A recording of John Kameel Farah’s live performance from Roy Thompson Hall during the Toronto Symphony’s New Creations Festival, March 7, 2013. Presented by SoundStreams,…
In 2011 pianist Attila Fias and I released our album of music two pianos, called “Pieces of the Earth”. The album featured 7 improvisations and…
A performance of “Expanse” from my album “Unfolding” (Dross:tik Recordsi, 2009) performed in the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche, Berlin.
Here’s a little synopsis of this strange, unpredictable and wonderful performance in Mexico from 2007… hope you enjoy! Pics are at the bottom of the…
Musician and piano tuner Andrew Wedman tuned an old upright piano down one octave, to create something he calls “The Bass Piano”. Not only does…
This fantasia starts off as if it were a fugue or piece of loose counterpoint from the 16th century, then grows and passes through stylistic…
Also here is the link to hear the live piano version, although the piano is in equal temperament (not using the 1/4 tuning that this…
I’m very pleased to announce that I will be the first SoundMakers electronic-composer-in-residence for Soundstreams in 2013. They have just created the Electronic Composer Residency,…
2nd BLOG POST for the Soundmakers Electronic Composer Residency When I first started working electronics into my live performances more than a decade ago, I…
(First blog post for a new electronic composer residency for SoundMakers, part of Canadian new-music organization Soundstreams) I’m very excited to be SoundMakers first electronic composer-in-residence. The…
[The following is a condensed and edited version of my 2002 trip to Palestine journal entries, published in the March 2004 issue of Musicworks Magazine….
An Interview with John Kameel Farah for Wavelength Magazine, Toronto, with Craig Dunsmuir WAVELENGTH 157 JOHN KAMEEL FARAH — interview by Craig Fraid Dunsmuir Usually…
An Interview with John Kameel Farah for Wavelength Magazine, Toronto, with Evan Dickson WAVELENGTH 357 ~ SUNDAY, APRIL 1ST 2007 Even more so than most…
Turath.org Interview with Composer/Improviser/Pianist John Kameel Farah What is the extent of you training in Arab music as compared to Western music? Do you consider…
A performance of “Uprising” from my album “Unfolding” (Dross:tik Records, 2009) performed in the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche, Berlin in 2010.