{"id":67,"date":"2011-05-26T18:27:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T18:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/?p=67"},"modified":"2013-03-11T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T12:26:04","slug":"live-john-kameel-farah-the-atonal-maqam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Live: John Kameel Farah &#8211; The Atonal Maqam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian pianist and electronic composer John Kameel Farah will perform a mixture of 16th century keyboard pieces, mixed with his dynamic and surrealistic compositions for piano and electronics, interspersed with solo piano improvisations set in a style he calls &#8220;The Atonal Maqam&#8221; in which he slowly unearths chordal structures and harmonies, like an archaeologist gently dusting off some relic of another age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/farah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/farah.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"farah\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/farah.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/farah-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Behind a stage set up that can include piano, Baroque harpsichords, synthesizers, and computers, John Kameel Farah cuts an impressive and unforgettable figure in solo performance. Farah works in a wide open creative field through which he can combine, juxtapose, and transform the musics that interest him most: Early and Baroque keyboard music, ambient minimalism, Middle-Eastern music, Electronic Dance Music, and electroacoustics.<\/p>\n<p>In performance, Farah ranges all over his instruments while setting up textures and countertextures, moving deftly from acoustic to electronic episodes, and testing and deploying his materials with a mixture of scientific care and wild abandon. Improvisation is a key working method, both at his various keyboards and in the execution of electronic beats and processes that are equally at the core of his approach.<\/p>\n<p>Frenetic and contemplative in turn, Farah\u2019s music is underpinned by a deep emotional and spiritual reservoir which, when framed through his exceptional musicality and virtuosic instrumental command, packs his highly original solo music with considerable and undeniable clout.<br \/>\n&#8211; Guelph Jazz Festival, Canada<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnfarah.com\">www.johnfarah.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/jkfarah\">www.myspace.com\/jkfarah<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian pianist and electronic composer John Kameel Farah will perform a mixture of 16th century keyboard pieces, mixed with his dynamic and surrealistic compositions for piano and electronics, interspersed with solo piano improvisations set in a style he calls &#8220;The Atonal Maqam&#8221; in which he slowly unearths chordal structures and harmonies, like an archaeologist gently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mica-moca-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micamoca.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}