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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Microtones\, Birdsongs\, & J Dilla: David Fiuczynki
 's Premieres Guggenheim Fellowship Composition \nEvent Url: http://www.art
 sboston.org/event/detail/441654830/Microtones_Birdsongs_J_Dilla_David_Fiuc
 zynkis_Premieres_Guggenheim_Fellowship_Composition_\nEvent Date Begin: 201
 2-12-07\nEvent Date End: 2012-12-07\n\n Berklee professor David Fiuczynski
  will premiere his ambitious new work\, 'Flam! Pan-Asian MicroJam for J Di
 lla and Olivier Messiaen\,' on December 7. The piece\, which took nearly t
 wo years to write\, is the result of a Guggenheim Fellowship the guitarist
  received in 2011. It breaks new ground by incorporating microtonal birdso
 ng-based melodies\, J Dilla-inspired hip-hop beats\, Japanese court music\
 , Chinese folk songs\, Indian alaps\, and Turkish invocations. At the conc
 ert\, audience members will see various birds on a video screen and hear t
 heir birdcalls\, then listen as those sounds are interwoven into the music
 .\n'Olivier Messiaen\, a French composer and ornithologist who used birdso
 ngs in his music\, was a major influence\,' says Fiuczynski. 'Messiaen's b
 irdsongs\, Dilla's beats\, and Eastern music share a lot of the same rhyth
 mic elements. I thought this would be a very unusual way to combine all of
  these styles that I love.'\nThe Guggenheim Fellowship is a $40\,000 grant
  awarded to an artist in mid-career undertaking an important project. Fiuc
 zynski's composition\, which he plans to record next year with Berklee stu
 dents and faculty\, is based on his 'Planet MicroJam' concept\, a new musi
 cal language combining microtones (notes between the notes of the Western 
 scale)\, jazz harmonies\, and complex rhythms. Fiuczynski uses a double-ne
 ck fretless/fretted guitar\, quarter tone guitar\, and whammy bar to maste
 r a vocabulary of notes 'between the cracks.'\nThe concert takes place on 
 Friday\, December 7\, at 8:15 p.m. at the Berklee Performance Center (BPC)
 \, 136 Massachusetts Avenue\, Boston. Tickets are reserved seating\, $8 (a
 dvance) and $12 (day of show). Purchase tickets at berkleebpc.com\, by cal
 ling 617-747-2261\, or visit the BPC Box Office. The venue is wheelchair-a
 ccessible.\nDavid Fiuczynski's music is often described as unclassifiable\
 , challenging\, and invigorating. In 1994\, he collaborated with John Mede
 ski on the album Lunar Crush\, a tribute to the Tony Williams Lifetime\, w
 hich was chosen by Guitar Player as a Disc of Destiny. His recent music me
 lds traditional melodic elements from the Middle East\, Asia\, India\, and
  Eastern Europe\, with rock\, funk\, electronica\, and other styles. His l
 atest album\, Planet MicroJam\, was released earlier this summer on RareNo
 ise Records. Fiuczynski leads the underground cult band Screaming Headless
  Torsos and has worked with Jack DeJohnette\, Stewart Copeland\, Meshell N
 degeocello\, Vernon Reid\, John Zorn\, and many more.
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SUMMARY:Microtones\, Birdsongs\, & J Dilla: David Fiuczynki's Premieres Gug
 genheim Fellowship Composition
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