[event] Playfreely IV // 28th May 2011 @ Black Box, Goodman Arts Centre

When you start to play off the top of your head, that's when the truth is really known about people. - Steve Howe

A 6 part series of spontaneous, inventive musical collaboration between musicians from diverse musical backgrounds and genres. Venturing into unfamiliar artistic terrains, Playfreely engages various groups in a collaborative exchange to improvise without any boundaries, to release the shapes that are latent in that unique moment of time... to play freely.

Artists:

Dominic Wan – acoustic guitar, woodwind

Ty Constant (Ang Mo Faux) – percussion

Tim O’Dwyer (Tim O’Dwyer Trio) – saxophone

Eli (The Psalms) - voice

Susanne Wurmnest – viola, saw

Joyce Teo (BronzAge Gamelan Ensemble) – assorted gamelan instruments

Part IV will be purely acoustic, without any amplification.

Presented by The Observatory in partnership with Ujikaji Records.

Contact The Observatory at info@theobservatory.com.sg

Entry by donation (minimum $10).

Interviews, features and more on Playfreely at:

theobservatory.com.sg

ujikajirecords.wordpress.com

[event] Playfreely III // 13th May 2011 @ Black Box, Goodman Arts Centre

PLAYFREELY III

13 May 2011
8.30pm
Black Box, Goodman Arts Centre
90 Goodman Road

When you start to play off the top of your head, that's when the truth is really known about people. - Steve Howe

A 6-part series of spontaneous, inventive musical collaboration between musicians from diverse musical backgrounds and genres. Venturing into unfamiliar artistic terrains, Playfreely engages various groups in a collaborative exchange to improvise without any boundaries, to release the shapes that are latent in that unique moment of time... to play freely.

Artists:

Atwell Jansen (Heritage) – violin

Ustad Sharafat Khan – sitar

Wil Kolen (Blindspot, Brin) – guitar

Rex Lee – theremin

Aya Sekine – keyboards, moog and shruti box

Jase Sng (Kimchi and the Laksas) – electric bass and upright bass

Cheryl Ong (A Bigger Bang. The Percussion Assembly) – traditional Chinese percussion

Entry by donation (minimum $10)

Presented by The Observatory in partnership with Ujikaji Records.

Contact The Observatory at info@theobservatory.com.sg for more info.

[event] Playfreely II // 29th April 2011 @ Black Box, Goodman Arts Centre

PLAYFREELY II

29 April 2011
8.30pm-11pm

Black Box, Goodman Arts Centre
90 Goodman Road, Singapore 439053

Albert Einstein looked upon improvisation as an emotional and intellectual necessity. (Conversations with Einstein, published 1921).

Artisis:

Analog Girl – electronics

Brian O’Reilly – contrabass

Bani Haykal (B-Quartet) – guitar, woodwinds

Fuzz Lee (Life Without Dreams) – guitar

Dr Samuel Wong (The Teng Company) – pipa

Jagjit Singh (Rhythms Aesthetic Society) – tabla

2nd installment of a 6 part series of spontaneous, inventive musical collaboration between musicians from diverse musical backgrounds and genres. Venturing into unfamiliar artistic terrains, Playfreely engages various groups in a collaborative exchange to improvise without any boundaries, to release the shapes that are latent in that unique moment of time... to play freely.

Presented by The Observatory

in partnership with Ujikaji Records

Entry by donation ($10 minimum).

Contact The Observatory at info@theobservatory.com.sg for more info.

[event] Playfreely I // 15th April 2011 @ Black Box, Goodman Arts Centre

PLAYFREELY I

15 April 2011
8.30-11.30pm

Black Box, Goodman Arts Centre
90 Goodman Road, Singapore 439053

Albert Einstein looked upon improvisation as an emotional and intellectual necessity. (Conversations with Einstein, published 1921)

Artists:

Darren Moore – drums

Andy Yang – the stick

Reggie Perera – didgeridoo

Misha’al (The Psalms) – bass

Isyraf (The Psalms) – drums

Khairil (The Psalms) – guitar

Az (Stellarium) – guitar

Phid (Stellarium) – guitar

Brennan de Souza (Ara Ophidia) – guitar

Ustad Sharafat Khan – sitar

Special guests:

MoHa! (Norway)

Horacio Pollard (UK)

A 6 part series of spontaneous, inventive musical collaboration between musicians from diverse musical backgrounds and genres. Venturing into unfamiliar artistic terrains, Playfreely engages various groups in a collaborative exchange to improvise without any boundaries, to release the shapes that are latent in that unique moment of time... to play freely.

Presented by The Observatory,

in partnership with Ujikaji Records

Contact The Observatory at info@theobservatory.com.sg for more info.