PAST PERFORMANCES

=======================================================
Sunday the 15 april, 20:00
Salon Concert
Fuglsang/Vest
Åboulevard 50 4.th Copenhagen, Denmark

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tuesday, February 21 at 8:00 PM
John Cage: Sonatas & Interludes played by John Kameel Farah
Naherholung Sternchen
Berolinastr 7, Berlin DE

John Farah performs John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano, in addition to his own compositions for piano and electronics, including a new piece using the same preparation as the Cage piece

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Wednesday, March 14 at 8:00 PM

Salon Concert: John Kameel Farah, piano/electronics
Central Rixdorf
Böhmische Str. 46 Neukölln, Berlin, DE

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Broadcast: December 30, 2011. 10:00pm-midnight
CBC Radio 2, 94.1FM  The Signal with host Laurie Brown.

CBC Radio 2, national broadcast of Attila Fias & John Kameel Farah's Oct. 5th Concert, "Pieces of the Earth".
Compositions and improvisations for two pianos. (concert also streamed)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


"The Sound and Feel of It"
Peggy Baker's choreography feat. John Farah performing John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano

January 20 - 29, 2012   Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis Street, Toronto
prepared piano
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


JAN 28, 2012

El Mocambo, Toronto, ON
Montreal/Toronto trip rock band Sacred Balance and special guest Toronto composer, pianist, electronic musician John Kameel Farah
 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Monday, January 30, 2012,  8:00 PM
"SINGULARITIES"
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Waterloo, Ontario Canada
double bill with Matt Haimovitz and Christopher O'Riley
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Events/Event_Horizons/Singularities/

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OCT 24 and 25, 2011
two concerts at King Kong Klub
Brunnenstraße 173, Berlin, Germany
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CD RELEASE: Fias + Farah piano duo
PIECES OF THE EARTH
Wednesday, October 05 at 8:00 PM
John Kameel Farah & Attila Fias
Gallery 345, 345 Sorauren Avenue,
Toronto
to be recorded for broadcast on CBC Radio 2, The Signal, 94.1FM
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Solo Concert @ Trent University
Wednesday, September 28 at 7:30 PM
John Kameel Farah, piano & electronics
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

TEDx Conference Afterparty concert
Friday, September 23 at 8:00 PM
John Kameel Farah solo piano and electronics
Steamwhistle Brewery Roundhouse
255 Bremner Blvd  Toronto
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Toronto Palestine Film Festival
Sun, Oct 2, 2011
John Kameel Farah
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St, Toronto
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

NUIT BLANCHE
Saturday, October 1, 11:00pm
John Kameel Farah piano/electronics -- visuals by Eamon MacMahon
Toronto Institutue For The Enjoyment Of Music
821 Queen St. W.  Toronto
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Early Music Fair
Saturday, October 1, 2011
John Kameel Farah, harpsichord (playing improvisations and works by William Byrd)
Montgomery's Inn, Toronto

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMER 2011 CONCERT TOUR:

July 10: EXIT Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia

July 12: Ginglik, London UK

July 15: Cafe Oto, London, UK

July 22: Live on-air performance on Resonance 104.4 FM (8-9pm)

July 26: Jacqueline du Pre Music Building
St Hilda's College, Oxford University
Cowley Place, Oxford

Aug 6: What's Classical? Festival, WestJet Stage, Harbourfrount, Toronto


Aug 8: Panel Discussion at
What's Classical? Festival, Lakeside Terrace, Harbourfrount, Toronto

Friday, June 24 at 8:00 PM,  $8.00
"Between Carthage and Rome"

@Beit Zatoun
612 Markham St , Toronto, Canada

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Farah solo piano
Thursday, May 26 at 8:00 PM
at Mica Moca
BERLIN, GERMANY

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mon. April 11 at 9:30 PM
John Kameel Farah @ KING KONG KLUB
Brunnenstr. 173
Berlin, Germany

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Wed, April 20th, 930pm
Wendel
Schlesische Straße 42
10997 Berlin, Germany

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wednesday, April 27 at 9:00 PM
JAZZ & EX (perimental) - LIVE

THEATERKAPELLE
Boxhagener Str. 99
Berlin 10245 GERMANY
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Audible Approaches for a Better Place
Thursday, May 12 at 8:00 PM

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Berlin, Germany

http://www.csides.net

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

17 March, 2011
NUMUS festival
Solo performance, double bill with Heather Taves, piano
Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts.  

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thursday March 24th,  2011  
"Between Carthage and Rome" - new works for piano and electronics
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver Street, New York, New York

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Pecha Kucha
Tuesday, April 05 at 8:00 pm
Festhaal Kreuzberg
Berlin, Germany

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sat, Feb 5, 2011   TRANSMEDIALE
21:30hr
C-Base
Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin, Germany
part of Transmediale Festival


----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
26 Dec 2010    WAVELENGTH Fundraiser
The Garrison    Toronto, Ontario , CA   
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5 Jan 2011    12:00   Noonhour concert series
Arts & Letters Club    Toronto, Ontario, CANADA   
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
22 Jan 2011 
solo performance in Oxford
Modern Art Oxford    Oxford, UK, UNITED KINGDOM   

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
23 Jan 2011   
Ten Feet Tall    Cardiff, South Wales, UNITED KINGDOM
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
January 28, 2011,  8pm
Mme Claude's
Lübbener str. 19
Berlin,  Germany
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Feb 1, 2011
C-Base
Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin, Germany
part of Transmediale Festival
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
November 19, 2010

London Jazz Festival
with The Talking Sages
@ Charlie Wright’s International
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Artist-in-Residence at  Mackenzie Post-Digital for the month of September:

Sept 3, Friday  Opening Welcome at Mackenzie Post Digital, 4 Mackenzie Crescent - 6-9pm
Sept 16, Thurs   Lecture and Recital Night at Mackenzie Post Digital, 4 Mackenzie Crescent - 7-10pm
Sept 24, Friday    Fundraiser for Mackenzie Post Digital at 4 Mackenzie Crescent - 7-10pm
Sept 25, Saturday    Gallery 345, 345 Sorauren Ave - 8pm
Sept 28, Tuesday  Closing Event at Mackenzie Post Digital, 4 Mackenzie Crescent - 6-9pm
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Summer 2010 tour dates:
16 Jul 2010     The Hub, Sao Paulo    São Paulo, SP, BRAZIL
24 Jul 2010    Truck Festival U.K.    Steventon / Oxford, U.K.
25 Jul 2010        The Vortex    London,  U.K.
28 Jul 2010      The Others    London U.K.
29 Jul 2010     The Cellar    Oxford,  U.K.  
31 Jul 2010  Resonance 104.4 FM on "DISORDER AT THE BORDER"    London, U.K.
7 Aug 2010     Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery,    Brecon, WALES, U.K.
10 Aug, 2010   Ten Feet Tall,    Cardiff, WALES, U.K.
14 Aug 2010    The Spice of Life    London,  U.K.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

September 12, 2010, 7:30 pm
Galapagos
16 Main Street, Brooklyn, New York City
with UVA (Ultraviolet Astronomy)
and White Ribbon Highway


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

April 10th, 2010 
John Farah, solo piano/electronics
Alwan for the Arts, New York City, NY

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

April 14th, 2010
Unfolding: John Kameel Farah CD Release Concert
The Tank,     354 West 45th Street, New York City, NY

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

April 15, 2010 7:30 pm
SAADI. John Kameel Farah, itsnotyouitsme, Tom Swafford.
Littlefield (622 Degraw St), Brooklyn, NY

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sunday July 12th,  2009 
"Unfolding" 
CD release concert
El Mocambo, Toronto, Ontario

Composer-pianist John Farah performs works from his new CD "Unfolding"
on piano, rhodes and electronics

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

July 24th, 2009
WRONG MUSIC MEGARAVE
Brighton, U.K.
at The Volks
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Truck Festival
Stevens Farmhouse, Steventon, U.K.

July 25th, midnight
with NonClassical Recordings
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

July 28th, 2009

@ The Others
London, U.K.

solo piano & electronics

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed, August 5th

MacBeth Music Pub
70 Hoxton St, London, London and South East

London CD release party with NonClassical Recordings
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

========================================================

Saturday, July 11 8:00 PM
at Mercury Lounge, Ottawa, Ontario

Ottawa CD release of UNFOLDING
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

melkweg

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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
hamburg
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

February 12, 2008

performance with Marcin Langer and Kazim Calisgan

& solo performance of UNFOLDING

KATAKOMBEN-THEATER IM GIRARDET HAUS

Essen, Germany

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

Paris, France
comet
-------------------------------------------------------------------------


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

CANADIAN ELECTRONIC ENSEMBLE and JOHN KAMEEL FARAH

---------------------------------------------------------------------

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.)

----------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

--------------------------------------------
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

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Friday November 2nd

John Kameel Farah 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

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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

-------------------------------------------------------------------

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


-------------------------------------------------------------------

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


*************************************************************
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

-------------------------------------------------------------------

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

--------------------------------------------------------------------

September 13th, 2007, 8pm

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

in David Daniell's Sunfish Ensemble

------------------------------------------------------------------
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

-----------------------------------------------------------------


Friday, July 27th (starting 11pm)

Pøte:tr
6029a du parc,  Montreal, Quebec

solo piano & electronics w Will Austin Escape


-----------------------------------------------------------------

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 / SHALABI
set with visuals by Eamon MacMahon

-----------------------------------------------------------------

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 *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.).

http://www.beaux-artsbrampton.com

-----------------------------------------------------------------

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.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
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

-----------------------------------------------------------------

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


-----------------------------------------------------------------

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


-----------------------------------------------------------------

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.

-----------------------------------------------

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

------------------------------------------------

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

------------------------------------------------


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.

-------------------------------------------

Friday, February 23rd, 9pm
Solo set at the FRIENDSHIP COVE
215 Murray St, Montréal (Griffintown)
visuals by Eamon MacMahon

-------------------------------------------

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

visuals by Eamon MacMahon


*******************************************

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



********************************************
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



Mar1*******************************************

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

*******************************************

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


******************************************

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


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


*******************************************

Sat. November 4th,
at Lounge -88-

iNSiDEaMiND with JOHN FARAH & DJ VETERAN
release of turntable duo's debut EP "FragMental" 
with JOHN KAMEEL FARAH on piano and other electronics
DJ VETERAN on turntable, fx and loop pedal.
*******************************************

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

******************************************************

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

*******************************************

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

*******************************************
August 25th, 9pm

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

******************************************


"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
===================----
====
*************************************************************************

Sunday, March 6, 2:30pm-11pm
Promise Chamber Event
John Farah performs on piano and computer
60 Atlantic, Arraymusic Studio space, 2nd floor (near King & Dufferin)

*************************************************************************

GRAVITAS 
PORTRAITS OF A UNIVERSE IN MOTION

DVD RELEASE & LIVE PERFORMANCE

Featuring music by John Kameel Farah, visuals by John Dubinski

<>      Date:  Thursday 9 March, 2006
      Time:   7:00pm doors, 7:30pm show start
      Tickets: $15 regular/$12 member + senior/$10 student
      Venue:  St. George-the-Martyr Anglican Church
      Address: 197 John St. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

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.

ABOUT THE GRAVITAS ANIMATIONS

The Gravitas visuals were generated using the world’s 39th-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.

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 9th 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.

************************************************

JOHN KAMEEL FARAH live at the Drake Hotel
computer, harpsichord, piano, intense breakcore keyboard improvisation
MARCH 21 as part of “Notes from Underground” art event
cover $5 doors open 9pm, Farah set at 11pm 2006
The Drake Underground, 1150 Queen W<>

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

************************************************
February 17th 2006 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
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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".
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RADIO broadcast...
**Fri. Nov 11, 2005 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.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Wednesday, Nov 16 2005 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
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ART OPENING Tuesday Dec. 13 2005
I WANT TO GO TO AFRICA

photos, field recordings and stories gathered by Sook-Yin Lee

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

SPECTACLE SPECTACULAR Friday Dec. 16  2005

Seikou, John Kameel Farah & Sook-Yin Lee
No Dynamics
DJ Will Munroe<> <>Doors open 7:30 PM Begins 8PM SHARP! (over by midnite)
XPACE
 303 AUGUSTA - 416 849 2864
for complete info please visit:www.xpace.info
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"GRAVITAS"
Concert, October 15th, 2005
The Music Gallery
St. George-the-Martyr Church, 197 John Street (at Stephanie street) order tickets call 416.204.1080
$10 regular/$7 members&seniors/$5 students
JohnKameel Farah, piano+synthesizer+electronics
visual projections by John Dubinski

Toronto Astronomer John Dubinski had made video simulations using a supercomputer at U of T (about 500 CPUs linked together) of galaxy formations and collisions, but wanted them set to music to give them an emotional and spiritual context for us puny humans. Composer-pianist Kameel Farahs’s last concert at the Music Gallery, “Creation”, was an epic abstract of the creation of the universe. When the two friends exchanged stories of recent projects at a pub, it was the beginning of an if unlikely, collaboration. In this concert, “Gravitas”,  Farah weaves through pianistic improvisations and surreal electronic landscapes, accompanied by Dubinski’s extraordinary visuals.
John Dubinski (visuals) is an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and CITA working on a variety of topics in galaxy formation and dynamics. His research interests focus on the connections between cosmology and galactic dynamics.


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



June 6, 2003.
3-hour electronic/keyboard improvisation set of ambient and DrumAndBass at the Sumkidz Om Festival

September 22, 2002.
1-hour set at the Alien Influx Harvest Festival.


The Theatre Centre Presents: Body Geometry
December 5-10. 2002 @
Theatre Passe-Muraille
The fourth instalment in a series of showcases for newly commissioned multidisciplinary performances. United by a common theme, some of the city's most exciting artists develop their pieces independently and then gather to create a daring work of cutting-edge vitality. Incorporating the disciplines of music, film, dance, and theatre.
Performers commissioned this year: Sandra Alland, Gil Garrat, Katherine Duncanson
Music composed and performed by John Farah



November, 2002.
John Farah performs concerts of his compositions and improvisations for piano and electronics in Ramallah, East Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Palestine. Also conducts several piano and improvisation masterclasses.


October 11, 2002. 8.30 pm., Harbourfront Centre.
Canadian Arab Heritage Day presents:
TekArabic: John Farah improvising on keyboard and electronics


JewelBox - new music for wind quintet and piano
Saturday, December 1, 2001 at 8:00
Church of St. George the Martyr, 197 John Street, Toronto
The Onyx Wind Quintet and John Kameel Farah perform:
Solitaires for solo piano by Keith Denning (World premiere)
zapada zmrok (piano + wind quintet) by Piotr Grella-Mozejko (Toronto premiere)

The Theatre Centre Presents: Body Geometry
December 5-16. 2001 @
Theatre Passe-Muraille
This is the third instalment in a series of showcases for newly commissioned multidisciplinary performances. United by a common theme, some of the city's most exciting artists develop their pieces independently and then gather to create a daring work of cutting-edge vitality. Incorporating the disciplines of music, film, dance, theatre and circus arts.
Choreography, artistic direction and video by Kayt Lucas, Jane Miller, Bluemouth Inc., Viv Moore and
Julia Sasso
Music by John Farah


October 13, 2001. 8.30 pm., Harbourfront Centre.
Canadian Arab Heritage Day presents:
John Farah, composer/pianist performing on a piano tuned to the Arabic Maqam.



John Kameel Farah, pianist
May 10/00, The Music Gallery
programme:
Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952) Ländler (1979)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (b. 1928) nr. 7 Klavierstücke XI (1957)
Anthony Genge (b. 1952) Four Quiet Preludes (1994)
Louis Andriessen (b. 1939) Trepidus (1983)
Michael Oesterle (b. 1968) Têtes-Mortes (1999)
John Farah (b. 1973) Red Gaze (1999-2000) (10’)
Daniel Charles Foley (b. 1952) Winterludes (1997)
Karlheinz Stockhausen nr. 7 Klavierstücke XI (1957)

John Kameel Farah, piano
Wednesday, February 9, 2000, 8.00 pm
Victoria Chapel, 91 Charles St W

Programme:
Peter Hatch (b. 1957) - Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (1988)
John Kameel Farah (b. 1973) - Red Gaze (1999)
Anthony Genge (b. 1952) - Four Quiet Preludes (1994)
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) - Klavierstücke, Op. 33a (1929), Op. 33b (1931)

(intermission)

improvisations
click here to view liner notes

Wednesday, October 20, 1999, 6.30 pm

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


John Kameel Farah, pianist
performs in recital on Saturday, October 23, 1999, 8 pm
at
the National Music Conservatory, Ramallah, Palestine

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


Wednesday, July 28, 1999, 8.00 pm

John Kameel Farah, pianist
The Chapel, Victoria College, 91 Charles St. West

Dmitri Shostakovich - from “Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues” Op. 87
Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major (1950)
Prelude and Fugue No. 19 in E-flat major (1951)

Wolfgang Rihm - Ländler (1979)

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji - Fantasiettina sul nome iIlustre dell'egregio poeta Christopher Grieve ossia Hugh M'Diarmid (1961)

Olivier Messiaen - from "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jèsus" (1944)
I. Regard du Père
II. Regard de l'étoile
XIII. Noël
XVI. Regard des prophètes, des bergers et des Mages

-intermission-

Improvisations

click here to view the liner notes



Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Quartets
Tuesday, April 6, 1999. 8.30 pm, 1140 King Street West, Hamilton

Mozart (1756-1791) - Quartet in G minor, K. 478

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

________________________________________________________________________

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

Home
Upcoming Performances
Electronic Music
Compositions
Artwork
Writings and Ideas
Pianist Repertoire
Links
Contact