CURATION
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from this page:
by Augmented Matrix
Network Node
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Name:
Liron Meyuhas
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City/Place:
Tel Aviv
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Country:
Israel
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Hometown:
Jerusalem
Life
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Bio:
Liron was born in 1985 in Jerusalem. As a child she studied guitar and piano, and after encountering Egyptian music and rhythm on vacations in the Sinai desert, she started taking private lessons for darbuka and djembe. At twenty she began pursuing Eastern music studies in Jerusalem, where she delved into the rich tradition of ancient Jewish hymns, and broadened her repertoire with the frame drum, the Riq, and other percussion instruments.
In 2007 Liron travelled to Europe for a year to volunteer in agricultural projects, where she discovered old traditions of Flamenco singing (southern Spain), and Tarantella music in southern Italy. She worked on a farm, learning different agricultural skills such as cheesemaking, shepherding, picking. During this time she first picked up the Swiss Hang drum. In this atmosphere of nature and seclusion, inspiration was abundant and Liron wrote, sang and performed, meeting local people, drifters and musicians on the nomadic circuit. These experiences were an important stepping stone in the evolution of Liron’s global musical identity.
The year 2008 saw Liron travelling to West Africa (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Conakry) for humanitarian projects with the Spanish NGO Pasos Positivos. In Guinea Conakry she spent two months studying traditional West African drumming and dance, she played weddings and other traditional ceremonies with a groupe of Guinean musicians.
Liron applied and got accepted to Siena Jazz Academy in Italy, specializing in world percussion with an emphasis on Jazz. She played ensembles and studied piano and trumpet. During her studies she discovered Afro Jazz and played with musicians from Griotte Dembele’, a family of musicians from Ivory Coast. As well in Italy she worked for a musical circus troupe (Cantiere Ikrea), performing Italy, Russia and Poland. Years of successive travelling and living in different location were continually shaping Liron’s identity as a nomad.
Liron returned to Israel where she received a scholarship for Outstanding Musician from the ministry of immigration, and began performing with her own music. Liron has participated in exciting collaborations with dance groups such as Bat Sheva , acclaimed Israeli musician Kutiman’s project “Through Tel Aviv”, Cafe GIbraltar , Etti Ankri, Maurice Almadiuni and others. As well, Liron has been active in peace and coexistence projects, performing as a duo with Palestinian female Oud player Helen Sabila from Bethlehem. As well, Liron has hosted workshops for Arab and Jewish children and participated in the Women Wage Peace marches ( 2016-2018).
In 2013 Liron toured the Czech Republic, taking part in a project called ‘’Gathering of Drummers”, as the only female performer. As well she represented Israel in “Women in Jazz” in Rome. In 2014 she launched “La Gitana” project, performing as trio all over Israel. In she 2016 toured Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, garnering a warm reception from the East European crowd. She performed solo in Italy - Rome and Florence, established female percussion trio “Malaika Trio” (Angel Trio in Swahili) and performed all over Israel and Switzerland, recording an album in 2016. Over the last three years she played and sang in Portugal, Spain,Italy, France and Croatia with the international project “Sois 7 Luas”, A Portuguese initiative uniting musicians from around the Mediterranean.
Liron recorded her first full length LP “La Gitana” in 2018. The album was produced by Yael Deckelbaum and includes influences from Jewish texts, African rhythm, Italian folklore and many more. The album was supported by a successful crowdfunding campaign and was followed by a tour of Italy and currently Israel. As well, over the last two years Liron has collaborated and recorded for Spanish guitar maestro Estas Tonne (for his “Mother of Souls” album) and celebrated Ecuadorian electronic artist Nicola Cruz.
In 2017 Liron finished her B.ed musical education studies in Tel Aviv university, with the specialist with disable people.
From 2018 till now Liron is touring Israel & Europe with her project as solo artist or trio.
In the summer of 2019 Liron toured Europe, the USA & Canada with the American singer Peia, as her percussionist.
Liron is the first Israeli percussionist to be endorsed by Meinl Percussion in Germany.
My Instruction
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Lessons/Workshops:
Oriental Beats:
A Percussion Workshop by Liron Meyuhas
Goals:
Introducing percussion techniques from North Africa, the Middle East and Turkey. Participants will become acquainted with different percussion instruments from the Mediterranean basin.
Method:
Introduction to different instruments, technical practice, percussion ensemble
Equipment Requirements:
Each participant brings his own drum. Recommended drums: Darbuka / Djembe / Frame drum
Instruments brought by Liron:
Hang drum, kalabash, Riq.
Clips (more may be added)
The Integrated Global Creative Economy
Wolfram Mathematics
From Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the unprecedented integration of the creative economy. Creators planet-wide positioned within reach of each other and the entire world by means of technology + small-world theory (see Wolfram above). Bahia was final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other place on earth throughout all of human history. It was refuge for Sephardim fleeing the Inquisition. It is Indigenous both apart and subsumed into a sociocultural matrix which is all of these: a small-world matrix. Neural structures for human memory are small-world. This technological matrix is small-world...
In small worlds great things are possible.
Alicia Svigals
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"I'm truly thankful ... Sohlangana ngokuzayo :)"
—Nduduzo Makhathini (JOHANNESBURG): piano, Blue Note recording artist
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"Very nice! Thank you for this. Warmest regards and wishing much success for the project! Matt"
—Son of Jimmy Garrison (bass for John Coltrane, Bill Evans...); plays with Herbie Hancock and other greats...
Dear friends & colleagues,
Having arrived in Salvador 13 years earlier, I opened a record shop in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for Bahian musicians, many of them magisterial but unknown.
David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR found us (above), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Bahians and other Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix (people who have passed are not removed), then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
Years ago in NYC I "rescued" unpaid royalties (performance & mechanical) for artists/composers including Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (for his rights in Bob Marley compositions; Clement was Bob's first producer), Led Zeppelin, Ray Barretto, Philip Glass and many others. Aretha called me out of the blue vis-à-vis money owed by Atlantic Records. Allen Klein (managed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles) called about money due the estate of Sam Cooke. Jerry Ragovoy (Time Is On My Side, Piece of My Heart) called just to see if he had any unpaid money floating around out there (the royalty world was a shark-filled jungle, to mangle metaphors, and I doubt it's changed).
But the pertinent client (and friend) in the present context is Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs. Earl went from doo-wopping on Harlem streetcorners to chart-topping success to working as a custodian at PS 87 elementary school on the west side of Manhattan. Through all of this he never lost what made him great.
Greatness and fame are too often conflated. The former should be accessible independently of the latter.
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Recent access to this matrix and Bahia are from these places (a single marker can denote multiple accesses).
Across the creative universe... For another list, reload page.
This list is random, and incomplete. Reload the page for another list.
For a complete list of everybody inside, tap TOTAL below:
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Nduduzo Makhathini
Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Matt Garrison
RÁDIO MATRIX