Diwon transforms the gallery into a recording studio to layer his own music collection with radio excerpts from the Museum’s National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting. During his residency he will create a new composition entitled “That Yemenite Kid.†The artist’s stage name refers to the Yemenite diwan, a book of devotional songs recited on the Sabbath and at Jewish life cycle events. In collaboration with vocalist Smadar, Diwon premieres his new work at the Thursday night closing party for Off the Wall on March 27.
The lounge features laptops for visitor use, as well as mp3 players containing tracks by Diwon and Broadcast Archive selections that include audio material collected and edited by American reporter Arthur Holzman during the early years of Israeli statehood.
Diwon is a multicultural maestro who produces a mix of Yemenite and Sephardic music blended with electro/hip-hop beats. He frequently collaborates with non-electronic musicians, fusing live and recorded sound. He has performed with Lou Reed, Anthony Coleman, Daniel Carter, DJ Spooky, Matisyahu, MC Paul Barman, Idan Raichel, and others.
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This 2-week open studio project features 11 artists in fashion, music, performance art and video. One regular admission ticket gets you in Sunday - Thursday to watch works-in-progress, meet artists, and attend concerts, salons, runway show, poetry slam, and parties.
March 16-27, 2008
Sun-Wed 11am-5:45pm, Thu 11am-Midnight
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Week 1: March 16 - 20
Week 2: March 23 - 27
One regular admission gets you in all week to watch works in progress, meet artists, attend parties, and more.
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elisheva
March 17th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Happy Purim, Everyone! I’m Elisheva Gould, a grad student in Jewish education and Andrew Ingall’s media intern at the Jewish Museum.
I’ve been working with Andy and Erez (aka Diwon), sifting through the fascinating radio and television archives here, and helping to find Sephardic material for Diwon to play with….
Here are some cool facts about the Yemenite music tracks that Diwon gleaned from the Jewish Museum’s Broadcast Archive:
The compiler and narrator of these tracks is Arthur Holzman, a radio reporter from New York, who witnessed the founding of the State of Israel and broadcasted from Tel Aviv from 1947 – 1951.
Wanting to capture the diverse sounds and cultures of early statehood, Holzman invited Yemenite singers such as Ahuva Tzadok and Batya Ozeri into his studio. These women sang in Hebrew, a cappella or with musical accompaniment, and often explained the meaning of their traditional and modern Jewish songs in English.
Holzman’s recordings of these songs offer a unique glimpse into Yemenite Jewish music, culture, and life in early modern Israel. Diwon’s reimagining of these tracks promises to be a musical adventure!