Source Elements is collaborating with Het Nieuwe Instituut and the City of Amsterdam during this year’s Architecture Biennale on a special event called 'Tuning to Rhythm’.
The event is held in the context of a publication entitled ‘Values for Survival, Tuning to Rhythm: Cahier 3'. It is the parallel research programme of the Dutch Pavilion. The chief science officer of the City of Amsterdam was asked by Het Nieuwe Instituut to orchestrate this public research program.
Source Elements provides the online platform for this site-specific presentation. The concert, held on May 23, brings together for the first time three award-winning musicians from three different locations - Sirishkumar Manji, Mistah Isaac, and Reinier van Houdt.
On May 20, the online opening of the Dutch Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale organised by Het Nieuwe Instituut takes place between 12 and 6 on the website whoiswe.nl.
Rebekah Wilson, composer, music researcher, co-founder and CEO of Source Elements, has spent her career developing software tools and performance environments that create the conditions required for musicians to play together over the internet.
In collaboration with the Amsterdam chief science officer Prof. Dr.Caroline Nevejan as part of a multi-decade research project on how people can perform together successfully when separated by vast distances, the concert is designed to demonstrate the creative potential that arises when musicians embrace what hav previously been considered to be barriers to playing together remotely.
The featured musical guests are:
Sirishkumar Manji
The London-based tabla player Sirishkumar Manji has toured and worked with an incredible variety of musical talents, performers, and composers combining Indian classical influence with jazz, contemporary, classical, pop, and musical traditions from around the world. whether it is listening to the Underground train move out of a Victoria Station, or one traveling from Mumbai going to Delhi, the symphony of the universe is vast and infinite. That is how Manji sees the world when his fingers are playing through each taal on my tabla.
Mistah Isaac
Mistah Isaac fell in love with the sounds of Miles Davis, Miriam Makeba, and Bob Marley and by the age of 16, he chose the guitar to compose and share his feelings and stories. Since then, Mistah Isaac has become an international musician, traveling and sharing his music throughout the four corners of the globe. With his music, he mixes African rhythm with Western influences, creating a bond between different cultures.His most recent work is called “Third World Peace.
Reinier van Houdt
Award-winning Reinier van Houdt started working with tape recorders, radios, objects, and various string instruments at a young age. A classically trained pianist, he developed a fascination for matters that escape notation: sound, timing, space, physicality, memory, noise, environment—points beyond composition, interpretation, and improvisation. He plays in David Tibet's Current 93, where he worked with Nick Cave, John Zorn, Anohni, Jack Barnett. He is also one of the moving forces behind the experimental music collective MAZE. With his various and varied collaborations, he has performed at noted venues throughout the world.