Mark Deutsch healing soundscape of Bazantar and Butoh performance

Mission District, SF

Fri, November 1, 2024, at 6:30 PM, PDT

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Capacity: 110 of 120 spots still available
: Bring your own drinks
: Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks provided
Wheelchair access: Wheelchair Accessible
: Kid-friendly event

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A live concert in a living room, backyard, or another intimate space. They're casual and friendly, hosted by community members.

Host

Ania M.

Last weekend I had the pleasure to hearing Mark accompanying a Butoh performance on the Bazantar. Butoh is a Japanese art theater and Bazantar is a sound healing string instrument that Mark invented. It has a transcendental soundscape that opens the mind and heals the body.

Please join me at this special performance that serendipitously came together for the month of November. Just in time for the election and Thanksgiving season to get us into a zen state of mind.

As always, this will be a potluck, so bring a dish or an appetite.

About the musician:
I have been a professional musician since the age of twelve. I have a background in non-linear mathematics, sacred systems, and cosmology. I am a classically trained contrabassist and sitarist. As a performer, I have extensive experience in orchestral and world music ensembles, jazz/blues combos, and solo sitar recitals. I invented a new acoustic instrument, the Bazantar. It was awarded a patent in 1999. Since inventing the Bazantar, my main focus has been on developing the performance techniques (pedagogy) for this instrument, composing, recording, teaching, doing workshops, and lecturing on sound and music’s effects on physiology and consciousness. My latest solo album is The Picasso Tunings, a four-hour tone poem of unaccompanied Bazantar music, and my most recent film work as a featured musician is Apple TV’s Prehistoric Planet with David Attenborough, Nocturnes, a 2024 Sundance Documentary Film Festival award winner, and Water For Life, a film about indigenous water rights.
Music
I am an expert improviser, a Jazz musician who grew up playing the entire canon of American popular music in my family's combo. I am also a classically trained sitarist and orchestra contrabassist. What I do has a vast pan-cultural vibe, meditative, Avante Garde, traditional, and spiritual with elements of many cultures: European, Indian, Persian, African, Chinese, American, Japanese, and so on. I am considered an expert on different cultures' tuning systems and the underlying mathematics that makes them distinct. People typically experience what I do as a soloist as healing though sometimes, depending on the situation, exorcistic. I am flexible and have performed in a multitude of different environments. My main music instructors were Henry Loew and Carolyn White of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Ustad Imrat Khan, the world-renowned Surbahar Maestro. Everything I perform is an original composition.

What's the music?

Mark Deutsch Bazantar

Step into an evening of deep healing and artistic expression, where sound and movement come together to create a transformative experience. This unique event features a powerful collaboration between Mark Deutsch, the inventor of the Bazantar, and Martha Matsuda, a Butoh performer. The fusion of Bazantar’s transcendental soundscapes and Butoh’s evocative movements will awaken your senses and open the door to a profound healing journey. Engage in an intimate discussion with Mark about the creation of the Bazantar and its impact on physiology and consciousness. The Bazantar’s harmonics will guide you into a meditative state, promoting physical healing, emotional release, and mental clarity. Purge negative energies and step into abundance. A master of sound and music, Mark blends his expertise in sacred systems and non-linear mathematics with a deep understanding of world music. His performances are often described as healing and sometimes exorcistic, with a blend of jazz, Indian and European classical, as well as avant-garde influences. He has worked on notable projects like Apple TV’s Prehistoric Planet and the award-winning documentary Nocturnes. Also witness the avant-garde Japanese dance form of Butoh, an art born out of post-WWII Japan, exploring the shadows and light of human expression. A veteran of the Butoh movement, Martha’s performances tap into the raw, emotive power of this Japanese theater form. With decades of experience, she continues to push the boundaries of Butoh, fusing it with the haunting soundscapes created by Mark on the Bazantar. This event welcomes adults and children alike. Whether you are new to sound healing or an enthusiast, you’ll leave feeling refreshed and inspired. This intimate gathering will be held in a historic community center, once a church, where the acoustics will enhance the depth of the experience. Bring a dish or a drink for a potluck to share, as we come together not just as spectators, but as a community. This event is open to all who feel called. Let the music, movement, and conversation lead you to a place of healing and connection.

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Where does this music come from?

...both Western and Eastern classical music traditions merge and are transubstantiated through an american Jazz musicians' sensibilities of spontaneous co-creation with the sublime...

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