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Music Through Unconventional Means: Beatboxing meets the art of Spoken Word, October 31 2010

shlomo — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:44:56 +0000

Music Through Unconventional Means: Beatboxing meets the art of Spoken Word
SHLOMO, BELLATRIX, CHARLIE DARK, POLAR BEAR AND DIZRAELI & THE SMALL GODS
October 31 2010, 7.30pm,
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
MORE INFO AND TICKETS.

To celebrate my entering my 4th year (i know!) as Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre, we’ve organised a special concert as part of my ongoing collaborative series Music Through Unconventional Means. Vocal mastery will meet verbal dexterity as myself and female beatbox world champion BELLATRIX will cross our badmouth beatboxing with the likes of the incredible wordsmiths CHARLIE DARK, POLAR BEAR and DIZRAELI with his full band THE SMALL GODS.

who would you like to see collaborate?

shlomo — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:29:44 +0000

I’m planning to bring back my collaborative concert series Music Through Unconventional Means – who would you like to see collaborate?

Live tracks on Soundcloud

shlomo — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:39:18 +0000

I uploaded a few live tracks taken from my Southbank concert series, some gems in there dating back to 2007! Enjoy

Shlomo’s Glasto diary 09 – Part 4 – JARVIS COCKER

shlomo — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:47:14 +0000

Final part of Shlomo’s Glastonbury diary featuring Jarvis Cocker singing Fat Children with Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dm7RvxTp88

Shlomo’s Glasto diary 09 – Part 4 – MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE vs BELLATRIX beatbox battle

shlomo — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:53:39 +0000

Part four of Shlomo’s Glastonbury diary featuring BBC Radio 4′s MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE challenging BELLATRIX (World Female Beatbox Champion 2009) to a battle of the beats. Ouch.

Part five is out next week!

Watch it HERE.

Shlomo’s Glasto Diary ’09 – part 3 – IMOGEN HEAP becomes honorary VOCAL ORCHESTRA member

shlomo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:41:57 +0000

Part three of Shlomo’s Glastonbury diary featuring an improvised collaboration between IMOGEN HEAP and SHLOMO AND THE VOCAL ORCHESTRA!

Part four is out next week!

Video by http://www.asdescribed.net/

WATCH IT HERE

Shlomo’s Glasto Diary ’09 – part 2 – DJ YODA vs VOCAL ORCHESTRA

shlomo — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:59:52 +0000

Part two of Shlomo’s Glastonbury diary featuring a live battle between DJ YODA and SHLOMO AND THE VOCAL ORCHESTRA!

Part three is out next week!

Video by http://www.asdescribed.net/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWnl1VCFAmI

Shlomo’s Glasto Diary ’09 – part 1 – the Vocal Orchestra

shlomo — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:30:55 +0000

Part one of Shlomo’s Glastonbury diary featuring his beatbox choir THE VOCAL ORCHESTRA, plus JARVIS COCKER, IMOGEN HEAP, DJ YODA and MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE.

Part two is out next week!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNjL6sXwibE

Video by http://www.asdescribed.net/

New commission: Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra

shlomo — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:18:56 +0000

I’m so excited to announce that Southbank Centre have commissioned Anna Meredith and myself to write a new classical work entitled Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra.

Anna Meredith (who you might have seen recently on TV teaching Goldie how to write orchestral music) is one of the UK’s hottest up and coming composers – she has written two BBC Proms and last year was commissioned for the Last Night of the Proms.

Our new piece will be performed on February 19th and 20th 2010 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with a specially created 20-piece orchestra, plus the Vocal Orchestra (my 8-piece beatbox choir) embedded within the ensemble.

This will be a challenging modern classical work recognising the human voicebox as a musical instrument in its own right, and also a chance to create the first full notation for beatboxers.

I’ll be blogging and tweeting throughout the whole process, and all the latest info, photo, video, blog posts and links to buy tickets can be found on the Concerto’s project page.

dreamland – live film soundtrack by shlomo, amiina and valgeir sigurdsson

shlomo — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:23:12 +0000

This song is a live soundtrack to footage from the film Dreamland which documents the destruction of beautiful landscapes in Iceland to make way for Europe’s largest aluminium smelter.

All the landscapes you see in the film have now been destroyed.

Live at the QEH, London, May 2009. Performers: Shlomo, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Amiina, Sigga Sunna. Video by Gemma Riggs @ Rarerabbit.

http://www.vimeo.com/5955354

You can also watch the trailer for the Dreamland film here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvH8tl4y0KE