Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi radio interview by Doc George Manning at WEAA 88.9 FM (Baltimore), in his Monday evening program “In the Tradition.”
Date: Monday, July 28, 2014.
Time: around 8:20pm.
Listen here: http://www.weaa.org/listennowpodcast
Sohrab will talk about the upcoming Baltimore/DC tour and his music activism (including his ENOUGH IS ENOUGH NY campaign).
This track is called “Sohrab’s Shushtari,” composed by Sohrab and recorded on his iPhone at David Shiveley‘s studio in Williamsburg, November 8, 2013. Sohrab plays on his soprano sax and David plays the Hungarian cimbalom (hammered dulcimer). David did the mixing of the track.
David Shively performs concert and installation works in media ranging from Hungarian cimbalom to analog electronics and feedback systems. Solo appearances throughout North America and Europe, including Dia:Beacon, EMPAC, Miller Theatre, Performa 09, SONiC Festival, the American Academy in Rome, Other Minds 13, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Wittner Tage für neue Kammermusik, Münchener Biennale.
Currently based in Brooklyn, NY, he has been co-artistic director of the experimental music ensemble Either/Or since 2004, curating its programming and festivals in New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia. Recordings for Starkland, New World, Tzadik, Mode, Quecksilber, and other labels in addition to works for film, sound installation, and radio broadcast.