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Event Description/ Synopsis
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The Lasalle School of Contemporary Music Lunchtime Concert Series presents Suresh Vaidyanathan and Lasalle full time music lecturer Darren Moore percussion duo.
The Suresh Vaidyanathan and Darren Moore percussion duo is a meeting point of South Indian Carnatic percussion and contemporary drum set playing. Rather than an superficial East meets West fusion, Vaidyanathan and Moore aim to find a middle ground between the two traditions with a focus on improvisation and interplay.
Suresh Vaidyanathan will be the featured School of Contemporary Music artist-in-residence from August 12-18, 2014.
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Biographies of performers
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Suresh Vaidyanathan is regarded at one of India's top ghatam players, renown for his revolutionary aesthetically aggressive approach. He is also a multi percussionist handling a variety traditional Indian percussion instruments like, tavil, mridangam, kanjira, morsing and konnakkol. A master percussionist and improviser, he has worked with Zakir Hussian, Karaikudi Mani, Bickram Gosh and was even featured on Paul Simon's latest album 'So beautiful or so what'. Vaidyanathan is a well respected percussionist throughout the world who regularly plays international festivals and concerts on the highest professional level.
Darren Moore is a drummer, sound artist, composer and educator. He performs regularly as a drummer playing various styles of music including jazz, pop, fusion, free jazz and freely improvised music and also performs using analogue synthesizer, electronics and laptop.
Darren is currently based in Singapore where he is Lecturer in Music at the School of Contemporary Music at Lasalle College of the Arts. He is the curator of the CHOPPA experimental music festival and series in Singapore and is active on the jazz and experimental music scenes in South East Asia, Japan, Australia and Europe. Darren has received a Doctorate of Musical Art from Griffith University in Brisbane Australia looking at the adaptation of Carnatic Indian rhythms to drum set.
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