National Sawdust: On A Sphere: Musica Universalis at 4/16/2016 at National Sawdust

Here we go for another amazing Ricardo Romaneiro production at Brooklyn's National Sawdust on April 16, 2016!! I will be performing with Ricardo and other artists in an ensemble setting.
ON A SPHERE - NATIONAL SAWDUST

Tickets here:  TICKETS

Blast from the past! - Jazzy Bell Project - Baby Jupiter NYC

This is a link to a 1998 video of my old band the Jazzy Bell Project live at Baby Jupiter in the lower east side (ludlow and stanton).

Jazzy Bell Project

The Jazzy Bell Project Live from Ravi Sharma on Vimeo.

POLYTOPE! American Irish Historical Society

Honored again to be part of this amazing night at the American Irish Historical Society February 26, 2016. I opened with Vasco on bass clarinet and then we played for another 2 1/2 hours during the reception. Not a beat free zone!

Polytope

Polytope Promo

Some footage of our performances at the American Irish Historical Society in upper Manhattan across the street from the Met. February 26, 2016 performance of Polytope.

Friday February 26, 2016 7pm-11pm

Tickets $60
includes food pairing & sponsored drinks
https://polytope.eventbrite.com/

The American Irish Historical Society invites you to POLYTOPE - an intimate salon concert experience performed by String Noise (Conrad Harris & PK Harris) paired with culinary creations by rising star chef Jonah Reider. Featuring the music of Xenakis, Scelsi, Stockhausen, Niblock and a world premiere by Ricardo Romaneiro.

Also on the program, a collaborative installation between chef Jonah Reider, poet Chris Cahill, composer Ricardo Romaneiro, and engineer Leo Leite called CENTO: The Light & Dark & Famine & Feast of the Ages. Weaving music, poetry, and food, audience members walk, listen, look, and explore freely while thematically pairing food stations throughout the turn-of-the-century mansion.


Lighting by John Houle | Visuals by Mauricio Ceppi
Ambient reception music by NoisioN (Ravi) & Vasko

curated by Ricardo Romaneiro

Space is limited; reserve your tickets today!

tickets:
https://polytope.eventbrite.com/

press release:
http://tinyurl.com/ztqxolv

"DUEL" music excerpt by Ricardo Romaneiro; performed by String Noise

Verboten with Sandbox Percussion

I was honored again by Ricardo to be included as opening music at this amazing event at Verboten nightclub this past January, 2016!
Sandbox Percussion - Verboten

LUNAIRE!! American Irish Historical Society

Once again provided reception live remixing of the evening's program.

Lunaire

Brownstone! American Irish Historical Society

noision bio
Brownstone

Brownstone from Metropolis Ensemble on Vimeo.

Look Mom! I am in the Wall Street Journal!

Wow! The Wall Street Journal features a piece today on Brownstone, the interactive immersive piece performed by Ricardo Romaneiro and Metropolis Ensemble and me at the Irish American Historical Society's beautiful mansion across the street from the MET this month. Here is the very cool video with me trying out some vocoder next to Ricardo with the rest of the talented musicians and composers: https://m.wsj.net/video/20150122/012215nybrown/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

Scar Arias!! American Irish Historical Society

Scar Arias

Inside Reel - noision music credits

I almost forgot about this PBS documentary that noision provided 5 tracks from the electronic release "Exposion." Exposion was a "contest" we ran on the MC-505 Yahoo Group (previously the GrooveSource on One List -- anyone remember that?).

The list is still around and kicking (barely). We gathered our mainly Roland MC-505 produced tracks and picked the best. Noision (the label) published the album on MP3.COM and donated all profit to Amnesty International. A few thousand bucks if I recall correctly. This was about 1998 or 1999. As far as I can tell, Exposion and the follow up Exposion II, Dusk and Dawn, were the first electronic compilations created solely "online" with money to charity. If anyone knows otherwise, let me know!

Those were really the beginning days of group collaboration on the internet and things like One List and Yahoo Groups brought people technically online, truly closer together. I still have friends from this list, some who I have hung with in NYC and elsewhere in "real life," etc. It seemed a bit weird then, but not so much now.

MP3.COM was the future and really ahead of its time. It let anyone put up tracks, paid them royalties merely when anyone played them, and allowed you to sell your music, track by track, or by "album" for any price you set and gave you most of the money. Crazy! In fact it was easier than all the similar outlets that sort of do the same thing now. Google Play, etc. Too bad mp3.com flew too close to the sun with its music locker type ploy which sunk it in litigation. 15 years later, and pretty much that is how it's done.

In any event, a friend's brother produced the documentary and used 5 tracks from the Exposion release:

Credits at the end of the film include:

Do You Want It - paakwaan

Monotonic - Oliver Kaeser

Untitled Star - XTC Dream

Horning Out - Carnivorous

Stolen Thought - rEalm (aka Tarekith aka Erik Magrini :) )

Where The Hell Are You Going - Georg Conrans

Here is the video:

http://insidereel.com/2012/08/13/digital-filmmaking-documentary-pbs/