L'Oud and the Abstract Truth
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Live double CD, and book of poetry -- Mediterranean music based on custom of joining a musical form with each portion in the Torah.
Backers: 56
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Funded: $4,613 of $3,600
Dates: Feb 8th -> Mar 9th (30 days)
Project By: James Stone Goodman and Zach Fredman
Backers: 56
Average Pledge Per Backer: $82
Funded: $4,613 of $3,600
Dates: Feb 8th -> Mar 9th (30 days)
Project By: James Stone Goodman and Zach Fredman
$4,613
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Last Updated: March 9 @ 18:30 -0500 GMT
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Should Be 
March 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Should be a thank you. I've done that. The story with verve. Done that. Appreciation for precedents. Done. Gratitude for collaborationists. Accomplished. Love for material. Accomplished. Deep breath. Here. Commitment to Next. In place. Should be... (Read More)
Peace out of the Pieces
March 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Last Update: Peace out of the Pieces What are we looking for through this work? Zach and I were living in a place deeper than the separations of Abraham’s children, Isaac and Ishmael, we were mining that musical depth and I was working with words a... (Read More)
Two Hands Clapping
March 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Or Vision, part 2 I was in Israel when I wrote this and the second or third evening after I arrived, I twisted my ankle in a rather dramatic way. I saw this at least a week before I came. I didn’t tell anyone I saw it coming because I didn’t... (Read More)
Vision, part 1 or Vaudeville Kabbalah
March 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Vision, part 1 R. Gamaliel, R. Eliezer b. Azariah, R. Yehoshua, and R. Akiva came to the Temple Mount they saw a fox coming out of the Holy of Holies, they all burst into tears, except Akiva Akiva laughed. [Makkot 24b] I saw the foxes on the narrow... (Read More)
More Story
February 28th - via: kickstarter.com
One summer I took a break from studying oud and we all went to Italy. We stayed next to an artist who lived half the year there, half the year in New York City. I didn’t have an instrument with me but it is in the nature of obsession to think about... (Read More)
Maqam
February 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Maqam The Philosopher Avicenna (d. 1037) Identified 12 principal modes Or maqamat Singular maqam From “place” (Arabic) Hebrew cognate Maqom. Ethical and cosmological implications Planets Signs of zodiac Times of day and night Elementals Poetry... (Read More)
Seed Cell Tree Body
February 24th - via: kickstarter.com
I traveled to a country where Arabs and Jews rarely mix. They mixed even less then than twenty years previously, when I first came to live in Israel. This time I was taking a sabbatical to study Arabic music with a master of my instrument. My... (Read More)
The Kabbalah of Repair
February 24th - via: kickstarter.com
or The Breaking of the Vessels and The Gathering of the Sparks I went on sabbatical to study oud with a master who lived in the Upper Galilee. Waiting in line at Kennedy airport, somebody pushed me and my oud was pinned for a moment between myself... (Read More)
I Love Maps
February 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
from The Book of Navigation Sure I do, I love maps. I love maps and grammar and words and grammar books and first editions of Leaves of Grass and leather binding and old fountain pens and dictionaries and typewriters and libraries I love libraries... (Read More)
Story in Two
February 19th - via: kickstarter.com
My collaborator Zach. I’ve known him since he was a little kid. He’s a friend of my daughter. A guitar enthusiast, we jammed together. Singing. Making up stuff. I made up poems on occasion of his passages. On his graduation from high school, Zach... (Read More)
Small Alef
February 19th - via: kickstarter.com
The more poetry I wrote, the leaner my writing became. I started writing poetry called small alef poetry. Partially a nod to one of my favorite writers (Borges), also because I love the intersection of form and meaning. The book of Leviticus begins... (Read More)
Vessel
February 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Present, but hidden – recede to the heart of the story the quiet center. For all the qualities we remember -- we remember humility. Not for accomplishments For irrelevance. I am an empty vessel, said Blue, We recede so creativity happens no place... (Read More)
Pantheon
February 18th - via: kickstarter.com
There are a few teachers that can tell you this is your work, this is not your work. If you have one, two, I would consider it fortunate. I have had more, they have been so important to my life that when I start naming them it takes some patience to... (Read More)
Abstract Truth
February 17th - via: kickstarter.com
I had just moved to Phoenix, Arizona, early 1970’s, coming off a solid year performing on the road. I was happy to have landed somewhere though I was alone, knew no one in that town, couldn't sleep, stayed up late night every night listening to... (Read More)
The Story, Told Backwards
February 17th - via: kickstarter.com
I went on sabbatical and spent six months studying oud with a great player living in the north, the largest Arab town in the Galilee. At first, I didn’t think I heard the notes. You will do fine, he said, in the time we have together. Thus my... (Read More)
When the Story is Round You May Start Anywhere
February 16th - via: kickstarter.com
We are working the maqams. A maqam is a Jewish-Arabic musical form, a musical figure, similar to a mode, that is played as a kind of structure over which one improvises. Maqam means Place, Hebrew cognate maqom. In many of our middle eastern Jewish... (Read More)
L'Oud and the Abstract Truth
February 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Music magic The musicians – Magic The commit to Words magic Words tumbling over each other Magic. The hustle magic The audiences magic The strangers in the park Magic. The romp around New York City Magic. The new friends magic Old friends... (Read More)
What I Learned
February 12th - via: kickstarter.com
What I Learned You can take an oath and fulfill it when you move beyond your perimeter where creativity happens you can surprise yourself you can work with talented people who get your Deal even when your Deal Is not familiar. You can follow your... (Read More)
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