FOR PURCHASE! The highest quality prints of Mehta’s music-artwork based on his graphical music notation framework and his narrative paintings continue to be sold in our online shop with new additions underway! Please see the shop on this site for details.Personal appointments to visit our Juhu, Mumbai Gallery where the entire collection of original works as well as the prints are currently being exhibited can be made by contacting ORKA-M’S co-founder Barbara Friederichsen-Mehta,orka.muse@gmail.com
South African Broadcasting Corporation showed a program entitled D’Fusion on TV channel SABC 3 on April 20, 2008 featuring innovative trumpeter, composer, engineer Rajesh Mehta and his music-artwork.
Mehta has been invited to teach for October 14-24, 2008 by Architect/ Stage Designer Serge von Arx (who has been working regularly with Theatre-Director Robert Wilson) and who heads the Scenography department at the Norwegian Theatre Academy in Fredrikstad.
Members of Mehta’s music-architecture project “sounding buildings” team ( including vocal director and co-founder of orka-m Barbara Friederichsen-Mehta and Cellist Rohan de Saram who was very close to Xenakis and is one of the great interpreters of Xenakis’ compositions )have been invited to the Période Musicale 2008, co-organized by the CCMIX (Centre création musicale from the late contemporary music composer Iannis Xenakis) and the Centre Culturel de Rencontre du Couvent de La Tourette (made by Architect Le Corbusier) This year’s Période Musicale will conclude with an international symposium/debate on the theme «Music – Architecture». The symposium/debate will take place between November 5 – 7, 2008 and will conclude with a musical weekend running from the evening of November 7 through the afternoon of November 9, 2008.
Rajesh Mehta’s music-artwork (Songlines’ Jewels) and his essay on Innovative Musical Notation will now be released late August 2008 in an Anthology of 21st Century Musical Notation entitled Notations 21 (hard cover, Mark Batty Publishers/Thames and Hudson) by Theresa Sauer and can be pre-ordered on www.amazon.com. Trio ORKA-M featuring Cellist Rohan de Saram, South indian percussionist Jayachandra Rao and Mehta on Hybrid and Slide Trumpets will play in a book release concert series on Oct. 4, 2008 at the Chelsea Art Museum in NYC.
Berlin-based American writer Cecile Rossant has just released an exciting new novel “Tokyo Bay Traffic” on RedHen press. Mehta and Rossant were sounding boards for each other’s work during Mehta’s tenure in Berlin between 1999-2005. Cecile helped shape the concept of Mehta’s music-architecture project “sounding buildings” while Mehta critically read Tokyo Bay Traffic as it developed into a novel.
Dear Friends, ORKA-M: International Institute of Innovative Music, Mumbai’s latest news:
SEE + HEAR Videos of live concerts and productions-many of which are based on the music-artwork can be seen on the “orkamvideo” channel on youtube.com.
FILM AND MEDIA ABOUT ORKA-M
The internetTV report on ORKA-M, Mumbai and Rajesh Mehta continues to be shown via a permanent link on the German News Portal Spiegel Online.
Dutch Filmmakers Ruben Taneja and Jan Willem Peters have just released a film of conversations with Rajesh Mehta entitled “Forces of Nature”. Watch the film here in our video section, or follow this link to watch it on their website in higher resolution.
CHOREOGRAPHY + GRAPHICAL MUSIC NOTATION Belgian dancer/choreographer Filip van Huffel will work virtually from London/Antwerp with Rajesh Mehta on his graphical notation framework which he will interpret choreographically. Please see blog updates on Filip’s dance company Retina Dance’s website.
An early Monsoon has arrived and the rains are a relief. Greetings from a very wet Mumbai! your ORKA-M Team, for further queries please contact orka.muse@gmail.com
