Yumi's Japanese website: http://yumihara.exblog.jp/i10/
Yumi Hara Cawkwell is composer, performer and DJ
HUMI (Hugh Hopper & Yumi Hara Cawkwell) debut CD 'Dune' OUT NOW from MOONJUNE
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http://www.moonjune.com/MJR019.htm
Sounds Like
'Wrapped Box 25/4 Lid (with Ribbons)' based on 'Box 25/4 Lid' from The Soft Machine (1st) by Mike Ratledge & Hugh Hopper.
I wrote this for Delta Saxophone Quartet's expanding repertoire of pieces by and inspired by Soft Machine, and it is 5 times as long as the original.
The video is the second half of the piece, shot during the first performance at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge on 8h Feb 2008, also includes some footage from the rehearsal and during the sound check.
Delta Saxophone Quartet:
Graeme Blevins (Soprano)
Pete Whyman (Alto)
Tim Holmes (Tenor)
Chris Caldwell (Baritone)
with
Simon Pearson (Drums)
Hugh Hopper (Bass)
Yumi Hara Cawkwell (Piano)
'Improv: Flawless and Purple Fluff', improvisation live at Songs, Isesaki, Japan, 8 September 2007. Yumi Hara Cawkwell (keyboard), MEW (drums), Ejiri (bass) and Teruhiro Shiojima (guitar). We had never performed together and no rehearsal took place prior to this performance, but all of us were pretty much informed by 72-74 KC improvisation...
Live at the Spitz, London, 16 March 2007. 'Scenes from Japanese Summer', semi-improvised vocal performance based on Japanese lullabies. The 'backing track' is pre-recorded found sound I collected during my trip in Japan: cicadas, street noise, temple bells and wind chimes...
Live at the Union Chapel, London, 13 March 2007. 'I Talk to the Wind', semi-improvised performance based on King Crimson's track from 'In the Court of the Crimson King', written by Ian McDonald & Peter Sinfield. I accompanied myself on the organ.
Live at UCSD, California, 4 April 2007. a conceptual piece 'Pears' by Carolyn Chen, performed by Reiko Manabe (flutes) and Yumi Hara Cawkwell (voice).
Yumi Hara Cawkwell studied medicine in Japan and practised as a psychiatrist for eight years before moving to the UK in 1993. In 1999, she graduated in music from City University in London with a first-class honours degree, and has completed her PhD in composition at City University under Rhian Samuel in 2005.
She has received a number of awards including a prize in the Continuum Ensemble Improvisation Competition, Sculpted Sound competition and the British Medical Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology Fanfare Competition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA. She has been nominated as a finalist for the British Composer Awards 2006 in solo and duo category.
Her music has been performed by, among others, PianoCircus, Ensemble Bash, OKEANOS, Jane Chapman, Kate Ryder, Michael Bonaventure and Trio Japan in concerts and festivals in the UK and Japan. She has led voice improvisation workshops for the Yokohama Boys and Girls Chorus at the ISCM World Music Days in 2001.
She regularly gives improvised performances as a solo vocalist (with electronics), is active as a DJ, and since 1996, has been a member of the performance-art girlband Frank Chickens. She also performs with Lemon Squeezer and Vaseline Towers. She is Lecturer in Music at University of East London.
Please visit DJ ANAKONDA MySpace at www.myspace.com/djanakonda for Yumi's dance tracks.
Yumi also enjoys taking pictures and videos. Please see Yumi MySpace at www.myspace.com/yumimyspace for pictures.
Please click on Steve Howe Trio and Steve Howe in My Friends section: the main picture of Steve Howe Trio is taken by Yumi as well as all live pictures and videos. The first picture in the slide show in Steve Howe MySpace is also hers. They appear in www.stevehowe.com too.
Also there are three live shots by Yumi at Chris Braide's (The Producers) MySpace.
Current projects as performer:
HUMI (Hugh Hopper: bass, live electronics, loops, Yumi Hara Cawkwell: voice, keys)
Please visit HUMI MySpace at www.myspace.com/humimyspace
David Cross & Yumi Hara Cawkwell (David Cross: electric violin, Yumi Hara Cawkwell: voice, keys and found sound)
Please visit David Cross & Yumi Hara Cawkwell MySpace at www.myspace.com/crosscawkwell
Yumi Hara Cawkwell & Michael Bonaventure (Yumi Hara Cawkwell: voice and found sound, Michael Bonaventure: organ)
Current projects as composer:
New piece for clarinet and piano for Carol Minor, to be premiered at the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra’s Musicbridge series (Glens Falls, state of New York) in october 2008
New pieces and arrangements for organ (Michael Bonaventure), electric & acoustic guitar and choir
'Cosmos Massive No. 901' solo piano piece inspired by Bartok for David Appleton
Just a quick hello - there are 5 new tracks up on myspace, + link (in my blog) to a review of the Schiphorst Festival. Nice to see you have some gigs in Japan in november (boohoo!)..Geoff
may the flowers any ? ------------------------------
they smelll so good
there outthere many
they mad-e in motion before my food :)
but where is any ?
i am lost in the forest of my woods
i only can stay here and wait for the
first rays of the sun with a 1000 of moods
i love all this flowers they give honey
some are poison some are hot some want money some of them not
some just water but most of them just want love u
some ask yourself about u and me too
so don..t step on them better show some love
because u will not lost a thing
and lost all if u don..t
also if most of them won..t
i let them grow anyhow
because i love colors - the earth the air the fire the water under the magic rainbow : )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Although the human's feet only occupy a small part of the earth, it is by the space he does not occupy, that man can walk on the immense earth . Although human intelligence only reaches a parcel of the total truth, it is by what it does not reach, that man can understand what is the sky. Tchouang Tze
Hi, Thanks to exist and be alive ! XXX Peace and Love Lehmon
