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A STREAM OF LOVE Electrobass classical Hindustani



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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 ... "


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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ALBUM RELEASE SUMMER 2009!

A STREAM OF LOVE

Dr Floy (Paris, France) - Sumathi (Bangalore, India)

Bass, Electronics and Hindustani classical vocals

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” ... beyond genders, cultures and continents, love is a transe ... the musical vibration.

After a tour in Bangalore, Pune and Mumbai in 2005, the two artists are now presenting a musical performance with a serie of new pieces composed during the residence in India “Villa Medicis Hors les murs“ of DrFloy in 2009. The new show was premiered in Alliance francaise of Pondichery in February 2009. The CD album “A stream of love“ recorded in India , will be mixed in Berlin in May 2009 and released in September 2009.

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.

Featuring artists : Sarangi : Ustad Fayaz Khan. Flute : Vikram Singh. Veena: Suchitra Lata. Tablas: Amit Bhonse. Harmonium : S.R.Ramakrishna. Voice: Gail Hart. Djembé: Ashok Kumar.

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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aide auditive





Jul 3 2009 9:53 AM



Péo





May 17 2009 7:04 AM

un combat de gagné pour la transexualité en France aujourd'hui.
bises floy
Pauline
Rudraksha





May 3 2009 3:51 PM

hi Dr Floy , thanks for add, love your music
namaste
anti g. one





May 2 2009 10:50 AM

hey flowin' floy! ;)

from india?! nice! did you bring some new music? and maybe the answer for the question of the meaning of life? ;)
are u gonna pass tru berlin?

hugzzz
a.
mangadelobos





Apr 25 2009 4:08 PM

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TR35 B3LL3 MU51C!!!
drFloy





Apr 19 2009 11:47 AM

Junkerry





Apr 17 2009 8:24 PM

J'adore " go in search for sunrise ", un morceau de 9minutes 30, certain que c'est à contre courant de la manie du clic toutes les 20 secondes, j'adore comme le morceau est construit et grandit peu à peu, en prenant son temps. Que disent les textes ? Et y a t'il un ragga pour le lever du soleil?
peace,
Junkerry
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Apr 17 2009 3:03 PM

really great stuff! best wishes from berlin :-)
patty
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Jan 29 2009 2:34 PM

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ViBeJays & Friends





Jan 11 2009 2:09 AM

Dear "DrFloy-Sumathi"

Love can drive in a simple way... everything

Any kind of art...

Be the Love... in every moment

Have a great 2009 !!!

Vibejays & Friends
Sir Sabrina Red Vine





Sep 23 2008 10:21 PM

DR! SIr Here! Yes on India! I have a good guy friend that moved to Banglore as well if you need more contacts! YES LETS ROCK NEW YOR SOON! GOT LOTS OF EXCITING THINGS COMING UP HERE! LOVE LOVE! Send my love to them, and ask if they got all the photos I sent them, hope so! Xox Sabrina
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Aug 2 2008 6:27 PM

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Jun 20 2008 7:02 PM

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Tu vas bien, Floy ???
Vivement l'été et aussi, la fête de la musique demain...
Superbe week-end avec plein de douceur et de bonheur !!!
Des bisous, Sophie
Eric Garnier





Apr 8 2008 7:31 AM

Hi, thanks for the add, so nice energy here...

Peace,

Rico
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Apr 1 2008 12:42 AM

Hiyya asslema Floy.
une pensee de la tragiquement belle London. je vais bien merci et toi??? (c marrant trois semaines plus tard je vais bien merci)
t'auras une couche et une amie si tu viens a passer par ici.
Boubaye
Sir Sabrina Red Vine





Mar 14 2008 11:09 PM

Floy Darling! The world just got beautifully small! I just came back from shooting in Indian and Banglore, and am working on a magazine article with organization that Sumathi is in! We totally just kicked it in Banglore in September! And Ellie is right, you should come back, or maybe we should come there and trow a killer parisan party! xo Sabrina
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Mar 14 2008 7:06 AM

Come baaaaack Floy!!

Come on....come.


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Jan 11 2008 8:03 AM

Ravis de vous savoir sur ma liste d’amis, c’est un plaisir,
Très amicalement,
Rey
ulrike haage





Jan 6 2008 12:18 PM

Merci pour l'ajout. J'adore la musique indienne et les Indes de tout de facon!
Bienvenu dans mon WEISSES LAND.
ulrike
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Nov 28 2007 9:40 PM

Ca groove à mort par ici!
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Oct 28 2007 6:30 PM

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Sep 7 2007 1:55 PM

May loving light always be within and around you :o) Here is a poem I just wrote, entitled, Beloved, I Am ...


Beloved, I Am Yours
Wrap Your Wings Around Me
Unlock the Golden Doors

Share With Me Your Sweet Warmth
Of Paradise Within
And I Will Kiss the Light
That Glistens on Your Skin

Beloved, I Am Yours
Wrap Your Wings Around Me
Unlock the Golden Doors

Guide Me to the White Dove
Singing Her Song of Calm
And I Will Be the Streams
That Flow Between Your Palms

Beloved, I Am Yours
Wrap Your Wings Around Me
Unlock the Golden Doors

Hold Me Close, My Angel
Our Spirits Dance as One
Be the Love That Ripples
Into the Burning Sun

Beloved, I Am Yours . . .


-JV Delalunas, all rights reserved
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Aug 26 2007 11:45 AM

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Aug 20 2007 9:46 AM

Hola Floy. Merci pour me contacter. J'espere te revoir en scène bientôt. J'ai bien aimé ta performance la derniere fois, quand on a joué au elysées biarritz. On se tient au courant et à bientôt j'espere. René
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