T. A. Zook's Page

What is your interest in the CreativesDC beta community?

Music!

How are you using your imagination and original ideas to enrich our economy and culture in DC, and beyond? Or, how would you like it to?

Please refer to the work posted at:

http://www.myspace.com/tazook

http://www.myspace.com/tazookbasscello

http://www.myspace.com/xxichamberensemblepartone

http://www.myspace.com/xxichamberensembleparttwo

http://www.myspace.com/lostcivilizationsmusic

http://www.myspace.com/morelostcivilizations

http://www.myspace.com/merellasebastianzook

http://www.myspace.com/sebastianandzook1

http://www.myspace.com/sebastianandzook2

http://www.myspace.com/martinandzook

http://www.myspace.com/chimiakgomezmartinzook

http://www.myspace.com/zookfieldrecording

http://www.myspace.com/zooksounddesign

http://www.myspace.com/lostcivilizationsatorpheus

Here's information on forthcoming performances that I'll be involved in:

May, 30 2009 10:30 PM - "Twenty-first Century Chamber Ensemble" at Artomatic’s Sonic Circuits Evening!
55 M Street, SE, Washington, Washington DC - Free!

Description: Artomatic (http://www.artomatic.org/) is a month-long multimedia arts event that draws together visual artists, musicians and performers and brings their work to the community. Artomatic is free and open to everyone. The event is being held in a building that is atop the Navy Yard Metro Station. The May 30, 2009 appearance by the Twenty-first Century Chamber Ensemble is part of the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music evening being featured at Artomatic’s Cabaret Stage.

June, 12 2009 07:00 PM - "Twenty-first Century Chamber Ensemble" to appear at Artomatic’s "Cabaret Stage"
55 M Street, SE, Washington, Washington DC - Free!

The Twenty-first Century Chamber Ensemble (http://www.myspace.com/xxichamberensemblepartone) will be appearing at Artomatic’s "Cabaret Stage". 55 M Street, SE, Washington, Washington DC - Free!

June, 14 2009 07:00 PM - "Lost Civilizations" to appear at Artomatic’s "Cabaret Stage"
55 M Street, SE, Washington, Washington DC - Free!

The "Lost Civilizations" experimental music project (http://www.myspace.com/lostcivilizationsmusic) will be appearing at Artomatic’s Cabaret Stage. 55 M Street, SE, Washington, Washington DC - Free!

September, 19 2009 07:00 PM - "Twenty-first Century Chamber Ensemble" to appear at the Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center!
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 - tba

The Twenty-first Century Chamber Ensemble, which is featured on the "District of Noise, Vol 2" compilation CD being released in connection with the 2009 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music (http://www.dc-soniccircuits.org/news/), will be performing at the CD release party at the Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center (http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/) in Silver Spring, MD.

September, 23 2009 06:00 PM - "Twenty-first Century Chamber Ensemble" at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage!
2700 F Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20566 - Free!

The Twenty-first Century Chamber Ensemble has been invited to perform a set in connection with the 2009 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, which is being held under the auspices of American Composers’ Forum.

Bio (html accepted)

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My principal instrument is nylon-string guitar; I also play electric guitar; electric bass (5-string fretless and fretted); NS Design bass cello; and a variety of analog instruments such as bowls, rainsticks, slidewhistle, whistle-flutes, oceanharp, etc., through digital signal processors.

I began my study of the guitar in Chile and Uruguay, and continued upon my return to the U.S. in the early 1960s, having the extraordinarily good fortune to then study under Sophocles Papas (classical) and Frank Mullen (jazz). Since 1999, I have been participating in improvisational workshops led by David Darling under the auspices of the Music for People organization.

"Favorite quotes"

The great Andrés Segovia's insight into the essence of music is revealed in the following:

". . . sonority and its infinite shadings are not the result of stubborn will power but spring from the innate excellence of the spirit."

David Darling:

"Music is the only source of energy that I have known in my life that gives humans a chance to be instantly transformed into spirit."

"One of the sadnesses I feel about modern civilization is that the birth right to be musical has been taken away from many humans who have suffered from very narrow minded and uninformed teachers of music as well as society in general when there is criticism of any human of failing to sing or groove to some artificial standard.

What we know about music is that it comes to each individual in a personal way and when our outpouring of singing or grooving is approved of and encouraged great things happen for each individual. All of us succeed when we are surrounded by love rather than negative action."

Alberto Ludwig Urquieta:

"El universo es tremendamente creativo, lo que nos obliga a abrirnos a lo desconocido…" (The universe is tremendously creative, which obliges us to open ourselves to the unknown . . .)

LaDonna Smith:

"Every human being should have a musical instrument."

Email

t_a_zook@hotmail.com

Website

http://www.myspace.com/tazook

What place/scene/event do you think DC needs to attract more creatives?

There needs to be a venue where experimental and improvisational events can be held on a regular basis. Two organizations in the DC area focus on this genre: Sonic Circuits (http://www.dc-soniccircuits.org/news/ ; http://districtofnoise.org) and The Electric Possible (http://www.panicresearch.com/electric_poss.html); being able to use a suitable venue is becoming more and more of a struggle and such events are essential for the survival growth of this thriving community. ​NPR'​s "All Thing​s Consi​dered​"​ featu​red a nice piece​ on the DC exper​iment​al music​ commu​nity on Janua​ry 6, 2009 (http:​/​/​www.​ npr. org/​templ​ates/​story​/​story​.​ php?​story​Id=​99046​689#​comme​ntBlo​ck) as did The Washington Post on February 7, 2009 (http://ia301514.us.archive.org/2/items/TCE-2009-03-11-09/TCE-2009-0...) .

Who referred you? (This is how we give credit!)

Nicolas Laget