import / export is a new bi-coastal ensemble project featuring brian ellingsen (double bass), ed garcia (sundanese kendang drums), and robbie beahrs (voice) from new york and san francisco.
Robbie Beahrs (Robert Oliver Beahrs) is an Oakland-based composer, vocalist, and musical ethnographer. Currently a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at U.C. Berkeley, he is interested in Turkic nomadic music/sound-making in Siberia and Inner Asia, with a particular focus on timbre, politics, and the voice. Robbie actively composes, performs (voice, igil horsehead fiddle, jaw harp, theremin), lectures, and gives workshops in Tuvan throat-singing as well as various extended vocal techniques.
robeahrs (at) gmail.com
raw
for jesse
voice, celeste, igil by robbie
the yellow trotter (chyraa-xor)
written by robbie beahrs, based on a tuvan folk song
performed by import/export
robbie beahrs, voice and igil (horsehead fiddle); brian ellingsen, double bass; ed garcia, kendang drums (sung in english and tuvan)
soundscapes recorded in the tuvan countryside by ted levin and joel gordon
sketches of nature (boidus churumaly)
written and performed by import/export
robbie beahrs, voice; brian ellingsen, double bass; ed garcia, kendang drums
altyn altai (piano strings, voice)
written by edil huseinov (from kazakhstan)
arranged and performed by robbie beahrs, plucked grand piano and voice (sung in kazakh)
mountain voices (double bass, voice)
written by evgeni ulugbashev (from khakassia, russia)
arranged and performed by robbie beahrs, voice and brian ellingsen, double bass (sung in khakass and english)
hawk hill hog horn jamming
recorded by robbie beahrs using binarual DSM microphones on 17-Oct-2009 around midnight on hawk hill overlooking the golden gate bridge
(andrea lieberstein, flute)
drinking whiskey in the rain
for voices, baritone tuba, umbrella, and rain
written and recorded by robbie beahrs
fractured mirrors
for voices and sampled percussion
written and recorded by robbie beahrs
