Nine Takes Global Composer Project
8 videos • 42 views • by Ropeadope Keyboardist, theatre composer, and musical storyteller Russ Kaplan presents a unique and interesting response to the current state of global lockdown and social change. Nine Takes is an international musical experiment that looks to build bridges in a time of isolation. Nine musicians from across the globe - strangers before this - formed a “global writing group” to compose one tune apiece. They then exchanged their sheet music amongst each other, and all filmed their own concerts of the whole set... but without ever hearing any demos of the songs beforehand. The result is nine fully original interpretations of this thrilling new collection of World Jazz. In our new socially distant world, Nine Takes is a project built on trust, creativity, and celebrating our individuality. The collaborators are: Russ Kaplan | New York City | July 13 | 9AM EDT (UTC-4) Lisa Marie Simmons | Lake Garda, Italy | July 14 | 9AM EDT (UTC-4) Yasushi Karasawa aka N’Sawa Saraca | Tokyo, Japan | July 15 | 9AM EDT (UTC-4) Andrea Molinari | Rome, Italy | July 16 | 9AM EDT (UTC-4) Ernest Ikwanga | Lausanne, Switzerland | July 17 | 9AM EDT (UTC-4) Erik Deutsch | Mexico City, Mexico | July 20 | 5PM EDT (UTC-4) Aidan Thorne | Cardiff, Wales | July 21 | 9AM EDT (UTC-4) Alexander Flood | Adelaide, Australia | July 22 | 9AM EDT (UTC-4) Padraig Rynne | Dublin, Ireland | Date TBD