"Putra, you can share your voice by commenting on Discussions like this one, or on the group…"
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Samita Sinha
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- New York, NY
- United States
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Samita Sinha's Photos
Samita Sinha's Blog
"We Shall Overcome," what does it mean to us today?
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 10:00am 2 Comments 0 Likes
Samita Sinha: What Inspires Me
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 2:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
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Jonathon Hampton replied to Samita Sinha's discussion Creating Whole Sound Worlds with the Human Voice in the group Voices
Mohamed Hazem Gouda left a comment for Samita Sinha"well once I get some of the raw sektchs of musical ideas recorded you'll be sent something :D"
Samita Sinha commented on M. Alvindra Putra's video
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"alvin-- hello! you are making your voice heard on this forum by posting videos like this! i really…"
Welcome, Samita Sinha!
Let's Experiment with the Voice!
We'll have fun challenging conventional ideas about song forms and the limits of the voice as an instrument. We'll experiment with uses of the human voice in creating sound art and new music. You can get a head start now by checking out the activity from my last project, Ragas to Rock!
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Profile Information
- I am a:
- Student, Teaching Artist, Performing Artist, Carnegie Hall artist
- My school is:
- Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute
- My style(s) of music:
- Classical, Experimental, Traditional, Electronic music, Other
- I am interested in:
- Composing / Arranging / Songwriting, Performing, Electronics (analog and digital)
- My musical instrument(s):
- Voice
- My favorite artists, influences, and inspirations are:
- Artists of any genre that make their own sound world (or invent their own sound world), like Bjork, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Kumar Gandharva, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Kishori Amonkar. Hindustani classical music, folk music, and qawwali, and Baul singing. Dance inspires the way that I sing, esp. butoh and Pina Bausch, and literature is a constant source of inspiration.
- More about me:
- Samita Sinha is an artist and vocalist/ composer based in New York. She combines tradition with experiment to create new forms, drawing from a deep grounding in North Indian classical music, a contemporary vocabulary, folk and ritual music, and songs and texts in several languages. Her work reconfigures given inheritances, and combines raw, visceral energy with knowledge garnered from classical tradition.
As a composer/ performer and improviser, Sinha uses her voice as her primary instrument, along with tanpura and analog and digital electronics. She has performed her solo and ensemble work at PS 1, Roulette, Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts, Blue Note, and Issue Project Room, at universities such as UC Berkeley, NYU, Macalaster College, and St. Olaf, as well as abroad in India and the Middle East. Sinha also performs with ANATOMY, a duo Hindustani/ jazz groove-heavy electronic music project with Marc Cary, and uses her voice as an improvising instrument in jazz ensembles including Marc Cary’s FOCUS and Sunny Jain Collective. She has received awards from NYSCA and Urban Artists Initiative to create and compose new works, from Queens Council on the Arts for community music work, and from the Fulbright Foundation to study Hindustani music in India.
Sinha speaks and sings in several languages including Hindi, Urdu, Brajh, Bengali, Sanskrit, Mandarin Chinese, English, and Spanish. Her passion for language has led to collaborations with poets—she is currently working with Fiona Templeton to compose a score for The Medead, Templeton’s performance epic retelling of the story of Medea. From 2005 to 2007 Sinha toured as a vocalist with the late poet/ griot Sekou Sundiata’s music theater work, the 51st (dream) state, which appeared at the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Aaron Davis Hall, and universities and theaters around the country. Sinha also performs with The Phoneme Choir, a project by Daria Fain and Robert Kocik that integrates qi gong and movement with the sounds of language.
Sinha’s work spans a range of genres, scenes, and contexts, moving from contemporary/ experimental art spaces to jazz clubs, traditional home concert settings to theaters. Inspired by Sundiata’s call to artists to create new public rituals, Sinha’s extends her practice beyond the art world by leading Community Sings—events that bring different people together in one room for singing and dialogue—in her own Queens neighborhood as well as in York, Alabama. She teaches music, especially the intersection of music and culture, in NYC public schools through Carnegie Hall and the 92nd Street Y.
Sinha received her MFA in Music/ Sound from Bard, and her BA in Literature (with a focus on Cultural Criticism and Mandarin) from Yale. She has studied Hindustani music with Dr. Alka Deo Marulkar and Shiv Shankar Pandey, and currently trains with Shubhangi Sakhalkar.
Comment Wall (33 comments)
- At 7:38pm on August 16, 2012,
Mohamed Hazem Gouda said… also sorry for the late reply
- At 7:37pm on August 16, 2012, Mohamed Hazem Gouda said…
well once I get some of the raw sektchs of musical ideas recorded you'll be sent something :D
- At 7:29pm on July 10, 2012,
Deya Maldas said… ms. samita! sorry for the late reply, but thanks so much. at this point, i'm just trying to get a better base in hindustani classical music. once i have learned that genre well, i plan on mixing the two together and doing fusion!
- At 4:54pm on July 2, 2012,
Aaron Beverly said… Thanks Samita! And I'd certainly love to join your group. Any little spark of inspiration from it can be the start of a wildfire of creativity.
- At 11:55am on July 2, 2012,
Britlin Losee said… Hi, Samita! Thank you for your very kind words. I've just joined your project, and I will definitely look at the posted videos as soon as I can.
- At 11:25am on July 2, 2012,
Rahul Rajkhowa said… Hey !!!!! I've been good..got over with school..headed to college later this month..started a channel on youtube..got a total of 4000 hits on my videos and 17 subscribers...i knw its less but its a start!!!...how u been?
- At 9:04pm on July 1, 2012,
Rebecca Buckley said… Thank you so much for the kind words! :) I actually am a member of the "Voices Around The World" group! I'm working on some original stuff at the moment and I'll be sure to post it in the group when it's ready to be shared! Thanks again! :)
- At 12:06am on June 17, 2012,
Sneh Ratna Choudhary said… sure..but how? do i email it to you?
- At 6:09am on June 1, 2012, Sneh Ratna Choudhary said…
hi Ma'am listen to my new song "love of my life".i finally found a door between classical and my music
- At 7:27am on May 27, 2012,
Lakshmi Iyer said… sure mam i would definitely be there.
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