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Raag Time Machine

by Casimir Liberski

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Raagtime 1 01:47
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Raagtime 2 03:29
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Raagtime 3 02:22
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Raagtime 4 02:35
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Raagtime 5 01:23
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Raagtime 6 01:36
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Raagtime 7 00:34
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Raagtime 8 03:10
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Raagtime 9 01:30
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Raagtime 10 08:04
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Raagtime 11 09:10
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Raagtime 12 02:04
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Raagtime 13 01:55
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Raagtime 14 03:24
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Raagtime 15 08:12
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Raagtime 16 04:31
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Raagtime 17 02:39
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Raagtime 18 27:22

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Recorded live at KANAL CENTRE POMPIDOU (Garage Citroën) in Brussels on January 13, 2019 with a Zoom recorder.

"For this performance I will elaborate on the concept of Ragas (scales from Indian classical music) in their association with the twenty-four-hour cycle of the day. Each particular Raga has a preferred time of the day that it is being sung or played.

There is a natural relationship between certain note frequencies and human emotions and psyche according to specific hours and seasons. These notes have been organized into melodic modes and constitute a framework for improvisation.

This idea came to me as I was commissioned to come up with an extended performance at the Kanal - Centre Pompidou.

I immediately got inspired by the modernist architecture of what used to be the Citroën garage and imagined using this vast, industrial, metallic warehouse space as an instrument itself for its reverb and engine noises which is perfectly adequate for the kind of sound biotope that I’m hoping to generate over there.

The idea is to infuse ancestral spirituality into this mechanical garage by creating a homeostasis of sounds made with analogue, digital and acoustic instruments. The performance will evolve through the cycle of ragas according the progression of the day."


Casimir Liberski –synthesizers
Shoko Igarashi – tenor saxophone, flute, electronic wind instrument
Martin Méreau – drums, vibraphone, electronic drums
Martijn "Melawati" Ravesloot – modular synthesizers, sound design
François "Shakmat" Gaspard "Modular Synthesizers and FXs

"Pour cette performance, je me baserai sur le concept des ragas. Elle se construira sur des gammes et des loops préenregistrés de musique indienne classique, en observant la configuration très particulière que celle-ci entretient avec les différents moments de la journée.

Pour les Indiens, chaque heure du jour a un raga qui convient. Traditionnellement, ils considèrent qu’il y a une relation naturelle entre les fréquences de certaines notes et la psyché humaine, et que celles-ci diffèrent selon les moments du jour, ainsi d’ailleurs que selon les saisons.

Les notes s’organisent en modes mélodiques spécifiques qui servent de canevas à l’improvisation.

L’idée de ce croisement m’est venue quand on m’a proposé une très longue performance musicale (six heures) au Kanal-Centre Pompidou.

L’architecture du lieu m’a suggéré d’utiliser ce grand espace comme un instrument particulier, avec le noise qui lui est propre et sa réverbération singulière.

Les sons de la performance, mixant bruits du réel avec les sons analogiques, digitaux et acoustiques voulus par les musiciens, généreront un biotope sonore homéostatique infusé d’une antique spiritualité.

Le temps long de la performance évoluera selon le cycle des ragas des matins et des soirs."

Casimir Liberski – synthétiseurs
Shoko Igarashi – saxophone ténor, flute, EWI
Martin Méreau – drums, vibraphone, electronic drums
Martijn "Melawati" Ravesloot – synthétiseur modulaire, design sonore.
François "Shakmat" Gaspard "Modular Synthesizers and FXs

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released January 3, 2021

Mixed by Vincent De Bast

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Casimir Liberski Brussels, Belgium

Casimir Liberski (born 28 January 1988) is a Belgian jazz musician who plays piano and electric keyboard.

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