Mindful Spiraling http://www.robertedgar.com Falling Over Our Selves Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:28:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Cuckoo Song (ragaphonia, 2005) http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/24/the-cuckoo-song-ragaphonia-2005/ http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/24/the-cuckoo-song-ragaphonia-2005/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:45:38 +0000 rbedgar http://www.robertedgar.com/543217/?p=514 ragaphonia has been composing, recording and performing together since 2001

As of December 2007, Ragaphonia is:

Purna Prasad (mridangam, electronic percussion)

Shuba Gunapu (vocal, veena)

Robert Edgar (vocal, guitar)

Roger Winkelman (bass)

A 2006 album was released under Ragamala, through cdbaby

]]> http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/24/the-cuckoo-song-ragaphonia-2005/feed/ 0 The Duchamp Examinations: #10 2008 http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/24/the-duchamp-examinations-10-2008/ http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/24/the-duchamp-examinations-10-2008/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:41:37 +0000 rbedgar http://www.robertedgar.com/543217/?p=509 Robert’s “Duchamp Examination” is a demonstration of how a composer can dissect, examine and re-produce a precomposed (but not prerecorded) piece through a combination of analog and digital mastication and redigestion, in real-time solo performance before an audience. Duchamp might have said “Bob chews his cud”. “The Duchamp Prelude” is a kind of electronic alapana, in which Robert explores the chordal sequence of the source piece “If Duchamp Drew Beautifully” through an overdriven TM-2 bandpass filter.

For “The Duchamp Examination” Robert plays and sings the source piece into the Boomerang section by section, further using the Boomerang as an insert editor to advance the composition by displacing the recorded segments with live musical phrases and lyric samples, not so much triggered as expressed and modulated in real time using the combination of MIDI guitar, synthesizer control pedals, and the VSampler 3 software.

]]> http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/24/the-duchamp-examinations-10-2008/feed/ 0 DocumenTree: Sim Opps Installed at Stanford: Oct 20 2011 http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/documentree-sim-opps-installed-at-stanford-oct-20-2011/ http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/documentree-sim-opps-installed-at-stanford-oct-20-2011/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:06:27 +0000 rbedgar http://www.robertedgar.com/543217/?p=421 http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/documentree-sim-opps-installed-at-stanford-oct-20-2011/feed/ 0 Simultaneous Opposites #64 Looking Ahead While Looking Back: Simultaneous Opposites http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-64-looking-ahead-while-looking-back-simultaneous-opposites/ http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-64-looking-ahead-while-looking-back-simultaneous-opposites/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:02:09 +0000 rbedgar http://www.robertedgar.com/543217/?p=417 http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-64-looking-ahead-while-looking-back-simultaneous-opposites/feed/ 0 Simultaneous Opposites #63 Auto Viewing http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-63-auto-viewing/ http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-63-auto-viewing/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:41 +0000 rbedgar http://www.robertedgar.com/543217/?p=415 http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-63-auto-viewing/feed/ 0 Simultaneous Opposites #62 Flower Beds http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-62-flower-beds/ http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-62-flower-beds/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:59:54 +0000 rbedgar http://www.robertedgar.com/543217/?p=413 http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-62-flower-beds/feed/ 0 Simultaneous Opposites #61 Welcome Matting http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-61-welcome-matting/ http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-61-welcome-matting/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:59:18 +0000 rbedgar http://www.robertedgar.com/543217/?p=411 http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-61-welcome-matting/feed/ 0 Simultaneous Opposites #60 Breathing for Metaphors http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-60-breathing-for-metaphors/ http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-60-breathing-for-metaphors/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:58:44 +0000 rbedgar http://www.robertedgar.com/543217/?p=409 http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-60-breathing-for-metaphors/feed/ 0 Simultaneous Opposites #59 Dirty Bubbles http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-59-dirty-bubbles/ http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-59-dirty-bubbles/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:57:30 +0000 rbedgar http://www.robertedgar.com/543217/?p=407 http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-59-dirty-bubbles/feed/ 0 Simultaneous Opposites #58 Card Fall http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-58-card-fall/ http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-58-card-fall/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:56:41 +0000 rbedgar http://www.robertedgar.com/543217/?p=405 http://www.robertedgar.com/2011/11/20/simultaneous-opposites-58-card-fall/feed/ 0