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Oori Shalev

Combines sensitive improvisation with digital machinery. Plays Indian, middle-Eastern and Western percussions. Works include, as composer: To Sing a Forest (2007, with Amelia Cuni, Seth Josel and Junko Wada). Installations: Baumberauschen (Berlin 2007), Sotavento (Mexico, Italy, Germany, 2006). Percussionist: with Anat Tuvia (2006 Morgenland Festival),4th Race (2007, Musicastrada Italy). Drummer: Tabula rasa, avant-free jazz trio, Israel 1998-02. Nigun Atik, Modern Jewish Quintet, Israel 2001-02. Russian Free Jazz Festival, with Michael Agre and Sergey Letov, Tel-Aviv 2002. Drummer in the free improvisation scene in Houston (Sep. 2003 "Shrill" , Dec. 2003 Sound Piece (dvd). Co-founder of The-Tilt group (Berlin, 2006-07) He develops hardware and software for real-time sonic interaction (handController, glovesController, tree movement sensors via the internet and various Max/MSP applications).

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can you hit it, does it resonate? it's my instrument. (also, some normal instruments: tabla/mid-eastern percussions/drum set/table percussions)

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------------------------------------------------------------------------ "... sotavento comprehends a global landscape, an hyper-garden, a space in short-circuit. It is an ecology of resources that establish new interdependencies..." - Philippe Zulaica - Digital Biotopie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "these strike me as employing technology in service of an idea, rather than using ideas to justify the deployment of technology." - Manifest Density ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "This is a beautiful interconnection of electronics hardware and software design, with art, music, nature (wind and trees), and chaos." ------------------------------------------------------------------------