PAST PERFORMANCES

Jun 9, 2009  8pm
Imperial Pub

VTO Victoriaville Festival (Toronto)
solo piano set - John Farah
2nd set: Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello, Jason Roebke - bass, Frank Rosaly - drums

FEB 3rd, 2008

John Kameel Farah, Ramallah Underground, Checkpoint 303 perform at:
The Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

John Farah, Ramallah Underground, Checkpoint 303 and DJ Takimi "De
Levante": De Levante is an organisation based in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands: a platform for artists with different ages and
backgrounds who have an interest in art and oriental cultures. De
Levante’s goal is to expose everyone in The Netherlands to the various
rich cultures from the Middle - East. 


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Feb 6th, 2008
London, U.K.

Nonclassical Recordings concert at Macbeth's Pub
Music inspired by the European canon, techno and avant-garde

J.K.Farah on mini-piano + rhodes, laptop performance of "Unfolding" 
check out Nonclassical on Myspace: 
http://www.myspace.com/nonclassicalmusic

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Saturday, Feb 9th, 8:00pm
John Kameel Farah performs at Kreuzkirche Alt-Barmbek 
Wohldorfer Straße 30b, Hamburg, Germany 
John Farah, piano and electronics at Kreuzkirche Alt-Barmbek, Hamburg
Click HERE to read an article in the HAMBURG EXPRESS 

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Sunday, Feb 10th, 10:00pm
electronic music + piano at Yoko Mono Bar
Marktstrasse 41, Hamburg, Germany

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February 12, 2008

performance with Marcin Langer and Kazim Calisgan 
& solo performance of UNFOLDING

KATAKOMBEN-THEATER IM GIRARDET HAUS

Essen, Germany

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February 15th, 2008
performance at Le Gousset Vide
Comète 347
45 rue du Faubourg du Temple

Paris, France

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Wednesday, Dec 19th, 2007 10:00pm, PWYC
at the Tranzac 292 Brunswick ave, Toronto 

CANADIAN ELECTRONIC ENSEMBLE and JOHN KAMEEL FARAH
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Friday, Dec 28th, at the WHITE ORCHID, 812 Dundas West
Dubslingers holiday reunion special.

upper floor, spinning (jungle, dubstep etc):
C-RAT (Ottawa) vs. 1NV151BL1NG (T.O.) tagteam
CRENDORE (Vancouver) (NERDCORE anagram?)
JAWBONE & ENLIGHT (Dubslingers, T.O.)

lower floor (live, experimental P.A.) 1 hour sets:
[T.B.C.] -- (Salt Spring Island, B.C.) live bass synth over computer dj
JOHN KAMEEL FARAH (rhodes, computer, synth, symphonic Dubstep noise
free jazz IDM)
C.O.I. (brokenbeat.ca, T.O.)
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Monday Dec 10th, 2007 
Toronto Noise Promotions presents IDM/Breakcore night at White Orchid
White Orchid, 812 Dundas St. W. (west of Bathurst)   $5door 
featuring Raxyor, TalixZen, This Instrument, Eyesoar, Pik-Pocket, 
John Kameel Farah, and DJ Razorgrrl.

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October 14th, 2007    9:30pm-midnight 
The TRANZAC  292 Brunswick ave, toronto,  ( pwyc )

John Farah with Mitchell Akiyama and Drew Wedman on piano/electronics 
http://www.myspace.com/intrversion

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Friday November 2nd 

JOHN KAMEEL AND HAUSCHKA
Music Gallery, St George-the-Martyr Church, @ Stephanie & John Street 
presented, recorded and broadcast by CBC Radio Two, The SIGNAL
Cost:  $10/15 
full concert with solo piano, harpsichord, organ, computer, synth

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THURS, November 8th, 9:00 PM

Avant-Garde Bar
135 1/2 Besserer St.,  Ottawa, Ontario,  $10/sliding scale

Pianist/electronic producer mixes experimental Drum&Bass/Jungle
with free jazz, baroque, ambient, techno and middle-eastern influences.
John Farah plays - electric (Rhodes) piano, synth, computer
http://www.avantgardebar.com

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Nov 10th, 2007

At the Glenn Gould Studio with Quinsin Nachoff

ALSO that same night......
@ 10:30Concord Cafe, (Bloor & Concord)

J K Farah perfroms in the BREAKCORE ELIMINATION marathon
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September 29th 2007
Nuit Blanche, Music Gallery
St George-the-Martyr Church

7pm     ben grossman  hurdygurdy 
8pm     deb sinha     perc 
9pm     andrew downing     bass
10pm     john gzowski    guitar 
11pm parmela attariwala     violin 
12pm     nick fraser     drums 
1am     nick storring     cello
2am     christine duncan    voice
3am jonny dovercourt     guitar 
4am     john kameel farah    keys 
5am     erik and/or cheldon (insideamind) turntables 

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Oct 4th, 2007

The Power Plant, Harbourfront Centre
http://www.aud-io.com/pp/ 

(performing with other musicians & visual artists/projections)
Thursday October 4th, 8pm to 12 Midnight at The Power Plant Gallery of
Contemporary Art Toronto Harbourfront Centre Process > Product
(process is greater than product) presents the second in a series of
lounge events at The Power Plant Gallery of Contemporary Art: The Joint
Venture An evening of chill immersive music and video in a gallery
setting. Featuring a huge video screen, surround sound, and live
improvised music. 
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HARCORN -=- FRI OCT 5th @ SMILING BUDDHA [961 College]  {9pm-3am} $5

THANKSGIVIN'R BASSBEAT CROP-UP!
all your bass are belong to:

J.K. FARAH
[TBC]
CLIPH & GORF
POCKETROOT
DJ SESS.ION
1NV151BL1NG
http://www.dubslingers.com

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Sat. Oct 6th at The Smoke Gallery
4654 Queen St (Niagara Falls, Ontario) 

Description:running all day & all night my artwork on the walls of
a 6’x45’ space playing sets of my music in the evening to midnight
visit: http://www.smokegallery.ca

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August 30th, 2007 *7:00 p.m.*
The TRANZAC  292 Brunswick ave, Toronto, PWYC

with Glenn Hall, reeds
Nilan Perera, guitar
Nick Storring, cello
John Kameel Farah, piano
Mike Hansen, electronics
violin/erhu player called Black Ninfea 

http://www.myspace.com/blackninfea

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August 30th, 2007, *11:00p.m.*

SAVAGE GARDEN 
550 Queen St W, Toronto

TORONTO NOISE PROMOTIONS
"TECHNICAL GLITCH" 
experimental IDM Breakcore 

Music by: 
ghost of a flea 
Entropy 
DJ Razorgrrl 
Notaform 
The first seed 
Nwodtlem 
john kameel farah

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September 13th, 2007, 8pm

The Music Gallery, St George-the-Martyr Church, 197 John St, Toronto

playing in the ensemble of David Daniell: 

Performing on the first day of the Music Gallery's X Avant Festival (on
a bill with Wooden Stars). This performance will be an extended version
of the "Sunfish" track from the album Coastal. The band will consist
of: David Daniell: acoustic & pedal steel guitars; Sandro Perri:
acoustic & lap steel guitars; Colin Fisher, Geordie Haley, and Neil
Haverty: acoustic guitars; Randy Lee: violin; Mika Posen: viola; Tilman
Lewis: cello; John Kameel Farah: piano; Jonny Dovercourt: bass; Dean
Wales: drum kit; Eric Woolston: vibraphone & percussion.

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July 21st, 2007 at The Tranzac
(Brunswick & Bloor)  

In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the death of John Coltrane (Sept 23rd, 1926
- July 17th, 1967) 

Coltrane's masterwork: ASCENSION performed in its entirety. 

Featuring: Lina Allemano,trumpet 
Evan Shaw, alto 
Jeremy Strachan, alto 
Colin Fisher, tenor 
Kyle Brenders, tenor 
John Kameel Farah, keyboards 
Mike Smith, bass
Brandon Valdivia, drums

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Friday, July 27th (starting 11pm)

Pøte:tr
6029a du parc,  Montreal, Quebec

solo piano & electronics w Will Austin Escape

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Saturday, July 28th, 9pm
CASA del POPOLO
4873 Boul. St-Laurent, Montreal

1st set SAM SHALABI on Oud and Guitar/electronics

2nd set JOHN FARAH on electric piano (rhodes), computer and electronics

3rd set FARAH and SHALABI both play

set with visuals by Eamon MacMahon

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Creative Brother and Sister Team Mary
Farah and John Kameel Farah Present

Mixed Media and Line Work at Beaux Arts Brampton Gallery

Exhibition from Aug 7th to 25th
Opening reception Thurs, Aug 9, 6-10pm *Musical performance at 8pm*

Beaux Arts Brampton Gallery is presenting an exhibition by a brother
and sister duo, Mary Farah and John Farah. Each artist uses different
media and have profoundly different styles. 

Mary Farah's artistic concern repeats the shape of a reclining female
figure - one that has been used traditionally for centuries by artists
- in different contexts and in a range of media to create paintings and
drawings rife with meaning, expression, colour and movement. In
contrast, John Farah's black and white drawings consist of intricate
ink lines, capturing movements of microscopic and macropscopic energies
and hidden intertwining spirits that take the viewer on an ethereal
journey. 


John will give a musical performance on keyboards and electronics at 8
p.m. at the opening reception on Thursday, August 9 (6-10 p.m.).



70-74 Main St. N.. Hours: Tues-Fri.: noon-6 pm, Sat: 9am-3pm

Beaux Arts Brampton Gallery, tel: 905-454-5677,

http://www.beaux-artsbrampton.com
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AIMToronto Presents the Second Annual

MUSIC(in)GALLERIES
2-5pm, Saturday 14 July, 2007.

3:30 XPACE 58 Ossington Ave.

Kyle Brenders saxophones & John Kameel Farah keyboards

Live creative music, Queen Street West art galleries. 
Short, overlapping sets by small groups of improvising musicians 
(thirty eight players in total) starting at 2pm, moving steadily 
westward, and finishing at 5pm.

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Musicworks Magazine Fundraiser

Saturday, June 24th, 1:00pm (Farah playing from 1:30-2:00pm)

at Inter-Access, 9 Ossington Avenue (at Queen), Toronto  (416) 599-7206

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Thursday, June 28th

"The Atonal Maqam"
John Farah, solo piano 

7pm - 9pm at The Tranzac 

292 Brunswick ave,
Toronto  Cost:  PWYC

"The Atonal Maqam" : strumming the universe, slowly uncovering
reverberations of the piano as stone recedes to reveal a sculpture

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July 6th, 11pm admission FREE

John Kameel Farah performs at "Beats, Breaks & Culture" Festival

Lakeside Terrace, Harbourfront

235 Queens Quay West

11:00pm John Farah on piano,
computer, synth, harpsichord

12:30am VitaminsForYou

http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com

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May 24th at the TRANE STUDIO, 964 Bathurst 

John Kameel Farah,
piano/computer/electronics at 930pm
visuals created by photographer Eamon MacMahon 

... the "ATONAL MAQAM", my improvising which 
combines the ornamental and melodic indiosynchasies
of middle-eastern modes with atonal harmonies...... the result has a
strange ambience that has a potent effect especially when alternating
between breakcore/dubstep electronic sections. The sections with beats
function as pillars holding up the superstructure of the overall
composition. Eamon's visuals, masterfully edited, provide a bouncing
board for the mind to immediately contextualise the vast orchestral and
cultural palette for a gripping experience.

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Sun. Mar 11th PROMISE ELECTRONIC & CHAMBER EVENT
Arraymusic Space, 80 Atlantic Ave (King & Dufferin)

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Sunday, April 1st, 9pm
Solo set at WAVELENGTH 
Sneaky Dee's, Bathurst & College

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Friday, 2 March, 11 pm, Quorum plays with John Farah, piano; 
Leftover Daylight Series, Arraymusic studio, 
60 Atlantic, south of King, 2nd floor, side door, ring buzzer 
for entry.
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Friday, February 23rd, 9pm
Solo set at the FRIENDSHIP COVE
215 Murray St, Montréal (Griffintown)
visuals by Eamon MacMahon

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February, 24 2007 
pote:tr 6029a du parc, Montréal
with The Will Austin Escape
visuals by Eamon MacMahon


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Sunday, January 28th, 2007. 9:00 PM

TRANE STUDIO, 964 Bathurst St, Toronto 
CLOSING CONCERT near the end of the art Exhibition

feat: JOHN KAMEEL FARAH keyboard, synth, electronics
and T A S A featuring: Ravi Naimpally - tabla, dumbek
John Gzowski - guitar, oud
Ernie Tollar - sax, arabic flute (nay)
Alan Heatherington - drums/percussion
Chris Gartner - bass

From approx. Jan 6 to Feb 1, 2007, 
Ink Line Drawings and oils/pastels will be on display at
Trane Studio, ph:416.913.8197



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JOHN KAMEEL FARAH & ERIC SHINN
2006 WORLD TOUR DECEMBER 15-16-17
>>>>date:   FRIDAY December 15
continent: Danceathonia (Mile End)
venue:  pote:tr - 6029A du Parc  price:  $5 / PWYC   time:   10pm-all night
feat:Hypercolour  John Kameel Farah   Jawbone   TBC   Coi  Otherpeoplesmusic  Hinder
>>>>date:  SATURDAY December 16
continent: Oceanoisea (Griffintown)
venue: the friendship cove - 215 murray
feat: John Kameel Farah & Eric Shinn    Render   Thames    Gmckrr
>>>>date: SUNDAY December 17 @ Casa Del Popolo
continent: Ambiental Technorient (Plateau)
venue: Casa del Popolo - 4873 boul. St-Laurent, Montreal
feat:   John Kameel Farah     Eric Shinn   Mitchell Akiyama



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Dec 2 at 22 Wallace Ave (warehouse space N of Landsdowne & Bloor)
Solo piano performance and collaboration with Interrobang Ensemble

massive installation gallery and music event
visit http://www.heathernicol.ca
for full details

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Dec 1 at the Trane Studio
with the Avataar Collective
964 Bathurst St., Toronto  416.913.819

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November 21st @ Supermarket in Kensington Mkt 
opening set for NY musicians James apollo and Clifton Hyde

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Thurs, Oct 26, 7pm-9pm 
The Tranzac
John Kameel Farah, piano & electronics
Rick Hyslop, violin & effects

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Sat. November 4th, at Lounge -88-

iNSiDEaMiND with JOHN FARAH & DJ VETERAN

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Sun, Oct 22, 9pm
.....Out on a Limb (instrumentalists accompanying singers)
John Farah, piano - other performers TBA
The Tranzac, 292
Brunswick
Avenue, Phone: (416) 923-8137

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Fri, Oct 6, 9:00pm $10/$6
John Farah, solo piano
Leftover Daylight Series
60 Atlantic, Arraymusic Studio
space, 2nd floor (near King & Dufferin)

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Thur, Sept 21, 2006, door opens after 8, music starts 9pm
John Farah, keyboard, synth & electronics
Nilan Perera, altered electric guitar and effects
Eric Shinn, unexpected musical re-inventions
At the Gladstone Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel
Queen St W & Gladstone (E of Dufferin)
1214 Queen Street West Ph: 416.531.4635

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Performing a set on electric piano, laptop, electronics
on a double bill with WAPSTAN (didgeridoo & electronics) and Eric Shinn
at Pharmacie Esperanza in Montreal
5490 St-Laurent (at the
corner of St-Viateur), ph:948-3303

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"CREATION" CD release show
MAY 16th at the Drake Hotel Underground
1150 Queen St W, $5-10 sliding scale (CDs $10)

Composer-pianist-producer John Kameel Farah performs works from his debut solo CD Creation on
piano, harpsichord, synthesizer, computer and electronic, joined by an array of talented & imaginative musicians: DJ Hypercolour, Laura Barrett & Richard Carnegie, Beyonder,
Yoshie & Chie, with DJs Noah Pred and Eric Downer rounding out the night.

John's music is a synthesis of elements found in various electronic forms (IDM, music concréte,
drum&bass) with keyboard improvisations informed by his experience in Baroque, Renaissance, Modern and Experimental classical music (in 1998 he performed the complete pano works of Arnold Schoenberg), creating a unified and integrated music that crosses time and dimension.
(Farah's intricate black ink line drawings are included on the 6-panel CD insert and slide images of his art will be projected during one of his sets.)

9pm door, DJ HyperColour (Eric Shinn) 
turntables/laptop, also playing between bands 

9.30 DUO: Laura Barrett-Kalimba, John Farah-harpsichord
and piano 

9.50 DUO: FARAH and jazz pianist/producer Attila Fias play a 20-minute ambient set on piano,
haprisichord, synths while still images of Farah's line
drawing are projected onto side-screens
(view some of these at http://www.johnfarah.com/art.html)

10.20 YOSHI AND CHIE - didgeridoo, sitar, voice & electronics 

11.50 BEYONDER - Post-Sci-Fi Bramptonian Acid-Metal improv: 
Craig Watters, bass; Sean Best, drums; Ed Rigonan, turntables and electronics 
(in my opinion, exceptionally talented and deserving of attention)

11.15 FARAH set on piano, harpsichord,
synthesizer, computer and electronics playing works
from CD. *visual projections by Eamon MacMahon*

12.00am BEYONDER jam with Farah on Fender Rhodes,

12.45am ERIC DOWNER & NOAH PRED of Metapath & Fukhouse spinning techno...
http://www.noahpred.com
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Sunday, March 6, 2:30pm-11pm

GRAVITAS 
PORTRAITS OF A UNIVERSE IN MOTION

DVD RELEASE & LIVE PERFORMANCE

Featuring music by John Kameel Farah, visuals by John Dubinski

The Gravitas live performance will be preceded by a short talk from John Dubinski, and the first-ever performance of John Kameel Farah’s new 30-minute composition based on “The Music of the Spheres”, from Johannes Kepler’s 1619 book Harmonices Mundi.

ABOUT THE GRAVITAS DVD

Gravitas on DVD marks the debut independent product release from an ongoing multi-year audio-visual collaboration between John Dubinski, an astronomer-animator at the University of Toronto, and John Kameel Farah, an independent Toronto pianist, composer and electronic musician.

Dubinski’s supercomputer simulations visualizing the dynamic long-term movements of galaxies are the basis for Farah’s breathtaking musicosmological accompaniment. Taken together, the resulting synthesis of science and art is a truly epic and epiphanic experience in warped perceptions of time, space, scale and perspective.

This self-published DVD features 45-minutes of animation in 8 sequences each accompanied by original music. Also included are 3-D glasses to view a bonus track, and a fold-out poster.

ABOUT THE GRAVITAS ANIMATIONS

The Gravitas visuals were generated using the world’s 39^th-fastest supercomputer, the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics’ 512-CPU device named McKenzie, with a benchmark speed of 1.2 Teraflops making it the fastest in Canada. John Dubinski used this parallel-processing power to model the heavenly bodies of outer space as millions of dancing data points in virtual space, gracefully subjected to an intricate choreography by Newton’s universal laws of gravity and motion.

Galaxies appear as collections of interacting particles that represent stars and mysterious dark matter, rendered as animations by mapping camera paths within the unfolding simulations, and sequentially outputting screen captures frame by frame from the unique points-of-view. The results show galaxies as complex dynamical objects, with gravity driving the mutual attraction within and between them, leading to beautiful transient forms: spirals, tails, shells and ripples.

Since in reality these vast changes in morphology occur on scales of millions of light years and durations of billions of years, a main goal of these animations is to compress the duration of such slow and majestic progressions into accelerated ranges accessible to human eyes as never before. This new viewing experience breathes understanding in 45 minutes of screen projection into processes that began long before our time and will continue long afterwards.

ABOUT THE GRAVITAS MUSIC

John Kameel Farah’s composition of the Gravitas score began in 2003 with a test piece composed to accompany John Dubinski’s initial simulation of the Andromeda-Milky Way collision. After this successful experiment, the collaboration was extended to a complete 8-movement musical setting premiered in October 2005 at the Music Gallery in Toronto.

Embracing an earnest synthesis between musical styles, Farah’s score absorbs and reconstitutes passing genres like a black hole anchoring nebulous niche revolutions. Terms like “classical”, “jazz improv”, “electronica”, or “world music” are aligned and eclipsed from an orbital vantage on composition that puts current trends in wide perspective with ancient origins.

This retro-futuristic sound is forged from a molten core of music history specifically poured to fit the astronomical mold of Dubinski’s gravity simulations. “Contributions to music as well as astronomy have bounced back and forth from east to west since Babylon,” says Farah, citing the evolution of keyboard instruments from the Arabic oud to the European lute, then clavichord, harpsichord, piano, and the electronic keyboards of today. This informs the near-eastern flair that he brings to sections of his Gravitas score, particularly in the Future Sky movement.

Taking his cue from the vast cosmic ballet of galaxies in motion, Farah’s music references dance forms as diverse as renaissance pavanes, millennial breakbeats, tribal trance and ambient minimalism. Instrumentation handily decrypts keyboards ranging from single manual harpsichord to laptop, using a Yamaha U3 upright piano, Nord Lead synthesizer, Fender Rhodes, Pianet, and G4 500mHz Powerbook with M-Audio Firewire 410 sound card. Software used ranges from Logic Audio 6 to Ableton Live, various Reaktor ensembles, EXS24 softsampler, Pluggo FX plugins and instruments, and dozens of softsynths. 

Despite the complex palette Farah’s compositions are intended simply to be serene and wondrous, arousing contemplation for the beauty of the universe in motion. Just as Dubinski’s animations use the power of current computing to visualize Newtonian physics like never before, in effect Farah’s music performs a contemporary matrix transformation upon the classical conventions of chamber music, providing a digital analogue for the world of camera obscura illuminated in accelerated pinhole bullet-time.

ABOUT THE LIVE PERFORMANCE:  
GRAVITAS & HARMONICES MUNDI

GRAVITAS: The 45-minutes of visuals which appear on the Gravitas DVD are projected on the big screen, accompanied by breathtaking original score performed live by John Kameel Farah. The experience is enhanced by improvised musical bridges performed between each movement to create a continuous flow between the DVD chapters.

Unlike a recording, the inherent uniqueness of every improvised live performance highlights the subjective nature of interpreting the cosmos aesthetically. With Farah’s inner emotional needle as guiding compass, the journey from inner recesses of the mind to outer reaches of the galaxy is navigated via the scenic route, all within the lovely acoustic and architectural interior of St-George-the-Martyr Church. 

HARMONICES MUNDI: As an introduction to John Kameel Farah’s live performance of Gravitas on March 9^th 2006, he will also present the first-ever playing of his new 30-minute composition based on “The Music of the Spheres” from Johannes Kepler’s 1619 book Harmonices Mundi. Kepler (1571-1630) published this five-volume text with illustrations elaborating upon a cosmology of heaven and earth, founded on geometry and harmony.

Illustrating the movements of the solar system through musical translation, his “Music of the Spheres” assigns musical intervals based on the relative maximum and minimum angular velocities of the planets in our solar system as measured from the sun. Whereas according to Kepler’s musical formula this composition would take 30 years to perform in real-time, using as his basis a MIDI transcription of the score John Kameel Farah will represent the Music of the Spheres in approximately 30-minutes, applying his own sound palette to the original code as well as remixing live several other recorded interpretations.

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MAY 16 solo CD release concert
at the The Drake Underground,
visuals by Eamon MacMahon

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February 17th at the Drake Underground
Eric Shinn presents the first of six monthly sonic futurecasting experiments spanning a rainbow of quantum illogic!
Performers: Galaxy + Wapstan + Laura Barrett (KALIMBA) +  John Kameel Farah (HARPSICHORD) +
Richard Carnegie (BASS)  + Hooliganship + Zeesy Powers + Katie Stelmanis
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T.V. broadcast... follow this link to watch a piece on Farah/Dubinski's GRAVITAS concert. on Discovery channel's "Daily Planet", and click on "Astronomical Sympthony".
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RADIO broadcast...
**Fri. Nov 11, around 12:45 a.m.
John Farah's performance from Jan. 12, 2005 at the Music Gallery
as part of the Music Avant Series - One Man Bands
will be broadcast on Brave New Waves, 99.1 FM, CBC Radio 2 nationwide.
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Wednesday, Nov 16 at the Cameron House on Queen St, West of Bathurst
Friendly Rich Presents... The Lollipop People
Opening shows: John Kameel Farah on harpsichord/beats/computer/synth
Improvisation of Scott Thompson(trombone)/John Oswald (sax)
a premier film by DT Fischer
$6 at the door
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ART OPENING Tuesday Dec. 13
I WANT TO GO TO AFRICA
photos, field recordings and stories gathered by Sook-Yin Lee

An autobiographical account from an outsider’s perspective. Sook-Yin weaves the tragic-comic story of the breakdown of her 5-year relationship set to the intensity of her experiences in Senegal & The Gambia.

Music by Gambian djembe drummer Seikou, noise-explorer John Kameel Farah on laptop/keys and SYL on vocals.

Selector: A Man Called Warwick. This DJs operative is to get people dancing to his incredible array of vinyl-only African records from the 60s & 70s. 

Other Tales of High Adventure

SPECTACLE SPECTACULAR Friday Dec. 16 

April 22nd, 2004
Creation: a physical, emotional and spiritual interpretation of the Creation Epic
John Kameel Farah-piano, synthesizer, computer
Eamon Mac Mahon-photography and visual projections
opening ambient set by Nik Beeson

John Kameel Farah, pianist
C.E.R.I.S.E.
46 rue Montorgueil (near Saint-Eustache), Paris, France
Programme:
Bach - English Suite in D minor
Shostakovitch - 3 Preludes and Fugues
intermission
Charles Kœchlin - excerpts from Les Heures Persanes
Louis Andriessen - Trepidus (1983)
Olivier Messiaen - Quatre Regards sur L’Enfant-Jésus

click here to view the liner notes

Programme:
Bach - English Suite in D minor
Shostakovitch - Prelude and Fugue no. 15 in D-flat major
Prelude and Fugue no. 23 in F major
-intermission-
Charles Kœchlin - excerpts from Les Heures Persanes
Chopin - Scherzo in C-sharp minor, Opus 49
Olivier Messiaen
Quatre Regards sur L’Enfant-Jésus

click here to view the liner notes

Anton Webern (1883-1945) - Variations, Opus 27

Mozart - Quartet in E-flat major, K. 493

Daniel Kushner, violin
Mary McGeer, viola
Alex Grant, cello
John Kameel Farah, piano

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Wednesday, April 29, 1998
Metropolitan United Church, Toronto (Queen & Church St)

Complete solo piano works of Arnold Schoenberg
(Opus 11, 19, 23, 25, 33a, 33b)

John Farah, piano

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