Results for "Michael Robinson"

Lotus-Pollen

By Michael Robinson

Label: Azure Miles
Released: 2020
Track listing: Second Alap; Vilambit Gat; Madhya Gat; Drut Gat.

Michael Robinson

Born: March 11, 1956

Michael Robinson is a Los Angeles-based composer, programmer, pianist and musicologist. He voices and colors his compositions with instrumental timbres and scale tunings from diverse world music cultures including India, Africa, the Near East, Japan, China, Korea, Bali, Java, Cuba, Brazil, Australia, Europe, North America and Southeast Asia. He composes using traditional Western notation and programs a computer and electronic sound module to perform his music in real time without overdubbing.

"I'm interested in discovering and liberating the expressive quality - the essence - of computer- performed music. I want this music to emanate from the computer in the same way other sounds emanate in nature, like wind and water." (Michael Robinson quoted in Keyboard)

Michael Robinson: Where Composition, Programming & Raga Meet

by Mark Sullivan
January 4, 2020

Los Angeles-based composer Michael Robinson's work is full of contradictions. It is produced via computer programming, a system which he refers to as “Meruvina." The name comes from the sanskrit word for musical instrument, “vina" and the name of the mountain where the Hindu gods reside, “Mount Meru," and consists of software, a computer, and a ...

Tunis Phantom

By Michael Robinson

Label: Azure Miles
Released: 2019
Track listing: Tunis Phantom; Stars Blossom.

Dazzling Darkness

By Michael Robinson

Label: Azure Miles
Released: 2019
Track listing: Dazzling Darkness.

Spirit Lady

By Michael Robinson

Label: Azure Miles
Released: 2019
Track listing: Spirit Lady.

Darbari Kanada

By Michael Robinson

Label: Azure Miles Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: 1. Darbari Kanada

Charukeshi

By Michael Robinson

Label: Azure Miles
Released: 2002
Track listing: Charukeshi.

Michael Robinson: Charukeshi

by AAJ Staff
November 9, 2002

Charukeshi, a modern update to the ancient tradition of North Indian classical music, stands at the crossroads between new tools and traditional forms. Michael Robinson, who's been doing this kind of thing for some time now, takes a holistic approach to his projects. Using the piano and a variety of instruments from all over Asia (and ...