About

As a guitarist and composer, I am involved in many diverse projects. Primarily,  these are compositions, arrangements, and mixed media events that are in the cross-section of diverse aesthetics, and idioms. For the convenience of mental clarity, I follow philosopher S. Eisenstadt’s theory of Multiple Modernities, which can give us a certain historical perspective on contemporary culture.

The anthropologist Ellen Dissanayake, explains the theory with these words: « The Multiple Modernities concept is a recent approach to understanding music in a culturally-decentered world.  The approach treats music globally, appreciating that from earliest times, until the invention of written scores, musicians have been composers-performers-improvisers. Therefore, musicians can become cultural pluralists, able to deeply integrate (not just “borrow”) the aesthetic sensibilities of other and different cultures .» (from Tradition and Synthesis).

To be creative today, you have to be an artistic acrobat—with your head in the West, your body in Africa, and your spirit in Asia. Singidunum Music embraces this multiplicity, bringing together diverse musical languages, traditions, and aesthetics in a world where cultures continually intersect, transform, and reinvent themselves.