Dhruba Ghosh
Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles
DJ Olive " Sarangî strings sound system " FRENCH CREATION
Dhruba Ghosh (sarangî)
Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles de Belgique (cords)
Jean-Paul Dessy (composition & direction)
DJ Olive (électronic)
Friday November 24, 2006 l 20h30 MC2 : Grenoble – Salle de Création
Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles : Jean-Paul Dessy (composition & direction), David Nunez, Antoine Maisonhaute, Erik Sluys, Nicolas Marciano, Claire Lechien (Violins), Dominica Eyckmans, Pierre Heneaux (Violas), Jean-Paul Dessy, Jean-Pol Zanutel (Violoncellos), François Haag (Double bass)
In India, Dhruba Ghosh is acknowledged as one of the greatest masters of Sarangi. (The Sarangi is a string instrument whose equivalent in Western music is the cello). As the holder of a tradition that he both transmits and keeps, Dhruba Ghosh is also open to contemporary trends in Western music. He is, like Ravi Shankar – whose collaborations with Philip Glass and Michael Nyman are true classics - one of the rare Indian masters capable of moving between the modern Western world and timeless India.
Sarangi Strings Sound System is a new genre of orchestra in which Sarangis, violons and cellos become one in a sort of trans-cultural consort, the symbiosis of the art of raga and minimalist writing. Dhruba Ghosh, Jean-Paul Dessy and the musicians of Belgium’s Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles create a mutant, “metaphonic” musical world that is both very Indian and extremely modern.
Friday, november 24th - 12h30 - La Saulaie : Meet / debate with Patrick Revol (department musicology of the University Pierre Mendès France) and Daniel Caux (journalist, essay writer, man of radio): "Traditional sources and electronic evolutions of the movement minimalist" Concert recorded by France Music.
Production : Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles / Bozar (Bruxelles). Welcome 38e Rugissants. With the support of the ONDA and MC2 : Grenoble
