L I N K S

Galaxy Dynamics - GRAVITAS is a collaboration between John Dubinski, an astronomer at the University of Toronto and John Farah.  Animation sequences of interacting galaxies are set to original music creating a compelling synthesis of sound, motion, vast dimensions and timescales and Newton's universal laws of gravity.
CBC interview on the Arts Tonight May 2005: Eleanor Wachtel interviews John Dubinski and John Farah about GRAVITAS  
Click here to read about a performance of Gravitas at the Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico

Ian Miller -  visual artist based in the U.K.  Fascinating combination of fantastical and geometrical abstract.

Eamon MacMahon - Toronto-based photographer.

Ernst Fuchs, Viennese painter and visionary.

A Bequest Unearthed, Phoenicia, an overview of the Canaanites/Phoenicians (an integral part of the people of the Levant's makeup/ancestry). A good information resource, and I believe for one to learn about what is going on one has to read from the full spectrum of opinions and historical narratives.

Turath: A Resource for World Arts, interviews and information on the history of Arabic music & music theory.

Birzeit University, education institution in the Occupied Territories.

Bat Shalom, a human rights organisation in Israel-Palestine led by Palestinian and Israeli women.

Maktaba,  library and resource for Middle-Eastern history, arts & culture

ButtonsnButtons -  is an independent Toronto based button designer


Music Sites, Arts Organisations & Groups

The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music  West Bank / Palestine

Dross:tik Records experimental electronic music label of DJ C64, releasing my album "Unfolding" this summer

Maqam World a comprehensive site for those wishing to know more about the Maqam system, used in Arab, Turkic Persian and other musical cultures.

Phalasteen,  visual/sound art collective, cartoons &  hiphop activism.

Azerbaijani Magam,  interesting because it claims and maintains that the Arabic/Turkish Maqam (scales/modes) originated in Azerbaijan as "Mugam"; the word root and concept not only is shared with the Persian "Destgah", the Indian "Raga" but with cultures all the way to "Gagaku" in Japan.

JoyFusion, improvised music of 'Oudist Thomas al-Hamad

Ramallah Underground, Palestinian electronic music artists.

On the Circuit: Filmmaker and Star of Slingshot Hip Hop: a Podcast Documentary by director Jackie Reem Salloum, about the alternative resistance to the Israeli-Palestinian found in young Palestinian hip hop groups.

DreamWalker Dance, choreographer Andrea Nann's dance works

Claviers Baroques - Upper Canada Historical Keyboards - "Harpsichord wranglers to the stars"

Andrew Wedman - piano tuning and regulation I highly recommend - also creates well-crafted music

AIMT - Association of Improvising Musicians of Toronto

angelusnovus.net Toronto composer collective and internet label

Dubslingers, Toronto Dubstep producers & spinners

Blissfultimes, poetry & writing of Sandra Alland


Musicians

Terry Riley, composer, pianist, improvisor.

Noah Pred, innovative house and down-tempo DJ/electronic producer

Nik Beeson Toronto-based composer of electronic music.

iNSiDEaMiND two man vinyl scratch band

Alwin Tong guitarist, web designer

Frank Horvat,  pianist-composer

Domirela's Musicland - site of imaginative pianist Georgiana Balanica.

Sarah Peebles - electronic composer

Dafydd Hughes - composer, jazz pianist



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