Hesterian Musicism
Hesterian Musicism is the creative process through which Karlton Hester's compositional and performance style merge to give rise to aesthetic environments where other musicians, kinetic and visual artists, and poets can meet to produce new art forms through imaginative effort. Its philosophical basis involves an intrinsic freedom of expression, focused and disciplined spontaneity, and a structural basis that explores the creative components of diverse sources from the whole earth.
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MUSIC, OCT 3: Karlton Hester - Fusion Soul at Old First Concerts, San Francisco, California, USA & Online
https://www.artsearth.org/events/karlton-hester-fusion-soul/
Karlton Hester’s expressive works engage in themes of creative freedom, Pythagorean theorems, string theory, the legacies and poly-mathematical work of trumpeter Donald Byrd, as well as an exploration of the philosophical/creative thought of the legendary progenitor of the Afrofuturist perspective, Sun Ra. Alongside these, works by Hwayoung Shon and Byungki Hwang drawing from traditional Korean music start a dialog with Hester’s work that leads to the transcontinental collaboration of Miseon Jeong’s Fusion Soul, which dramatizes the fusion of jazz and traditional Korean music into one soul.
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It was a pleasure meeting you briefly at Pono Hawaiian Grill. I look forward to hearing you play sometime soon.
PLEASE FORWARD:
Hello Womyn Drummers! I'm so looking forward to taking women home to our first annual Jamaica DrumMa Spa Retreat Jan 2-9, 2016. Relax, rest, and bathe in ocean, drum-song-dance with Afia Walking Tree, Carolyn Brandy and Ouida Lewis. Special rates for Womyn of color and Jamaican systars. Join us & spread the word. Details here:
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A life reawakened.
by Vivian Wagner, Ph.D.
Making Things Up: The Value of Improvising
Improvising is key to both art and life.
Published on May 24, 2010 by Vivian Wagner, Ph.D. in Melody Maker
I grew up doing what I was supposed to do, when I was supposed to do it, following a largely unconscious script about what it meant to live one's life. Get an education, get a career, get married, have kids, stay married. As a violinist, I played in orchestras, sticking with the music on the page, not standing out. But getting a divorce in my early 40s made me rethink everything I had thought about both music and my life more broadly. At the same time, luckily, I had discovered fiddling, and as I began to play in jam sessions, my fellow jammers would say, let's play this tune, and it's in the key of G. And that's all I'd get. I'd listen for the melody at first, trying to pick it up, and then when it came time for a solo I'd repeat the melody, and then work on doing something more with it, improvising on it, changing it up. And I realized that this kind improvising could be a valuable new way of thinking about my life, as well.
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