Okuden Music
| Okuden Music | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Jazz, Improvised Music, experimental music |
| Location(s) | Torun, Poland |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Founded by | Mat Walerian |
| Website | Festival Website |
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Okuden Music: sound to the deepest is a concert series presenting the mainstream of modern jazz and improvised avant-garde music heritage,[1] held in Torun, Poland from 2011, founded and curated by avant-garde jazz musician Mat Walerian.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
About
It usually consists of one or two performances, spread out over a number of days. Okuden Music was inspired by the New York City based Vision Festival, organized by not-for-profit Arts for Art organization founded by Patricia Nicholson Parker. The first edition of the Okuden Music concert series took place on 1 February 2011. In addition to the founder/art director, staff consists of a large number of volunteers coming from various environments - painters, sculptors, musicians, sport athletes, businessmen and visual artists among others. Through several editions, Okuden Music has taken place in several venues, however its main venue appeared to be the Boulevard of Culture - concert hall located in Hotel Bulwar, Torun.[8]
Music performers
Artists who have performed at the Okuden Music concert series represent various environments - European jazz and improvised music, modern classical and world music, but also featuring significant representatives of the American jazz scene, including such notable names, like Matthew Shipp, Michael Bisio or Whit Dickey representing the Lower East Side music community of New York, as well as Chicagoan drummer and percussion master Hamid Drake.[9]
Reception
Okuden Music Concert Series got an extensive review in ""Polish Jazz Recordings and Beyond" - a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of Polish jazz recordings, written by a world-renowned, prominent theoretical physicist Maciej Lewenstein.[10]
Recordings
"Live at Okuden" - an album by avant-garde jazz duet "The Uppercut: Matthew Shipp Mat Walerian duo" featuring pianist Matthew Shipp and alto saxophonist Mat Walerian, recorded live in 2012 at the Okuden Music concert series and released in 2015 on the New York City, Brooklyn based avant-garde record label ESP-Disk'.[11]
Etymology of the name
OKU DEN - "deepest transmission"; "hidden teachings"; "inner-transmission". Oku Den is drawn from ancient Japanese and refers to the hidden mystery in things, the secret essence uncovered and revealed, the innate harmony underlying all things. Okuden can indicate a rank in a traditional Japanese art form and/or the actual transmission of secret principles relating to a given art.[12]
Music - an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture.
Sound - mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.
AVANT-JAZZ - This is art that exhibits a disciplined disregard for traditional boundaries. While avant-jazz is an outgrowth of African American musical forms, e.g. blues and jazz, it has made a break from the strict adherence to traditional forms. It draws freely from any musical tradition in creating structures and frameworks for improvisation. It is also free to disregard musical conventions, as the artist sees fit. For example, the avant-jazz musician has the creative freedom to incorporate music of Asian or African cultures, or may do away with conventional song forms or rhythmic structures. Some avant-jazz artists focus on the blues in their work, while others refer to 20th century atonalism. But these tendencies are not true of all of their music. That is their freedom. It is not a freedom from melody or composition or rhythm. It is the freedom to choose any musical tradition or vocabulary as part of their palette.[13]
See also
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References
- ↑ Okuden Music concert series official website http://www.okudenmusic.com/about.php
- ↑ Mat Walerian biography http://www.matwalerian.com/bio.php
- ↑ Culture Catch http://culturecatch.com/music/shipp-walerian
- ↑ Gapplegate Music Review http://gapplegatemusicreview.blogspot.com/2015/05/matthew-shipp-and-mat-walerian-duo.html
- ↑ All About Jazz http://www.allaboutjazz.com/live-at-okuden-matthew-shipp-and-mat-walerian-duo-the-uppercut-esp-disk-review-by-mark-corroto.php
- ↑ Something Else Reviews http://somethingelsereviews.com/2015/04/28/the-uppercut-matthew-shipp-mat-walerian-duo-live-at-okuden-2015/
- ↑ Maciej Lewenstein "Polish Jazz Recordings and Beyond", ISBN 9788380117440, page 434
- ↑ Boulevard of Culture event archive http://www.hotelbulwar.pl/aktualnosci/archiwum/28/okuden-music-w-bulwarze.html
- ↑ Okuden Music event archive http://www.okudenmusic.com/events.php
- ↑ Maciej Lewenstein "Polish Jazz Recordings and Beyond", ISBN 9788380117440
- ↑ ESP-Disk' record label catalogue http://espdisk.com/official/catalog/5007.html
- ↑ Okuden Music concert series official website http://www.okudenmusic.com/about.php
- ↑ Okuden Music concert series official website http://www.okudenmusic.com/about.php
External links
- Okuden Music Concert Series official website
- ESP-Disk' record label official website Archived 2016-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
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