Sukato on YouTube
Come see Sukato's new page on YouTube, featuring four videos.
See three performances at Art Land Bar in Brooklyn:
May 28, 2008 -- voice and electronics (video by Hank) (video link)
May 8, 2008 -- voice and plectrum violin (video by Diego Rooks) (video link)
September 27, 2007 -- voice and electronics (video by Hank) (video link)
...and as a bonus, a video appearance in the new Moby video, "I Love To Move In Here." Sukato is the "bass player" in "the band"....on stage with Grandmaster Caz, old-school rapper and co-writer of the classic "Rappers Delight"! (video link, high-definition on Vimeo)
New MP3s at MySpace.com
Check out three MP3s below or at Sukato's new MySpace page!
They are:
Lullaby for the Children of Israel and Palestine -- NEW (MP3 podcast)
Tasnif -- NEW (MP3 podcast)
Ominous B-flat drone, excerpt
(the complete version you can find on this page below)
The Local Epiphany Showcase
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Sukato performed at The Local Epiphany Showcase, a concert organized by Christina Mason, on March 15, 2005. Here are three duets with Ed Bernstein playing djembe and cymbal. (Ed is the founder of Share New York and did the recording here.) Sukato is singing and playing plectrum violin. Duet #1, very fast
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Duet #2, medium tempo, stately
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Duet #3, very fast
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Ominous B-flat drone
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Sukato's new composition on a B-flat drone was performed at The Cave in LIC on September 7, 14, 21, and 28, October 12, 19, and 27, November 2 and 24, and December 3, 2004, January 4 and 11, and February 1 and 15, and numerous times thereafter, in various versions, each time different than the performance before. On the September 14 performance, Sukato sang and played plectrum-violin, accompanied by a prerecorded background. Low, sumptuous electronic drones were created by Kala Pierson, over which Sukato multitracked and mixed additional string parts. New Composition on a low, ominous B-flat drone (September 14, 2004 performance)
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Improvisation on a 9-tone scale
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Here is a previously unreleased work for solo plectrum-violin, recorded in 2003. It is a performance on a scale with the octave divided up rather evenly into nine tones. As with much of Sukato's music, it's somewhere between improvisation and fixed composition. Improvisation on a 9-tone scale
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Performances of "NOT"
Below are two performances/versions of NOT, a solo dance work choreographed and danced by Chris Ferris. One includes oboe (Eliza Slavet) while the other doesn't. The music and dance are very much intertwined and interdependent. While Chris, Eliza and I were working through the piece, we decided to think of the music as a trio (all three of us) rather than a duo (Eliza and me). There were places of silence where Chris could "breathe" and let the sounds of her movement -- the aggressive, jarring physical movement (i.e., stomping) -- become the music. (Don't worry, you'll hear it in the audio!)
The work, both dance and music, thus has a claustrophobic feel to it and a lot of angst.
Sukato on ukelele and voice
May 22, 2004 at Debaun Center, Hoboken
Sukato with Eliza Slavet playing on her amazing multiphonic oboe
May 9, 2004 at One Arm
Red, Brooklyn
And as a bonus....
Remix of "NOT" (fun!)
