janka electrified traditional Bubu music by adding drum machines and synthesizers and giving it a frantic edge that made him a national hero. Now based in the US, Janka has hooked up with musicians from Brooklyn and DC (where he lives) who call themselves the Bubu Gang. Janka and his musicians share a similar fascination with the old and the new, mixing modern beats and analog keyboards with call and response vocals, improvisation and touches of 70’s psychedelia.
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Time is intangible but stubbornly persistent. We move forward, inevitably and relentlessly. We can't grab a moment in time. We can't point to it once it's gone. Is time real or an illusion? Will we ever defy the arrow of time, stop its flow or go backwards? Astrophysicist and writer <strong>Janna Levin</strong> invites physicist/philosopher <strong>David Albert</strong> in conversation with science writer <strong>James Gleick</strong> to consider the possibilities from time travel to time's arrow. Recorded November 2014 as part of the Pioneer Works Scientific Controversies public program series.
Featuring:
David Albert (Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia, author of <em>Quantum Mechanics and Experience</em> and <em>Time and Chance</em>)
James Gleick (author of <em>Chaos: Making a New Science</em> and <em>The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood</em>)
Janna Levin (Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard/Columbia, author of <em>How the Universe Got Its Spots</em> and <em>A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines</em>)
Additionally, Clocktower's own Jake Nussbaum interviews the group in our studios.
About The Series:
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Time is intangible but stubbornly persistent. We move forward, inevitably and relentlessly. We can't grab a moment in time. We can't point to it once it's gone. Is time real or an illusion? Will we ever defy the arrow of time, stop its flow or go backwards? Astrophysicist and writer <strong>Janna Levin</strong> invites physicist/philosopher <strong>David Albert</strong> in conversation with science writer <strong>James Gleick</strong> to consider the possibilities from time travel to time's arrow. Recorded November 2014 as part of the Pioneer Works Scientific Controversies public program series.
Featuring:
David Albert (Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia, author of <em>Quantum Mechanics and Experience</em> and <em>Time and Chance</em>)
James Gleick (author of <em>Chaos: Making a New Science</em> and <em>The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood</em>)
Janna Levin (Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard/Columbia, author of <em>How the Universe Got Its Spots</em> and <em>A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines</em>)
Additionally, Clocktower's own Jake Nussbaum interviews the group in our studios.
About The Series:
Major scientific discoveries can disrupt the traditional order, leaving scientists adrift in concepts that resist familiar intuitions and beliefs. Of the new ideas that emerge, some will be wrong and some will be right. Honest and open scientific controversy helps disentangle one from the other. Eventually, one side of a debate grows in strength and finds confirmation in experiments, while the other atrophies. But both sides of a controversy contribute to the breakthrough of actual discovery – when the utterly abstract barges into the realm of the concrete. This series celebrates that passionate spirit of scientific debate.
Theoretical cosmologist <strong>Sean Carroll</strong>, experimental particle physicist <strong>Melissa Franklin</strong>, and astrophysicist <strong>Janna Levin</strong> clarify one of the major scientific achievements of the last 50 years—the discovery of the Higgs particle at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva by the scientists at the <strong>CERN</strong> particle physics laboratory.
The physicist Leon Lederman had famously seen "The Goddamn Particle" as the apt title for the Higgs boson, citing "its villainous nature and the expense it is causing." However, the Higgs particle is now commonly referred to as "The God Particle," because of the answers it provides to long-standing scientific problems, and the crucial insights it gives into the nature of matter and the universe. The trio discuss the importance of the discovery of the Higgs boson, the new trajectories of research it opens up into string theory, dark matter, and black holes, and the future plans for the LHC.
Also featured is a pre-panel chat with Franklin and Carroll as they sit down with Pioneer Works' resident <strong>Mathew Putman</strong>, co-founder and CEO of Nantronics Imaging, at the Clocktower studio, and expand on the relationship between experimental and theoretical physicists.
Theoretical cosmologist <strong>Sean Carroll</strong>, experimental particle physicist <strong>Melissa Franklin</strong>, and astrophysicist <strong>Janna Levin</strong> clarify one of the major scientific achievements of the last 50 years—the discovery of the Higgs particle at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva by the scientists at the <strong>CERN</strong> particle physics laboratory.
The physicist Leon Lederman had famously seen "The Goddamn Particle" as the apt title for the Higgs boson, citing "its villainous nature and the expense it is causing." However, the Higgs particle is now commonly referred to as "The God Particle," because of the answers it provides to long-standing scientific problems, and the crucial insights it gives into the nature of matter and the universe. The trio discuss the importance of the discovery of the Higgs boson, the new trajectories of research it opens up into string theory, dark matter, and black holes, and the future plans for the LHC.
Also featured is a pre-panel chat with Franklin and Carroll as they sit down with Pioneer Works' resident <strong>Mathew Putman</strong>, co-founder and CEO of Nantronics Imaging, at the Clocktower studio, and expand on the relationship between experimental and theoretical physicists.
The panel was recorded on 29 April, 2015, as part of the Pioneer Works series <strong><a href="http://pioneerworks.org/events/sci-con/">Scientific Controversies</a></strong> hosted by Janna Levin.
<strong>Sean Carroll</strong> is a Research Professor of Physics at Caltech, specializing in dark energy and general relativity. He is the author of <em>The Particle at the Edge of the Universe</em> and <em>From Eternity to Here</em>. He has been a contributor to the physics blog <em>Cosmic Variance</em>, and has published in scientific journals and magazines such as <em>Nature, Seed, Sky & Telescope</em>, and <em>New Scientist</em>.
<strong>Melissa Franklin</strong> is a Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University. She works on studies of hadron collisions produced by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with the Collider Detector Facility (CDF) and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
<strong>Jana Levin</strong> is an astrophysicist and writer. She has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of spacetime. She is the author of the popular-science book <em>How the Universe Got Its Spots</em> and a novel, <em>A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines</em>, which won the PEN/Bingham prize. Levin was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2012.
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To explore is an irrepressible human urge. If there is a peak on Earth, someone will try to climb it. If there is an ocean to cross, someone will sail it. If there is a hunk of solid on the other side of that ocean, someone will try to stand there. Explorers do not always come back. With current technology, we are encouraged to fantasize about the exploration of peaks, and brittle ground, and ice sheets on other planets. No doubt NASA or private agencies like Space-X could rise to the technological challenge and send an astronaut to Mars, hang the cost. But could we bring her back? <strong>Janna Levin</strong> prods people to consider the brazen implications of a one-way ticket to Mars.
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To explore is an irrepressible human urge. If there is a peak on Earth, someone will try to climb it. If there is an ocean to cross, someone will sail it. If there is a hunk of solid on the other side of that ocean, someone will try to stand there. Explorers do not always come back. With current technology, we are encouraged to fantasize about the exploration of peaks, and brittle ground, and ice sheets on other planets. No doubt NASA or private agencies like Space-X could rise to the technological challenge and send an astronaut to Mars, hang the cost. But could we bring her back? <strong>Janna Levin</strong> prods people to consider the brazen implications of a one-way ticket to Mars.
Janna Levin is an astrophysicist and writer. She has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of spacetime. She is the author of the popular-science book <em>How the Universe Got Its Spots</em> and a novel, <em>A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines</em>. Additionally, Levin was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow. For this Scientific Controversies discussion, Levin is joined by <strong>Lawrence Krauss</strong>, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, and <strong>Mike Massimino</strong>, a NASA astronaut and Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University.
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Our universe may not be alone! We may live in a multiverse in which every possibility happens, and with each new possibility the universe branches off into another of many worlds. Or we may not. In conversation with astrophysicist and writer <strong>Janna Levin</strong>, MIT physicists <strong>Max Tegmark</strong> and Nobel Laureate <strong>Frank Wilczek</strong> discuss the multiverse, many worlds, and the elusive nature of reality.
Featuring:
Frank Wilczek (Nobel Laureate, Herman Feschback Professor of Physics at MIT, author of <em>The Lightness of Being</em>)
Max Tegmark (Professor Physics at MIT, author of <em>Our Mathematical Universe</em>)
Janna Levin (Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard/Columbia, author of <em>How the Universe Got Its Spots</em> and <em>A Madman dreams of Turing Machines</em>)
About The Series:
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Our universe may not be alone! We may live in a multiverse in which every possibility happens, and with each new possibility the universe branches off into another of many worlds. Or we may not. In conversation with astrophysicist and writer <strong>Janna Levin</strong>, MIT physicists <strong>Max Tegmark</strong> and Nobel Laureate <strong>Frank Wilczek</strong> discuss the multiverse, many worlds, and the elusive nature of reality.
Featuring:
Frank Wilczek (Nobel Laureate, Herman Feschback Professor of Physics at MIT, author of <em>The Lightness of Being</em>)
Max Tegmark (Professor Physics at MIT, author of <em>Our Mathematical Universe</em>)
Janna Levin (Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard/Columbia, author of <em>How the Universe Got Its Spots</em> and <em>A Madman dreams of Turing Machines</em>)
About The Series:
Major scientific discoveries can disrupt the traditional order, leaving scientists adrift in concepts that resist familiar intuitions and beliefs. Of the new ideas that emerge, some will be wrong and some will be right. Honest and open scientific controversy helps disentangle one from the other. Eventually, one side of a debate grows in strength and finds confirmation in experiments, while the other atrophies. But both sides of a controversy contribute to the breakthrough of actual discovery – when the utterly abstract barges into the realm of the concrete. This series celebrates that passionate spirit of scientific debate. For the Pioneer Works series <strong>Scientific Controversies</strong>, we take a look at profound topics at the frontier of physics that have inspired unresolved debates: Reality, Time, and Black Holes.
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Beauty--a prosaic artifice, a distraction from deeper raw truths, maybe even ugly truths--has faded in contemporary art. As the exceptional physicist <strong>Frank Wilczek</strong> (Nobel Prize, Physics) describes in his new book, <em>A Beautiful Question</em>, Beauty has proven a luminous ally, a faithful adviser in his discoveries of remarkable truths about the world. But actual experiments are messy and noisy, the elegance of the theory implied but never directly observed. <strong>Glennys Farrar</strong> (Professor of Physics, NYU) joins to discuss the subtle question: Is Reality Beautiful?
This live event was recorded June 18, 2015 at Pioneer Works.
About the Participants:
Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Laureate, Herman Feschback Professor of Physics at MIT, author of <em>The Lightness of Being</em> and <em>A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design</em>.
Glennys Farrar is a Professor of Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology at NYU with interests in dark matter detection and cosmic ray experiments
About the Series:
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Beauty--a prosaic artifice, a distraction from deeper raw truths, maybe even ugly truths--has faded in contemporary art. As the exceptional physicist <strong>Frank Wilczek</strong> (Nobel Prize, Physics) describes in his new book, <em>A Beautiful Question</em>, Beauty has proven a luminous ally, a faithful adviser in his discoveries of remarkable truths about the world. But actual experiments are messy and noisy, the elegance of the theory implied but never directly observed. <strong>Glennys Farrar</strong> (Professor of Physics, NYU) joins to discuss the subtle question: Is Reality Beautiful?
This live event was recorded June 18, 2015 at Pioneer Works.
About the Participants:
Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Laureate, Herman Feschback Professor of Physics at MIT, author of <em>The Lightness of Being</em> and <em>A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design</em>.
Glennys Farrar is a Professor of Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology at NYU with interests in dark matter detection and cosmic ray experiments
About the Series:
Major scientific discoveries can disrupt the traditional order, leaving scientists adrift in concepts that resist familiar intuitions and beliefs. Of the new ideas that emerge, some will be wrong and some will be right. Honest and open scientific controversy helps disentangle one from the other. Eventually, one side of a debate grows in strength and finds confirmation in experiments, while the other atrophies. But both sides of a controversy contribute to the breakthrough of actual discovery – when the utterly abstract barges into the realm of the concrete. This series celebrates that passionate spirit of scientific debate.
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We know enough about the world to manipulate electricity, operate phones, and send people to the moon. Modern science presumes the world can be understood, that technology based on that understanding will work, and that our ideas should be verified by experience and experiment. As neuroscientist Stuart Firestein argues, we will always be driven to know more, inspired by our collective ignorance. But we can wonder if there are fundamental limits to what we can know, if the mind is too complex to comprehend, and if there are facts about the world that have no explanation. Astrophysicist and writer <strong>Janna Levin</strong> discourses with <strong>Stuart Firestein</strong> and <strong>Tim Maudlin</strong> to consider the question: Can we explain the world?
This live event was recorded June 18, 2015 at Pioneer Works.
About the Participants:
Astrophysicist and writer Janna Levin organized the event.
Stuart Firestein, Neuroscientist, is a Professor of Biology at Columbia University and author of <em>Ignorance</em>.
Tim Maudlin, Professor of Philosophy, NYU, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and author of books including Philosophy of Physics, Volume 1: <em>Space and Time</em>, and <em>The Metaphysics Within Physics</em>.
About the Series:
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We know enough about the world to manipulate electricity, operate phones, and send people to the moon. Modern science presumes the world can be understood, that technology based on that understanding will work, and that our ideas should be verified by experience and experiment. As neuroscientist Stuart Firestein argues, we will always be driven to know more, inspired by our collective ignorance. But we can wonder if there are fundamental limits to what we can know, if the mind is too complex to comprehend, and if there are facts about the world that have no explanation. Astrophysicist and writer <strong>Janna Levin</strong> discourses with <strong>Stuart Firestein</strong> and <strong>Tim Maudlin</strong> to consider the question: Can we explain the world?
This live event was recorded June 18, 2015 at Pioneer Works.
About the Participants:
Astrophysicist and writer Janna Levin organized the event.
Stuart Firestein, Neuroscientist, is a Professor of Biology at Columbia University and author of <em>Ignorance</em>.
Tim Maudlin, Professor of Philosophy, NYU, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and author of books including Philosophy of Physics, Volume 1: <em>Space and Time</em>, and <em>The Metaphysics Within Physics</em>.
About the Series:
Major scientific discoveries can disrupt the traditional order, leaving scientists adrift in concepts that resist familiar intuitions and beliefs. Of the new ideas that emerge, some will be wrong and some will be right. Honest and open scientific controversy helps disentangle one from the other. Eventually, one side of a debate grows in strength and finds confirmation in experiments, while the other atrophies. But both sides of a controversy contribute to the breakthrough of actual discovery--when the utterly abstract barges into the realm of the concrete. This series celebrates that passionate spirit of scientific debate. For the Pioneer Works series <strong>Scientific Controversies</strong>, we take a look at profound topics at the frontier of physics that have inspired unresolved debates: Reality, Time, and Black Holes.
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In October 2015, Pioneer Works presented legendary saxophonist, composer, educator, and founding member of the <strong>Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians</strong> (AACM), <strong>Roscoe Mitchell</strong>, in a unique quintet with <strong>Scott Robinson</strong> (woodwinds), <strong>Thomas Buckner</strong> (baritone), <strong>Tani Tabbal</strong> (drums), and <strong>Gerald Cleaver</strong> (marimba and drums).
The concert is one of many special events marking the 50th anniversary of the AACM, a music collective that for the past 50 years that continues to be a standard-bearer of innovation, self-determination, and creativity’s power to transcend social and political barriers. At Pioneer Works, the group’s legacy has also served as a unique model in its approach to community based, creative education.
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In October 2015, Pioneer Works presented legendary saxophonist, composer, educator, and founding member of the <strong>Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians</strong> (AACM), <strong>Roscoe Mitchell</strong>, in a unique quintet with <strong>Scott Robinson</strong> (woodwinds), <strong>Thomas Buckner</strong> (baritone), <strong>Tani Tabbal</strong> (drums), and <strong>Gerald Cleaver</strong> (marimba and drums).
The concert is one of many special events marking the 50th anniversary of the AACM, a music collective that for the past 50 years that continues to be a standard-bearer of innovation, self-determination, and creativity’s power to transcend social and political barriers. At Pioneer Works, the group’s legacy has also served as a unique model in its approach to community based, creative education.
Mitchell, an uncanny improvisor and composer of granite conviction, and has been making music since the 60s that defies genre and consistently expands the potentials of the form. His work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago (a group comprised of several AACM members) was renowned for their use of costume, audience participation, and hundreds of on-stage instruments. His orchestral compositions and small improvisational groups rely heavily on the use of silence, and sounds not commonly heard in jazz and classical music. It is likely that Mitchell’s unique approach to music will continue to inspire generations as a model for creative practice.
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One of Mauritania's foremost musical emissaries and the descendent of a prominent line of Moorish griot, in a performance combining her ancient musical lineage with rock and psychedelia. Recorded live at Pioneer Works, February 2016.
Noura began her career at age 13 as a supporting vocalist with her step-mother, the legendary Dimi Mint Abba. Noura also mastered the ardine, a 9-string harp reserved only for women. Today she is backed by a rhythm section composed of Ousmane Touré (bass) and Matthew Tinari (drums). Her husband, guitarist Jeiche Ould Chighaly provides ngoni-inspired, distortion- fueled psych guitar lines. Her music has found a new audience in Europe and North America.
The quartet released its first full-length album for the international market via Glitterbeat Records and has performed at events like Festival-au-Desert (Mali), Hayy Festival (Egypt), Jeux de Francophonie (France), Globafest (US) and Festival Timitar (Morocco). Through collaborations with artists like Tinariwen, Bassekou Kouyaté, and Baaba Maal, the band is actively exposing Mauritanian roots music to the world.
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One of Mauritania's foremost musical emissaries and the descendent of a prominent line of Moorish griot, in a performance combining her ancient musical lineage with rock and psychedelia. Recorded live at Pioneer Works, February 2016.
Noura began her career at age 13 as a supporting vocalist with her step-mother, the legendary Dimi Mint Abba. Noura also mastered the ardine, a 9-string harp reserved only for women. Today she is backed by a rhythm section composed of Ousmane Touré (bass) and Matthew Tinari (drums). Her husband, guitarist Jeiche Ould Chighaly provides ngoni-inspired, distortion- fueled psych guitar lines. Her music has found a new audience in Europe and North America.
The quartet released its first full-length album for the international market via Glitterbeat Records and has performed at events like Festival-au-Desert (Mali), Hayy Festival (Egypt), Jeux de Francophonie (France), Globafest (US) and Festival Timitar (Morocco). Through collaborations with artists like Tinariwen, Bassekou Kouyaté, and Baaba Maal, the band is actively exposing Mauritanian roots music to the world.
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Over the years <strong>Matt Darriau</strong>, the composer and reed player for the <strong>Klezmatics</strong> and the <strong>Paradox Trio</strong>, has had an enormous influence on both the Balkan and Yiddish music revivals. His current and past projects have included tribute to Yusef Lateef (Yo Lateef); early Duke Ellington (Ballin’ The Jack); Celtic music (Celtic Eclectic) and many more. His new project is an homage to <strong>Manny Blanc</strong>, a wholly original – and nearly forgotten – musician who released an astonishing LP in 1961 called <em>Jewish Jazz</em>.
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Over the years <strong>Matt Darriau</strong>, the composer and reed player for the <strong>Klezmatics</strong> and the <strong>Paradox Trio</strong>, has had an enormous influence on both the Balkan and Yiddish music revivals. His current and past projects have included tribute to Yusef Lateef (Yo Lateef); early Duke Ellington (Ballin’ The Jack); Celtic music (Celtic Eclectic) and many more. His new project is an homage to <strong>Manny Blanc</strong>, a wholly original – and nearly forgotten – musician who released an astonishing LP in 1961 called <em>Jewish Jazz</em>.
Manny Blanc was born into a musical family – his dad played Klezmer but also owned a music store. Manny attended Juilliard and the Curtis Institute, became a serious classical composer all the while working as a drummer for Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and others. Little is known about his <em>Jewish Jazz</em> album, which was released on an independent label. The intricate arrangements are a far call from the usual Catskill fare – and were clearly influenced by some of the Exotica orchestras of the time. Manny Blanc also used an unorthodox panoply of instruments – two electric guitars, chromatic harmonica, bassoon, duck call. Manny Blanc could be the R.D. Burman or Esquivel of Jewish Music, but until now had inexplicably failed to get noticed. As an interesting footnote, after years working as a musician, Manny Blanc became a full time painter, studying with Charles Seide at the Brooklyn Museum Art School.
Matt Darriau’s homage, recorded live at Pioneer Works during the April 2016 Second Sunday celebration, brings the music back from oblivion. With <strong>Matt Darriau</strong> – reeds; <strong>Gary Schreiner</strong> – harmonica, accordion, piano; <strong>Brian Drye</strong> – trombone, <strong>Yoshie Fruchter</strong> and <strong>Avi Fox-Rosen</strong> – guitars; <Strong>Jonathan Singer</strong> – marimba/perc/toy piano,; <strong>Ari Folman Cohen</strong> – bass and <strong>Chris Stromquist</strong> – drums.
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A concert recording from Cumbia greats Los Wembler's. Originating in Iquitos, Peru in 1968, the band currently comprises five brothers--most of the original lineup save its founder, patriarch Salomon Sanchez--and has drawn a worldwide following with hits like Del Itaya a Italia and Sonido Amazonico. This performance is the second half of a legendary set, performed in 2015 during their first-ever visit to the United States, that draws from a forty-year repertoire rich with Amazonian roots and a global psychedelic soul. Considered the founders of <em>cumbia amazonica</em>, Los Wembler's are innovators in a trippy, danceable genre that mashes up psych-rock and indigenous folk to irresistible effect.
Recorded live in concert at Pioneer Works July 9, 2015.
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A concert recording from Cumbia greats Los Wembler's. Originating in Iquitos, Peru in 1968, the band currently comprises five brothers--most of the original lineup save its founder, patriarch Salomon Sanchez--and has drawn a worldwide following with hits like Del Itaya a Italia and Sonido Amazonico. This performance is the second half of a legendary set, performed in 2015 during their first-ever visit to the United States, that draws from a forty-year repertoire rich with Amazonian roots and a global psychedelic soul. Considered the founders of <em>cumbia amazonica</em>, Los Wembler's are innovators in a trippy, danceable genre that mashes up psych-rock and indigenous folk to irresistible effect.
Recorded live in concert at Pioneer Works July 9, 2015.
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A concert recording from the legendary band from Iquitos, Peru, recorded during their first-time tour of the United States in 2015 in a performance of trippy, danceable tunes that mash up psych-rock and indigenous folk to irresistible effect.
Begun in 1968 by a father and his five sons, these Amazonian Cumbia pioneers helped launch the <strong>Chicha</strong> explosion of the 1970’s. Los Wembler’s have only rarely left the Amazon and the <strong>Sanchez Brothers</strong> are still faithful to an authentic sound that, though local, has connected them to a global audience. In this set, they deliver an original psychedelic repertoire that spans forty years and includes some of their hits, including Sonidio Amazonico and Danza del Petrolero, featured on the <em>Roots of Chicha</em> compilations.
Recorded in two parts during Los Wembler's concert at Pioneer Works July 9, 2015.
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A concert recording from the legendary band from Iquitos, Peru, recorded during their first-time tour of the United States in 2015 in a performance of trippy, danceable tunes that mash up psych-rock and indigenous folk to irresistible effect.
Begun in 1968 by a father and his five sons, these Amazonian Cumbia pioneers helped launch the <strong>Chicha</strong> explosion of the 1970’s. Los Wembler’s have only rarely left the Amazon and the <strong>Sanchez Brothers</strong> are still faithful to an authentic sound that, though local, has connected them to a global audience. In this set, they deliver an original psychedelic repertoire that spans forty years and includes some of their hits, including Sonidio Amazonico and Danza del Petrolero, featured on the <em>Roots of Chicha</em> compilations.
Recorded in two parts during Los Wembler's concert at Pioneer Works July 9, 2015.
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Los Hacheros, like many of their heroes, hail from New York City and play music with roots in Cuba and Puerto Rico. The group plays Son Montuno, Charanga, Salsa and Bomba with a style that harks back to the early 70's when groups such as Grupo Folklorico y Experimental Nuevayorkino were exploring the deep connection between the city and its Cuban and Puerto Rican roots.
A band of only five musicians, Los Hacheros can sound like a <em>conjunto</em> of 12! Featuring Eddie Venegas – trombone, violin and chorus; Itai Kriss – flute, campana, guiro; Jimenez – lead vocals and congas; William Ash – baby bass; Jacob Plasse - <em>tres</em> (a guitar-like instrument originating from the Oriente Province in Cuba).
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Los Hacheros, like many of their heroes, hail from New York City and play music with roots in Cuba and Puerto Rico. The group plays Son Montuno, Charanga, Salsa and Bomba with a style that harks back to the early 70's when groups such as Grupo Folklorico y Experimental Nuevayorkino were exploring the deep connection between the city and its Cuban and Puerto Rican roots.
A band of only five musicians, Los Hacheros can sound like a <em>conjunto</em> of 12! Featuring Eddie Venegas – trombone, violin and chorus; Itai Kriss – flute, campana, guiro; Jimenez – lead vocals and congas; William Ash – baby bass; Jacob Plasse - <em>tres</em> (a guitar-like instrument originating from the Oriente Province in Cuba).
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Explore the aural intricacies of Ragam, Tanam, and Pallavi in two Carnatic kutcheris (concerts). During the <strong>Brooklyn Raga Massive</strong>'s 2016 residency at Pioneer Works, guitarist <strong>Prasanna</strong> presents a traditional instrumental set with <em>mridangist</em> (drummer of an Indian wooden double-headed drum of southern India) <strong>Akshay Anantapadmanabhan</strong>. The event took place and was recorded on March 29, 2016.
Prasanna is a pioneer in performing Carnatic (Indian classical music) on guitar as well as a composer for films.
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Explore the aural intricacies of Ragam, Tanam, and Pallavi in two Carnatic kutcheris (concerts). During the <strong>Brooklyn Raga Massive</strong>'s 2016 residency at Pioneer Works, guitarist <strong>Prasanna</strong> presents a traditional instrumental set with <em>mridangist</em> (drummer of an Indian wooden double-headed drum of southern India) <strong>Akshay Anantapadmanabhan</strong>. The event took place and was recorded on March 29, 2016.
Prasanna is a pioneer in performing Carnatic (Indian classical music) on guitar as well as a composer for films.
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Two vibrant live music sets from September’s Second Sundays open house festivities. <strong>75 Dollar Bill</strong> presents mesmerizing Mauritanian music while <strong>Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra</strong> brings energy with a big band vibe drawing from different schools of jazz.
<strong>75 Dollar Bill</strong>
Rick Brown and Che Chen play an idiosyncratic take on Mauritanian music, using homemade percussion and electric guitar. Their music doesn’t strive to any sort of authenticity, yet conjures up the best of African desert music. It is both beautiful and hypnotic and is equally relevant performed in concert form, in a bar, or in an art gallery.
<strong>Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra</strong>
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Two vibrant live music sets from September’s Second Sundays open house festivities. <strong>75 Dollar Bill</strong> presents mesmerizing Mauritanian music while <strong>Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra</strong> brings energy with a big band vibe drawing from different schools of jazz.
<strong>75 Dollar Bill</strong>
Rick Brown and Che Chen play an idiosyncratic take on Mauritanian music, using homemade percussion and electric guitar. Their music doesn’t strive to any sort of authenticity, yet conjures up the best of African desert music. It is both beautiful and hypnotic and is equally relevant performed in concert form, in a bar, or in an art gallery.
<strong>Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra</strong>
The Ghost Train Orchestra was founded in 2006 by composer/arranger Brian Carpenter when he was hired as the musical director for an event marking the 90th anniversary of the historic Regent Theater in Boston. Carpenter began transcribing old 78s of recordings by Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman, Tiny Parham, Fess Williams, and Charlie Johnson and arranged the music for a 9-piece ensemble. The Orchestra’s 2015 album, Hot Town featured saxophonist Colin Stetson with Brian Carpenter (trumpet, harmonica), Andy Laster (alto saxophone), Michael McGinnis (clarinet), Petr Cancura (clarinet, tenor saxophone), Curtis Hasselbring (trombone), Ron Caswell (tuba), Cyntia Sayer (banjo), Karen Waltuch (violin) and Rob Garcia (drums).
Recorded live on September 13, 2015.