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Genre: Classical / Electro / Experimental
Location Paris / Bangalore, FR
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Last Login: 11/11/2010
Member Since 1/12/2007
Website myspace.com/floyksumathi
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.............. ....................! ...... ...... ...... ......A STREAM OF LOVE .......... album 10 tracks cd Digipack 8 and digital distribution ..........order cd in US and Digital distribution .. ...... .... order cd in Europe at Toolboxrecords ....Dr Floy (Paris, France) - Sumathi (Bangalore, India).... .... Bass, Electronics and Hindustani classical vocals.... ...... A Stream of Love all tracks by Drfloy and Sumathi .. P©LesDisquesSolubles Paris 2009, recorded and produced in Bangalore India at DrfloyOmstudio and Music Mint Studio. mixed by Mark Bingham (the Great) and mastered by John Fischback at Piety Street Studio New Orleans. for contact and cdpreorder : solublerecords@gmail.com ........ ...... Electronics, bass, guitar, percussion Drfloy/ Hindustani classical Vocals Sumathi /Featuring artists: Tablas (3) Amit Bhonse/ Bansuri (3,5) Vikram Singh/Vocals (7) Gail Hart/Harmonium (7) S.R.Ramakhrishna/ Djembe, Darbuka (1,8,10) Ashok Kumar/Sarangi (10) Fayaz Khan/Veena (9) Suchitra Latta/Spoken words (4) Kajol/ (1,8,10) Sneha Prabha / (8) Nilanjana / Translations from Hindi, Tamil and Kannada by Sumathi/ .. Around texts and poems of Indian contemporary authors, activists and members of the Hijra community or visiting the Indian tradition of sufi poetry, DrFloy (bass player and electroacoustic composer), and Sumathi (hindustani classical vocals, composer) have developed a musical conversation for the last five years, sharing and experimenting around their musical practices: ragas, electronic compositions, instrument, voice and soundscapes... “A Stream of Love” ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ........ .. ........ ....THE ARTISTS...... .. Floy Krouchi aka DrFloy, a french sound artist, bass guitar player and electronic composer and performer, involved in the electronic and experimental music scene and in the female collective Mafucage, has been performing since 1994 in France, UK, US, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Tchequia, Russia, China and India. She produces and releases sound art and pieces for diverse supports in various art forms such as CDs, vinyl EPS, Internet web art, videos, installations of her own projects, and collaborates with various artists, collectives and groups in Europe and India. Founder of the organization “Le Cri du Silence“, (The Cry of Silence), women arts and technologies, dedicated to producing, training and promoting female musicians in the field of electronics. She studied electroacoustic composition in the conservatory in Paris in the class of Gino Favotti, as well as Jazz Improvisation with David Patrois. She is also initiated to Indian ragas with Pandit Hindraj Divekar, one rudra veena master living in Pune. ...... .... Sumathi, as student of Hindustani classical vocal music, has been learning music for 20 years under late Pandit Ramarao Naik, Pandit D.S. Garud, Pandit Yaeshwant Buva Joshi, and Smt Lalit Rao. She started performing Hindustani classical vocal at the age of 12, and has performed in prestigious festivals, like Savai Gandarwa festival at Hubli, Flights of Fantasy Ganjam Nagappa festival at Bangalore, Devanandam Ubhayakar youth festival… She is now mostly involved in experimental programs. She is also a music composer working for documentary films and theatre. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .... .... ..SAKHIRI , A MULTIMEDIA CREATION, 2005.... .. In 2005 DR FLOY and SUMATHI worked on SAKHIRI, an electro-acoustic multimedia performance crossing genders.A musical creation built out of a poetic research exploring gender issues, human rights andsexual minorities’ rights, making space for our multiple voices; exploring pain, joy, love and celebrating our lives through multimedia artistic expression.5 shows of “Sakhi Ri” were presented at the Alliances françaises of Bangalore, Pune, and Bombay, India, in March-April 2005. The performance toured along with the involved artists and participants to the workshops......... An interaction between electric, electronic, and traditional music...Electronic treatments, beats, experimental soundscapes , Hindustani classical alaaps and ragas, sculpting themes and emotions, and building ,around an intimate fluid relation between sound compositions and video art, intricate narratives dealing with the particularity of the hijra context, dissonance and gender de/construction as well as universal emotions. The show includes a live performance of audio and video pieces......... After collecting material through various meetings and workshops with members of the Hijra community (traditional transexual community of India) and gender variants individuals for the time of a residency in Bangalore, the artists present different music compositions where live electronics treat and transfigure the collected sources, testimonies and poems, while poetry is performed and sung, interacting with video......... ...... ...... ......How can experimental soundscapes, treatments and classical vocals deal together?........ ......How can music, poetry, and video reveal, attract or repel each other?........ ......What kind of meaning or sensations appear through?.......... ......How is gender constructed by artists, art, music, electronics, visuals, poetry, images, by people,.......... ......by mainstream people?.......... ......What about people who transgress the borders?.......... ......Has Creation to do with creating one’s own life, one’s own gender?.......... ......What creative potential lies in being “in the margins”?.......... ........ ........ .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
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...... .. ...... .. ...... .. ...... .. .. ...... ...... ..Sakhiri Tour in India, Bangalore Puna, Bombay.Sakhiri a multimedia performance exploring the de/construction of gender with members of the Hijra ( traditional transexual and transgender) community in Bangalore, South India, featuring "the family" : Anand, Kajol, Revathi, Sanjana, Sneha, Sowmya, Sonu and Sunil- Drfloy and Sumathi in collaboration with Tejal Shah and Natasha Mendonca ... "...... .. .. .. .. .. .. ........Add to My Profile.. | .. .. .. ..The White Rose...Electronic and video poem...a text from Revathi, Hijra writer and activist...a creation from the Sakhiri workshop. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... .. .. .. ..
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A STREAM OF LOVE

album 10 tracks cd Digipack 8 and digital distribution

order cd in US and Digital distribution

order cd in Europe at Toolboxrecords
Dr Floy (Paris, France) - Sumathi (Bangalore, India)

Bass, Electronics and Hindustani classical vocals

A Stream of Love all tracks by Drfloy and Sumathi
P©LesDisquesSolubles Paris 2009, recorded and produced in Bangalore India at DrfloyOmstudio and Music Mint Studio. mixed by Mark Bingham (the Great) and mastered by John Fischback at Piety Street Studio New Orleans. for contact and cdpreorder : solublerecords@gmail.com

Electronics, bass, guitar, percussion Drfloy/ Hindustani classical Vocals Sumathi /Featuring artists: Tablas (3) Amit Bhonse/ Bansuri (3,5) Vikram Singh/Vocals (7) Gail Hart/Harmonium (7) S.R.Ramakhrishna/ Djembe, Darbuka (1,8,10) Ashok Kumar/Sarangi (10) Fayaz Khan/Veena (9) Suchitra Latta/Spoken words (4) Kajol/ (1,8,10) Sneha Prabha / (8) Nilanjana / Translations from Hindi, Tamil and Kannada by Sumathi/

Around texts and poems of Indian contemporary authors, activists and members of the Hijra community or visiting the Indian tradition of sufi poetry, DrFloy (bass player and electroacoustic composer), and Sumathi (hindustani classical vocals, composer) have developed a musical conversation for the last five years, sharing and experimenting around their musical practices: ragas, electronic compositions, instrument, voice and soundscapes... “A Stream of Love” ...

THE ARTISTS....

Floy Krouchi aka DrFloy, a french sound artist, bass guitar player and electronic composer and performer, involved in the electronic and experimental music scene and in the female collective Mafucage, has been performing since 1994 in France, UK, US, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Tchequia, Russia, China and India. She produces and releases sound art and pieces for diverse supports in various art forms such as CDs, vinyl EPS, Internet web art, videos, installations of her own projects, and collaborates with various artists, collectives and groups in Europe and India. Founder of the organization “Le Cri du Silence“, (The Cry of Silence), women arts and technologies, dedicated to producing, training and promoting female musicians in the field of electronics. She studied electroacoustic composition in the conservatory in Paris in the class of Gino Favotti, as well as Jazz Improvisation with David Patrois. She is also initiated to Indian ragas with Pandit Hindraj Divekar, one rudra veena master living in Pune.

Sumathi, as student of Hindustani classical vocal music, has been learning music for 20 years under late Pandit Ramarao Naik, Pandit D.S. Garud, Pandit Yaeshwant Buva Joshi, and Smt Lalit Rao. She started performing Hindustani classical vocal at the age of 12, and has performed in prestigious festivals, like Savai Gandarwa festival at Hubli, Flights of Fantasy Ganjam Nagappa festival at Bangalore, Devanandam Ubhayakar youth festival… She is now mostly involved in experimental programs. She is also a music composer working for documentary films and theatre.

.. .... .... SAKHIRI , A MULTIMEDIA CREATION, 2005..

In 2005 DR FLOY and SUMATHI worked on SAKHIRI, an electro-acoustic multimedia performance crossing genders.A musical creation built out of a poetic research exploring gender issues, human rights andsexual minorities’ rights, making space for our multiple voices; exploring pain, joy, love and celebrating our lives through multimedia artistic expression.5 shows of “Sakhi Ri” were presented at the Alliances françaises of Bangalore, Pune, and Bombay, India, in March-April 2005. The performance toured along with the involved artists and participants to the workshops.......

An interaction between electric, electronic, and traditional music...Electronic treatments, beats, experimental soundscapes , Hindustani classical alaaps and ragas, sculpting themes and emotions, and building ,around an intimate fluid relation between sound compositions and video art, intricate narratives dealing with the particularity of the hijra context, dissonance and gender de/construction as well as universal emotions. The show includes a live performance of audio and video pieces......... After collecting material through various meetings and workshops with members of the Hijra community (traditional transexual community of India) and gender variants individuals for the time of a residency in Bangalore, the artists present different music compositions where live electronics treat and transfigure the collected sources, testimonies and poems, while poetry is performed and sung, interacting with video.........

.. ..

How can experimental soundscapes, treatments and classical vocals deal together?..

How can music, poetry, and video reveal, attract or repel each other?..

What kind of meaning or sensations appear through?....

How is gender constructed by artists, art, music, electronics, visuals, poetry, images, by people,....

by mainstream people?....

What about people who transgress the borders?....

Has Creation to do with creating one’s own life, one’s own gender?....

What creative potential lies in being “in the margins”?....

.. ..