Sabzabi: On Having Become Obsolete at Philadelphia Art Alliance

Sabzabi is a music composition and performance project started in 2012. They use live drum set alongside innovative rhythmic recipes and constraints to explore experimental undulant structures. Once this rhythmic scaffolding is built, an orchestration of pitched instruments is composed onto these building blocks.

In live performance, Sabzabi presents these compositions and rhythmic strategies with live drums purposefully paired with quadraphonic audio and varying forms of visual media. The result is a hypnotic driving revision of our sense of pulse.

Sabzabi uses intricate percussive technique to twist and obscure our sense and understanding of rhythm. The expansion and contraction of time is used throughout the performances. This is an auditory method that conveys the composition’s theme of the cyclical characteristic of nature’s diverse set of biosystems. Adding to the auditory experience, you will be placed within a storm of immersive quadraphonic audio....

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Sabzabi is a music composition and performance project started in 2012. They use live drum set alongside innovative rhythmic recipes and constraints to explore experimental undulant structures. Once this rhythmic scaffolding is built, an orchestration of pitched instruments is composed onto these building blocks.

In live performance, Sabzabi presents these compositions and rhythmic strategies with live drums purposefully paired with quadraphonic audio and varying forms of visual media. The result is a hypnotic driving revision of our sense of pulse.

Sabzabi uses intricate percussive technique to twist and obscure our sense and understanding of rhythm. The expansion and contraction of time is used throughout the performances. This is an auditory method that conveys the composition’s theme of the cyclical characteristic of nature’s diverse set of biosystems. Adding to the auditory experience, you will be placed within a storm of immersive quadraphonic audio.

Visually, these performances feature live drumming by composer John Patrick Stewart and thematic video accompaniment.

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