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DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Ania M.\nMusicians: Mark Deutsch\n\nLast weekend I ha
 d the pleasure to hearing Mark accompanying a Butoh performance on the Baz
 antar.  Butoh is a Japanese art theater and Bazantar is a sound healing st
 ring instrument that Mark invented.  It has a transcendental soundscape th
 at opens the mind and heals the body.\n\nPlease join me at this special pe
 rformance that serendipitously came together for the month of November.  J
 ust in time for the election and Thanksgiving season to get us into a zen 
 state of mind.\n\nAs always\, this will be a potluck\, so bring a dish or 
 an appetite.\n\nAbout the musician:\nI have been a professional musician s
 ince the age of twelve. I have a background in non-linear mathematics\, sa
 cred systems\, and cosmology. I am a classically trained contrabassist and
  sitarist. As a performer\, I have extensive experience in orchestral and 
 world music ensembles\, jazz/blues combos\, and solo sitar recitals. I inv
 ented a new acoustic instrument\, the Bazantar. It was awarded a patent in
  1999. Since inventing the Bazantar\, my main focus has been on developing
  the performance techniques (pedagogy) for this instrument\, composing\, r
 ecording\, teaching\, doing workshops\, and lecturing on sound and music
 ’s effects on physiology and consciousness. My latest solo album is The 
 Picasso Tunings\, a four-hour tone poem of unaccompanied Bazantar music\, 
 and my most recent film work as a featured musician is Apple TV’s Prehis
 toric Planet with David Attenborough\, Nocturnes\, a 2024 Sundance Documen
 tary Film Festival award winner\, and Water For Life\, a film about indige
 nous water rights.\nMusic\nI am an expert improviser\, a Jazz musician who
  grew up playing the entire canon of American popular music in my family's
  combo. I am also a classically trained sitarist and orchestra contrabassi
 st. What I do has a vast pan-cultural vibe\, meditative\, Avante Garde\, t
 raditional\, and spiritual with elements of many cultures: European\, Indi
 an\, Persian\, African\, Chinese\, American\, Japanese\, and so on. I am c
 onsidered an expert on different cultures' tuning systems and the underlyi
 ng mathematics that makes them distinct. People typically experience what 
 I do as a soloist as healing though sometimes\, depending on the situation
 \, exorcistic. I am flexible and have performed in a multitude of differen
 t environments. My main music instructors were Henry Loew and Carolyn Whit
 e of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra\, and Ustad Imrat Khan\, the world
 -renowned Surbahar Maestro. Everything I perform is an original compositio
 n.
LOCATION:Mission District\, SF
SUMMARY:Mark Deutsch healing soundscape of Bazantar and Butoh performance
URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/14711-mark-deutsch-healing-soundscape-
 of-bazantar-and-butoh-performance
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