Cantor Arts Center presents Forms & Frequencies, a Thursday night music series featuring musicians and sound artists from the Bay Area and beyond, with special evening hours for audiences to visit exhibitions on view.

Join us on Thursday, December 4 in Cantor’s auditorium for a performance by Sheherazaad, whose contemporary folk-pop synthesis joins a new wave of South Asian diasporic soundscapes. Sheherazaad gleans from Western classical and South Asian sonic lineages, with contemporary voicing that may be described as alternative folk or experimental ballad. Sheherazaad’s original lyricism modernizes certain existing Hindi-Urdu poetic forms, channeling questions of displacement, mother tongue, imagined homelands, and beyond.

Creative Work Fund premiere ft.

Roopa Mahadevan & Sruti Sarathy

Amaan Ali Khan, sarod

Ayaan Ali Khan, sarod

Amit Kavthekar, tabla

Carnatic Duet

Ambi Subramaniam, violin

Creative Work Fund premiere ft.

Roopa Mahadevan & Sruti Sarathy

The Alaya Project is the essential bridge between the intricate Carnatic style of Indian classical music and contemporary jazz and funk. Born in the cultural bastion of Oakland, California, The Alaya Project explores new textures and perspectives built over two decades of friendship, dialogue, and musical immersion across genres and continents. The driving hybrid kit grooves of Indian percussionist and drummer, Rohan Krishnamurthy, the soulful Ragas and melodies of Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone, and the harmonic bedrock of Colin Hogan embodies the permanence of a changing soundscape.

Collaboration with Vidita Kanniks & Pegasus Early Music Ensemble.

Rochester

Ithaca

Syracuse

Roopa Mahadevan, voice
Sruti Sarathy, violin

For details, visit Montalvo Arts Center.

Aditya Prakash, voice

Sruti Sarathy, violin

Arjun Verma, sitar
Anirudh Bharadwaj, flute

Oakland Asian Cultural Center

Carnatic Duet with Sruti Sarathy, violin.

For details, visit Rootstock Arts.

The Alaya Project

For details, visit DROM.

The Alaya Project is the essential bridge between the intricate Carnatic style of Indian classical music and contemporary jazz and funk. Born in the cultural bastion of Oakland, California, The Alaya Project explores new textures and perspectives built over two decades of friendship, dialogue, and musical immersion across genres and continents. The driving hybrid kit grooves of Indian percussionist and drummer, Rohan Krishnamurthy, the soulful Ragas and melodies of Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone, and the harmonic bedrock of Colin Hogan embodies the permanence of a changing soundscape.

The Alaya Project

For details, visit Morris Museum.

The Alaya Project is the essential bridge between the intricate Carnatic style of Indian classical music and contemporary jazz and funk. Born in the cultural bastion of Oakland, California, The Alaya Project explores new textures and perspectives built over two decades of friendship, dialogue, and musical immersion across genres and continents. The driving hybrid kit grooves of Indian percussionist and drummer, Rohan Krishnamurthy, the soulful Ragas and melodies of Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone, and the harmonic bedrock of Colin Hogan embodies the permanence of a changing soundscape.

L. Subramaniam, violin
Tanmoy Bose, tabla

Swami Vivekananda’s 125th anniversary to the Bay Area.

For details, visit San Jose Theaters.

Apoorva Krishna, violin

Ganesh Rajagopalan, violin

Tejendra Mazumdar, sarod

The Alaya Project

For details, visit Blackcat Jazz Club.

The Alaya Project is the essential bridge between the intricate Carnatic style of Indian classical music and contemporary jazz and funk. Born in the cultural bastion of Oakland, California, The Alaya Project explores new textures and perspectives built over two decades of friendship, dialogue, and musical immersion across genres and continents. The driving hybrid kit grooves of Indian percussionist and drummer, Rohan Krishnamurthy, the soulful Ragas and melodies of Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone, and the harmonic bedrock of Colin Hogan embodies the permanence of a changing soundscape.

The Alaya Project

The Alaya Project is the essential bridge between the intricate Carnatic style of Indian classical music and contemporary jazz and funk. Born in the cultural bastion of Oakland, California, The Alaya Project explores new textures and perspectives built over two decades of friendship, dialogue, and musical immersion across genres and continents. The driving hybrid kit grooves of Indian percussionist and drummer, Rohan Krishnamurthy, the soulful Ragas and melodies of Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone, and the harmonic bedrock of Colin Hogan embodies the permanence of a changing soundscape.

Mythili Prakash, bharatanatyam
Ananya Ashok, voice
Rohith Jayaraman, voice

Indo-Jazz Trio

Prasant Radhakrishnan, saxophone

Eric Vogler, bass

For more info, visit SFIAF.

The Alaya Project

For details, visit Tenderloin Museum.

The Alaya Project is the essential bridge between the intricate Carnatic style of Indian classical music and contemporary jazz and funk. Born in the cultural bastion of Oakland, California, The Alaya Project explores new textures and perspectives built over two decades of friendship, dialogue, and musical immersion across genres and continents. The driving hybrid kit grooves of Indian percussionist and drummer, Rohan Krishnamurthy, the soulful Ragas and melodies of Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone, and the harmonic bedrock of Colin Hogan embodies the permanence of a changing soundscape.

Carnatic Concert

Prasant Radhakrishnan student arangetram, saxophone

Collaboration with beatboxer Bryan Dyer and Latin Percussionist Javier Navarrette.

Varun Pattabhiraman, mridangam

Rootstock Arts

Labonee Mohanta, kathak
Colin Hogan, piano

Live at Ohlone College