For immediate Release New York City 9/6/2013 Contacts : Bob George, ARC Director, [email protected] Project Assistants : Dr Brian Q. Silver, [email protected] Consultant : Molecule Communications, [email protected] Project blog : http://indiamusicweek.wordpress.com/ Past project recordings databases : http://arcmusic.heroku.com/ ARC Website : http://arcmusic.org Tel : +1-212-226-6967 skype : arcmusic Project Website : available mid September 2013 New York—The ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) announces the launch of India Music Week (IMW). In collaboration with Columbia Libraries at Columbia University, and with the support of Founding Partners Gracenote, Incredible Labs, and the Internet Archive, ARC will lead an online project to celebrate Indian music and culture during India Music Week, Oct 6 -13, 2013. ONE MONTH AWAY! In 2011 ARC launched the first “World Music Day” celebrating Islamic music and culture (please see: www.muslimworldmusicday.com ). This online site was accessed by more than two million people worldwide on the initial date and still gets over 2,000 visitors daily. The project was awarded the prestigious "Innovative Use of Archives Award" by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York. Building on this success ARC next created Brazilian Music Day in 2012. Again millions of fans and music industry people visited this massive research site, www.brazilianmusicday.org while the ARC acquired and catalogued more than 20,000 Brazilian recordings. Building on this success ARC will expand a “Day” into a full India Music “Week.” IMW will be an online website to present, promote and explore the rich cultural heritage of Indian music of the past, present and future. IMW will offer videos, histories, seminars, concerts, lectures, sound files, sheet music, broadcasts, narrowcasts, album cover art galleries, essays, blogs, photos and links all highlighting the importance and beauty of Indian music as well as educate a global audience about it's many genres and facets. Building on our collection of more than 5,000 Indian recordings ARC, with the help of Gracenote, has catalogued 25,000 Asian Indian recordings issued domestically and from around the world. This database will be one of the largest online reference tools on the web, freely available to all. We have already created links to more than 3,500 related music industry and academic sites, as well as contacts to more than 4,000 artists IMW will launch with a massive event; the World's Largest Bhangra Dance hosted by DJ Rekha. Join her and 5,000 - 10,000 others at the South Street Seaport in New York City as we set the Guinness World Record on Sunday afternoon, Oct 6, at 5:00pm! Partners include Molecule Communications and The Association of Indians In America, NY Chapter. The project director for India Music Week is ARC Director B. George. Mr. George lived for a year in India in 1970, and spent Oct 2012 in India where he collected recordings and gave a talk at the IASA Convention in New Delhi. Dr. Silver taught at Harvard, 1974-83, and was later Ethnomusicologist and World Music Curator at Voice of America, Washington, DC. He is a scholar of, and performs, North Indian music. Ajay Shrivastav of Molecule Communications provides services and solutions on all platforms of media, from print to electronic. DJ Rekha is THE best Bhangra DJ in the world. ARC is seeking Project Sponsorship worldwide and Partnership with a cultural institution in India. ARC invites organizations and individuals interested in supporting and participating in the project to please contact us. India Music Week – Oct. 6 - 13, 2013 About the ARC : Now in our 28th year, the ARChive of Contemporary Music is the largest collection of popular music in the world, with more than two million popular music recordings. It is supported by a Board of Advisors comprised of leading musicians, songwriters and directors, including David Bowie, Jellybean Benitez, Jonathan Demme, Michael Feinstein, Youssou N'Dour, Lou Reed, Keith Richards, Nile Rodgers, Todd Rundgren, Fred Schneider, Martin Scorsese, Paul Simon and Mike Stoller. Future ‘Weeks’ will exploring the music and culture of Scandinavia (2015) Cuba (2016) Louisiana (2017) China (2018) ARChive of Contemporary Music 54 White Street New York City 10013 [email protected] 212-226-6967 Contributors – India Music Week Oct 6-13, 2013 Data + Content + Event contributors * Indian Consulates and Embassies worldwide • Nisha Sahai Achuthan – essay - “Folk Songs of Uttar Pradesh” • Afrropop Worldwide, USA – Syndicated Radio Program website focus on the music of India. • Amarrass Records, New Delhi – recordings, contest + concert in India - see blog http://indiamusicweek.wordpress.com/ • Artistik License / Manojna Yeluri, Bangalore, India – essay, “Independent Artist Concern in the Indian Music Industry” + rights workshop. • Association of Indians In America – NY • Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, NYC. Evening of Indian classical music • Sidharth Bhatia – intro to his new book on Indian Rock’n'roll + Rockin’ photo essay • CD Baby, Portland, OR – special selection – just for us – of Indian albums, discounted for the week. • Samir Chatterjee - talk illustrated with live music, "Understanding Indian Music" at Chhandayan, NYC, FREE - Sat, Oct 12, 5:30pm • Kaushiki Chakrabarty – concert, vocalist, Washington, DC. • Dr. Suresh Chandvankar • The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China – Bollywood film course + student project. • Carl Clements, visiting professor, music, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA – essay: John Coltrane + India • Columbia University, Wiener Music & Arts Library, NYC – exhibition, metadata • Columbia University, Center for Ethnomusicology, NYC – symposium • Diwali Festival (Festival of Light), South Street Seaport Deepavali Mela, Sunday Oct 6, 2013, NYC • DJ Rekha – Hosting Guinness Book of World Records attempt – largest Bhangra dance! NYC, Oct 6 • The Dhrupad Music Institute of America (DMIA) – Washingtin DC • Naresh Fernandes – Indian Jazz Photo Gallery and feature on his site + book, Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The Story of Bombay’s Jazz Age • Folktronic / SINE (Sony Music Independent Network), India. Exclusive sampler free on India Music site. • B.George – essay, film: Indian cardboard gramophone • Scott Groffman, NYU – “Ball of CONfusion – Mixing Asian Indian and Western Musical Traditions” – essay + interviews. • The Gypsy Allstars (members of Gypsy Kings) – talk/workshop as part of Bamboleo Meets Bollywood and Return to Rajasthan concert, Jodhpur, Oct 13. • HarmoNYom – Concert, NYC • Indian Music Experience Museum, Bangalore • Jerry Johansson, Dan Fröberg, Alexandra E. Lindh – Göteborg, Sweden. Concert + multimedia event. • Jonathan M. Kertzer, Director folkwaysAlive! + University of Alberta, Canada – lecture Oct 9 • Rolf Killius – exclusive video and 14 folk music videos created for the Utsavam: Exhibition Films, Horniman Museum, London • Sunny Mathew, India – 365 seventy-eight rpm recordings – one for every day of the year – on a specially created India Week YouTube channel. • Molecule Communications / Ajay Shrivastav - NYC • New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, NYC – exhibit of Indian recordings • Ruchira Panda - concert, Hindustani vocalist, upholder of Kotali Gharana, at Chhandayan, NYC, Oct 12. • Suchita Rao – concert, vocalist, Learnquest Academy, Framingham, MA , Oct 12 • Chris Read / WhoSampled.com – Video illustrated feature on Asian Indian sample sources East><West • Realworld Records – streaming compilation from Peter Gabriel’s label • Phil Scarff – concert, saxophone • Michal Shapiro, NYC – Film report on the India Indie scene in Chennai • M. S. Sheela – concert, Carnatic vocalist , SSVT, Washington DC, Oct 12 • Baluji Shrivastav + the Inner Vision Orchestra, Plymouth University, UK, Sat Oct 12 • Dr. Brian Q. Silver, USA – essay: Moral Conduct and Authority: The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam • Simla House Inc, USA – donated recordings • Stephen Slawek – concert, University of Texas at Austin, Butler School of Music • Studio-X, Mumbai / Agora Collective, Berlin - Cocktails + Synths: Musicians create an aural portrait of Mumbai, with a performance + party. • “Sound of Folkways” Radio Show, CJSR, Canada, 9-10PM, featuring Smithsonian Folkways UNESCO re-issue of Indian music, Oct 9th, • South Asian Studies Library, Columbia University, NYC, Gary J. Hausman, - resource page, • University of Salford, UK, Centre for Popular Music Research • UNK: The Radha Thomas Ensemble – Jazz from Bangalore ARChive of Contemporary Music 54 White Street New York City 10013 [email protected] 212-226-6967 .