NOEL CABANGON’S BYAHE CONCERT

NOEL CABANGON’S BYAHE CONCERT
AT THE PETA THEATER CENTER

Noel Cabangon’s ‘Byahe’, is still the number one selling album in Music One stores. It has outsold brand new albums by Susan Boyle, Taylor Swift, Owl City, Andrea Bocelli, Glee OST, Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys and John Mayer. With the album topping the charts, Noel Cabangon takes on another journey as he hits the concert scene.

This February 17, 2010, PETA together with Noel Cabangon, present ‘BYAHE”, Noel Cabangon’s concert at the PETA Theater Center.

Inspired by the chart-topping album, the concert takes a road trip down memory lane – featuring Noel’s rendition of OPM classics from the ‘70s and ‘80s ("Kahit Maputi Na Ang Buhok Ko," "Tuloy Pa Rin," "Di Na Natuto," "Binibini," and "Ipagpatawad Mo") plus original tracks and collaborations with Parokya ni Edgar’s Chito Miranda and Imago’s Aia de Leon.

The album also celebrates Filipino musical creativity to the fore, as it features some of the most influential figures in the Pinoy music scene - bringing together songwriters and composers from different genres and backgrounds.

The concert will also highlight Noel’s 20-year journey of being a performer, his untold number of years as a lover of music and beyond.

Noel has already toured most of the countries in central Europe and performed for Filipinos and Europeans in The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium.

The concert starts at 7:00 PM with tickets sold at P700 and P1,000 each.

For inquiries or ticket reservations contact the PETA Marketing and Public Relations Office at 7256244 / 4100821 or 0916-5805153 / 0917-8044428, petampro@yahoo.com.

VIOLINIST JOSEPH ESMILLA SLATES RECITAL JANUARY 29, 2010

VIOLINIST JOSEPH ESMILLA SLATES RECITAL JANUARY 29, 2010
By Pablo A. Tariman

There are many things violinist Joseph Esmilla wanted out of his chest as he figures out a New Year Philamlife recital on January 29, 2010 with pianist Rudolf Pelaez Golez.

He is on a long Manila visit which allowed him to accept an engagement with the PPO ( as soloist in a Sibelius concerto with Piero Gamba in March, 2010) and appear in a CCP 40th anniversary concert that by turns, divided and disconcerted, music lovers on both sides of the political and cultural factions.

“Classical music still needs greater financial and moral support,” he says. “Because in my honest opinion, the quality and standards of performance in the country’s music reflect the soul of a society. But I’d like to think that in order to assure the continued development of culture and the arts in our country, the support has to be devoid of political color.”

Now living in Quezon City after their Valenzuela (Bulacan) home has been subjected to flooding in the late 90s, Esmilla is no stranger to recurrent deluge in Metro Manila. “I empathize with flood victims because this was the reason we left our home in Valenzuela in 2000. Soon after I recorded Sentimyento in July of 2000, I got stranded there and had to secure all our valuables because the house was 50% under water. This time the house was 80% under water.”

He points out:” I really believe that what is happening in the classical music scene is a mirror of what goes on --in far greater scale -- with our government and society. If we really love our country, we have to wake up because the present conditions are not getting any better. I am always very grateful that we still have a decent house, drive around in a modest car and have San Miguel beer in between. What about those who have only have manual skills because of poor standards of public education? This is hard to accept after living in the US for many years. I think Filipinos should not suffer in their own country!”

Esmilla was one of the celebrated violin prodigies in the late 70s in a distinguished batch of classical artists that included Chino, Jaime and Coke Bolipata, pianist Rowena Arrieta and Licad, among others. Earlier honed by Oscar C. Yatco and Basilio Manalo, he was granted a scholarship at The Juilliard School at age 14 where he eventually received his Bachelors and Masters of Music degrees under the tutelage of Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki and Jens Ellerman.

For eight seasons he was a violinist with the Harrisburg Symphony and played concertmaster for the summer series.His recent engagements include conducting the Shippensburg University Orchestra, chamber music collaboration with the Eaken Piano Trio, performing the violin solos in the Harrisburg Opera production of Lehar's "Paganini", concerto soloist with the Cleveland State University Orchestra, Shippensburg Festival Orchestra, and recitals in Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC.

How does he sum up classical music in the Philippines after being part of the local concert scene for many years? He replies: “I am happy to see that we still have an active classical music scene. I’d like to give a lot of credit to local music leaders who manage to keep it alive. However as I get older, I gravitate towards viewing a bigger picture.”

The violinist goes on to cite that some 20 to 30 years ago (at least in the Southeast Asian region), Filipino musicians were classical music force to reckon with.

He continues: “In 1979, my father (Prof. Sergio Esmilla, Jr.) conducted the Philippine Youth Orchestra on a highly acclaimed tour of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. My Taiwanese classmates at Juilliard who attended the concert were impressed by this orchestra development program because then, they did not have one of similar caliber. The PYO gave its inaugural in performance in 1975. On that same year, the “El Sistema" which is a Venezuelan music education program that produced the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, was established. This Venezuelan youth orchestra has successfully toured Europe and USA under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, an alumnus of the program, who -- at barely 30 years old -- was recently appointed music director of Los Angeles Philharmonic. Sadly our very own PYO has been inactive since the early 90s. But now, things have changed even in our own region. Go on the internet and you will find big name artists from all over the world appearing regularly with world class orchestras based in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam are catching up fast. All of these Asian neighbors used to look up to our classical music performance standards. I would say that it is time for us to look beyond the borders of our country and not just rest on our past laurels.”

Esmilla has recorded a CD of encore pieces entitled Sentimyento released by Bookmark Audio label and Concierto para Trio for Northbranch Records as violinist of Triode, a piano trio. Due to be released is a recording of Brahms and Schumann piano quartets as guest artist with the Eaken Piano Trio. As an avid chamber musician, he was the violinist of Triode, a piano trio, with pianist Albert Tiu and cellist Sean Katsuyama.

He goes on to cite the challenges of chamber music compared to his roles as orchestra soloist.

“To me chamber music is the highest form of musical art. But to succeed in this art form requires finding musicians who are equal partners musically and technically which is a task easier said than done. But once you find them, concertizing becomes not only artistically rewarding but socially a blast!”

(The MCO Foundation presents Joseph Esmilla in a recital with pianist Rudolf Pelaez Golez on January 29,2010, 8 p.m. at the Philamlife Theater, UN Avenue, Ermita, Manila. His program includes Brahms’ Sonatensatz, Kreisler’s Caprice Viennois and Tambourin Chinois, Gershwin-Heifetz excerpts from Porgy and Bess, Sarazate’s Romanza Andaluza, and Polonaise Brillante by Wieniawski. Ticket prices: P1,000 (orchestra center), P800 (orchestra sides), P500 (loge).For early buyer discount and free ticket delivery, please call 3573811 or cell 09065104270.)


Photo Caption: Violinist Joseph Esmilla as he appears on his CD, Sentimyento.
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GUITAR CONCERT SERIES "09

FETE DELA WASAQUE

SABAW Media Art Kitchen presents FETE DELA WASAQUE - a 2-night festival for adventurous music and related visual art.


SCHEDULE:

OCT 14, (TUES) 9PM: Mag:net Cafe Katipunan, AGCOR Bldg. 335 Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City (150 php)

OCT 15, (WED) 8PM: Green Papaya art projects, 41 T.Gener St. cor. Kamuning Rd., Quezon City (Free)



Presenting two nights of handmade music that blur the lines between electro-acoustic, free improvisation, industrial, free jazz, performance art and freeform-noise, and will be paired with the intensity of live video performances (vjing), exquisite homemade machines, real guitars, absurd costumes, and even more live action on stage. FETE DE LA WASAQUE will be hosted by SABAW Media Art Kitchen in cooperation with Greenpapaya art projects and Mag:net Galleries.

Expect two nights of insanity going on and on till the break of dawn at Green Papaya art space and Mag:net cafe Katipunan - including one of the very extreme and rare performances from Australia's Justice Yeldham. Cavite's E.X.I.S.T. sound art collective will electrify our nerves thru their homemade electronics and circuit-bend gadgets, while Manila's New Media Arts Manila (N.M.A.M) will surely melt your brain with rapidfire audiovideo-shrapnel . Alongside the live video performances of N.M.A.M., performance and media artist Mannete Villariba and editor Edsel Abesamis will provide video assualt as well.

On the first night, Tengal's Gangan Series Project will manifest itself this time as the Gangan Trio featuring Tengal on no-input mixer, drums and objects, Blums Borres on guitar, Caliph8 on turntables, while Tad Ermitano takes off his vj hat and conducts the trio. Circuit-bender wiz Erick Calilan (Ugong) will challenge his old band mate from the now defunct Sound Existence, PJ Soliven (Nyangbinghi) , alongside the live script video programming of Mannette Villariba. Not to mention the avant-jazz/punk outfit, Radioactive Sago Project will perform improvised electro-acoustic "WASAK" music written and conducted by Francis de Veyra; while walls of industrial soundscapes of doom will break room walls with the heavy-hitters, Trojan Whores.

On the following night, Blums Borres will invite you to his all live, all improvised ambient solo guitar lounge. Tengal and Tad collaborate on an audio-visual "cooking show": Tengal stirs the complex and unstable nature of the sonic textures from the mixer, both live and processed - letting it boil and simmer; while Tad Ermitano who literaly "cooks up" non-newtonian fluid (i.e. ketchup, starch, suspensions, paint, blood and shampoo) into a "visual soup" using a loudspeaker, face-up, as a pot with cameras positioned on top of it. Elemento will drive some nerve-shattering noise with their intricately- crafted sonic machines, while analogue noise maker Inconnuictu will team up with ambient electronica ace Blend:er, and Ugong.
And finally Australia's leading audio artist and founder of the pioneering Australian record label Dual Plover, Lucas Abela (Justice Yeldham), will kill off whatever brain cells you have left on both nights!

SABAW ends the year with a wall shaking acoustic-meets- digital assault stirring acts on two nights of positive madness.



PERFORMERS:

Lucas Abela aka JUSTICE YELDHAM has been performing for well over 15 years and is one of the leaders of Australian "noise music". His early performances were crazed extensions of turntablism. Instead of turntables he’d use motors turning metal discs at 2000 rpm, and instead of record needles he’d use skewers or knives. He once used a glove that he had imbedded with record needles - Freddy Krueger style. Incorporating everything from electro-acoustic trampolines, amplified samurai swords to high powered turntables constructed from sewing machine motors into his performances, in recent years he’s been using sheets of glass that he blows through, screams through, bites and breaks. Lucas has toured over 30 countries with this new act, appeared on numerous television shows, and even crashed a John Peel session at the BBC.

BLEND:ER is an electronic music creator and a noise enthusiast who lives in Cavite, Philippines. He started experimenting with audio acrobatics and technoid sonic landscapes in 1999. Being included in various album anthologies like Mood Swing Theater Volume 1 (2004) released by Kittenwhip Compilation and S.A.B.A.W. Anthology of Noise, Electronic, and Experimental Music (2004), Blend:er aka (Cris Garcimo) has often collaborated with E.X.I.S.T., SABAW and Electronica Manila artists.

BLUMS BORRES guitarist and media artist who experiments with sound, video, and animation. Formerly a technical director at Toei Animation Philippines, he has a BA in Multimedia Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His work has been featured at the Australian Center Moving Images (ACMI), and in cinemas and television in Japan. His career in post production spans over 14 years and has involved himself in both professional productions and education. He currently teaches 3d animation at DLSU-CSB.

CALIPH8 is a beat smith, graffiti bomber and soothsayer. A lynch-pin of various groups and ensembles, he's probably the most sought after sound manipulator in the Philippines. A graduate of the U.P. College of Fine Arts, his output extends to more than just sniffing aerosol paint and flexing wrists with fat markers--he also creates visuals and projects them while manipulating audio and creates sound collage.He is a member of A.M.P.O.N. hiphop collective, electronica group Drip, and was part of Downearf, a trueschool hiphop trio back in 1997.

EDSEL ABESAMES is a video editor / motion graphics person / director / racketeer / guitarist / poser / anime fan / overweight 32 year old / discontent drunkard. That about sums it up.

ELEMENTO is the brainchild of experimental multi-media artist Lirio Salvador, and has created a number of experimental electronic instruments based on his own concept of ethno-industrial art/music. Probably the most influential and astonishing homemade circuit-benders and instrument builders in the country, he established the E.X.I.S.T. sound art collective back in 2002. He creates his assemblage of musical instruments using day to day materials that are found in his present environment, including bicycle gears, drain cleaning springs and stainless steel tubes.

INCONNU ICTU a.k.a Roger Llagas Lopez is a post-musician, experimental composer-improviser , multi-instrumentali st, visual art enthusiast who resides in the shoe capital of the Philippines. "Inconnu Ictu(s)" means an "unknown man's blow or a stroke", as a sound constructor he explores his interest by using obsolete electronic gadgets, pedal fx boxes, defective rhythm consoles, found objects, d.i.y microphones and circuit-bent electronics.

MANNET VILLARIBA is a performance artist, painter, sound artist, visual programmer and designer. He has been active in diverse fields of art and design - including research and development. Yielding the outputs of sounds, images, and light through analyzing and transforming the numerical values gained from various sensors and input devices, he is a visual artist pursuing sensual peculiarity and interaction.

NYANGBINGHI (PJ Soliven) and UGONG (Erick Calilan) used to perform together as a duo called Sound Existence back in 2005. They are active leaders and members of E.X.I.S.T., taking part in producing shows, worshops, exhibitions both in Cavite and Manila. While Nyangbinghi utilizes mainly a laptop as an instrument, UGONG performs using home-made "cracked" electronics that are circuit-bent and rewired to make electronic squeels, blips, hisses, and clicks.

RADIOACTIVE SAGO PROJECT is probably the country's most successful avant bands that crossed over to mainstream music, having released 3 successful albums and have been radio darlings ‘til this day. Instead of playing their usual popular hits, they will perform an experimental electro-acoustic piece by Francis de Veyra, the group's main composer. Francis studied atonal and modern composition in the conservatory of music in the University of the Philippines where he was almost sued and banned from the university for his infamous recital piece called "Wasakan".

"TACSIYAPO", is a new piece which will premiere on the 14th. The composer explains: "TACSIYAPO is an expression in kapampangan [a local dialect] meant and used to vent out anger and frustration. The piece was inspired by an interesting phenomena in a restaurant in Tarlac where they have people throw anything in a wall be it cups, plates, cats, or even TVs. Upon throwing them on the wall (that is painted with vandals of the words that are 'cancers' of our society), they shout 'Tacsiyapo!' . This piece tries to 'throw' an array of sounds and textures, wherein the performers will try to vent out their angst, not physically, but thru sound. The group will use electronic music, spoken word, bass and electric guitars, kaoss pads, percussions and the audience."

TAD ERMITANO is a media artist, writer and filmmaker. As far as the media art goes, he is interested in algorithmic/ procedural editing and composition, new uses for the moving image and have been lately drifting into elementary robotics. His work "Quartet" was exhibited in the recently concluded International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA) in Singapore.

TENGAL is a Manila-based interdisciplinary media artist, composer-musician, media art impresario, and filmmaker. He curates and organizes media art projects, has collaborated with various artists, and has performed in various shows in the Philippines and abroad. He attended the Berlinale Talent Campus 2006, in Berlin, Germany; the 5th Asia-Europe Foundation Art Camp: Re-Vision Bangkok New Media Art and Interactivity, in Thailand; and most recently at Cellsbutton II: Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival, in Indonesia. He founded SABAW in 2005.

TROJAN WHORES is composed of Pow Martinez, Sam Kiyoumarsi, and Thomas Mcwalter, and they create harsh industrial soundscapes with doom metal elements.

More info at: http://wasakfete. tk/ or email tengald@gmail.com.

ELECTROSTATIC SOUND CONFERENCE III

ELECTROSTATIC SOUND CONFERENCE III
September 24 (Wed) 9 p.m.
Club Dredd (2nd Flr Gweilos)
Eastwood Cyberpark, Libis, Quezon City
FREE ADMISSION!

New Media Arts Manila presents ELECTROSTATIC SOUND CONFERENCE III. The blackwinged furies of Sonic Art take to the air once again as Manila's sonic hatcheries crack out the incubators at Club Dredd on September 24. Australian Darren Moore of Iron Egg joins the flock with Edsel Abesamis, autoceremony, Teresa Barrozo, Blums Borres, Tad Ermitano, Inconnu Ictu, Mark Laccay and Manet Villariba for a night of anti hymns in praise of Hundun, the egg god of chaos.

Video art by Edsel Abesamis, Blums Borres, Tad Ermitano, and Manet Villariba.

In addition to the performances, Tad Ermitano will give a short presentation on Quartet, the robotic gamelan installation he created in August for the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA). Mark Laccay will also talk about the Jose Maceda Collection Digitization Project and his experience in Austrian Academy of Sciences where he acquired a certificate in Audio Tape Restoration and Digital Audio Archiving.

The artists have agreed to donate their talent fees to the fundraising effort for Tara Bosch-Santelices.

This event is sponsored by Intel, Sony Ericsson, and Globe



Darren Moore is an Australian musician based in Singapore. He is involved in various projects as a drummer and as an experimental laptop artist. He has performed and collaborated with musicians such as Jon Rose, Chris Abrahams, Johannes Bauer, Jeff Henderson, Scott Tinkler, Eugene Pao, Will Guthrie, Eric Boeren, Wilbert de Joode, Micheal Vatcher to name a few. Currently, He leads a jazz quintet and is a member of Iron Egg - an electro-acoustic visual experimental trio with Tim O'Dwyer and Brian O'Rielly.

Edsel Abesames is a Video editor / motion graphics person / director / racketeer / guitarist / poser / anime fan /overweight 32 year old / discontent drunkard. That about sums it up.

autoceremony a.k.a. Jing Garcia sound artist and award winning music producer. He established the Children of Cathode Ray backed in 1989, one of the early experimental and sound art groups in the country. Produced several music albums for different alternative music artists in the 90s. He is currently the tech editor for The Manila Times and Speed Magazine. He also hosts a tech segment on the late evening news on TV5

Teresa Barrozo is one of the emerging women composers of the country. She started her career as a student of the UP College of Music. Her compositions range from solo, chamber ensemble, orchestral, vocal & electroacoustic. Her works have been performed in the Philippines and in various Asian music festivals (Japan, Thailand). In 2007, she was one of the featured Filipino composers in the Asia-Pacific Weeks 2007 in Berlin, Germany. Teresa also works as a composer for theater & film; and as an arranger for various choirs and orchestras.

Blums Borres guitarist and media artist who experiments with sound, video, and animation. Formerly a technical director at Toei Animation Philippines, he has a BA in Multimedia Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His work has been featured at the Australian Center Moving Images (ACMI), and in cinemas and television in Japan. His career in post production spans over 14 years and has involved himself in both professional productions and education. He currently teaches 3d animation at DLSU-CSB.

Tad Ermitano.The artist was forced into the hell of art making as consequence of his enemies' envy of his enormous pencil and mastery of the black arts of nuclear canelloni. In revenge, he conquered the three continents of Fairyland by masquerading as five of their seven dead kings and obtained the Dread Dagger of Demosthenes by which he obtained dominion over the twin race of Electrons and Positrons that mortal scientists have confused with inanimate matter and probability waves. In his next work, the artist plans to have the two races meet in battle, guaranteeing an antimatter conflagration that should end the known Universe. Autographs given to women of adequate pulchritude.

Inconnu Ictu a.k.a Roger Llagas Lopez a post-musician,experimental composer,improviser,multi-instrumentalist,visual art enthusiast who reside in the shoe capital of the Philippines. Inconnu Ictu(s) means an unknown man's blow or a stroke, as a sound constructor he explores his interest by using obsolete electronic gadgets, pedal fx boxes, defective rhythm consoles, found objects, d.i.y mic and a circuit bent materials. Inconnu Ictu has participated and is affiliated with SABAW and EX.I.S.T (experimentation in sound art tradition) sound art collectives, and is a multi-media and explorative art enthusiast.

Mark Laccay is an award winning Audio Engineer who is the CEO of Sonic Logo Multimedia Inc. and a managing partner of Sweetspot Studios. He has worked as a Sound Designer for various films and is the main audio consultant for the "Dr. Jose Maceda Collection Digitization" Project. As an educator he taught audio classes at DLSU-CSB. He recently returned from the Austrian Academy of Sciences where he acquired a certificate of Audio Tape Restoration and Digital Audio Archiving.

Mannet Villariba is a performance artist, painter, sound artist, visual programmer and designer. He has been active in diverse fields of art and design - including research and development. Yielding the outputs of sounds, images, and light through analyzing and transforming the numerical values gained from various sensors and input devices, he is a Visual Artist pursuing sensual peculiarity and interaction. He is a graduate of Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Painting at the University of Santo Tomas.

GOSPEL MUSIC FESTIVAL

The St. Arnold Janssen Foundation (SAJF) is pleased to announce the start of the 4th Season of its GOSPEL MUSIC FESTIVAL.

The first round of competitions is on October 25, 2008 and will be held at Ratsky Tomas Morato in Quezon City.

The Festival is open to Music Ministry Bands and Choral Groups. Participating teams will be required to perform two renditions: a common competition piece and a piece of the team's own choosing (may be an original composition).

For this Project, we created a Yahoo Groups account where interested parties can access and even download information about the Festival. Below are the location and the email address.

http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/gospelmusi cfestival
gospelmusicfestival @yahoogroups.com

The Festival Mechanics, Entry Forms, media files of the Common Competition Piece/s and other important documentation will soon be available and downloadable from the Yahoo Groups account. Downloadable from the Files section is the Invitation.