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Halim El-Dabh

Halim El-Dabh

Halim El-Dabh has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 2 February 2016. Halim El-Dabh's music has been featured on 14 episodes.

Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh (Arabic: حليم عبد المسيح الضبع‎‎, Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍabʻ; March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian American composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who has had a career spanning six decades. El-Dabh is best known as an early pioneer of electro-acoustic music. HIs "Wire Recorder Piece" (1944), produced before the introduction of tape recorders, can be considered the very first piece of Musique Concrete. In 1950 he moved to the US where he worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, creating pieces such as "Leiyla Visitations" (1959). His early electronic work can be found on the compilation "Crossing Into the Electric Magnetic".

His 21st century music activities include performing his works with a group of KSU musicians and the String Orchestra of Alexandria at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt in 2005. He performed with prominent African musicians, including Ismael (Pops) Mohamed, in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the UNAZI ("lightening" in Zulu) conference (2005). This was the first African Electronic Music Festival in history.

In the same year El-Dabh presented "Africa meets Asia," a series of workshops that explored the encounter of African and Chinese music at The Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. While here, he also explored the idea of African pianism with Akin Euba, a distinguished African ethnomusicologist and composer. El-Dabh and Euba continued this exploration in conferences held in Cambridge, England, and St. Louis, Missouri.

In 2007 El-Dabh’s concerto “Invisible Bridge,” commemorating the Underground Railroad, was premiered in Dayton, Ohio by the Dayton Symphony Orchestra and Black American cellist Karen R. Patterson.

El-Dabh wrote "Egyptian Calypso" for “Flash In The Pan,” the KSU Trinidadian style steel drum ensemble, and has written for the KSU Orchestra and several chamber ensembles performing at KSU. He wrote “Symphony for 1000 Drums,” which was portrayed by one thousand drums in Cleveland (2006) and in Fort Collins, Colorado (2008).

El-Dabh also participated regularly in activities in the Kent, Ohio community.

www.halimeldabh.com

Publisher - C F Peters, New York City Licensed by BMI - Broadcast Music Incorporated, New York City

Pan African Studies Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44242 tel - 330 678 9118
tel - 330 319 3142

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Halim El-Dabh

Halim El-Dabh has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 2 February 2016. Halim El-Dabh's music has been featured on 14 episodes.

Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh (Arabic: حليم عبد المسيح الضبع‎‎, Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍabʻ; March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian American composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who has had a career spanning six decades. El-Dabh is best known as an early pioneer of electro-acoustic music. HIs "Wire Recorder Piece" (1944), produced before the introduction of tape recorders, can be considered the very first piece of Musique Concrete. In 1950 he moved to the US where he worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, creating pieces such as "Leiyla Visitations" (1959). His early electronic work can be found on the compilation "Crossing Into the Electric Magnetic".

His 21st century music activities include performing his works with a group of KSU musicians and the String Orchestra of Alexandria at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt in 2005. He performed with prominent African musicians, including Ismael (Pops) Mohamed, in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the UNAZI ("lightening" in Zulu) conference (2005). This was the first African Electronic Music Festival in history.

In the same year El-Dabh presented "Africa meets Asia," a series of workshops that explored the encounter of African and Chinese music at The Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. While here, he also explored the idea of African pianism with Akin Euba, a distinguished African ethnomusicologist and composer. El-Dabh and Euba continued this exploration in conferences held in Cambridge, England, and St. Louis, Missouri.

In 2007 El-Dabh’s concerto “Invisible Bridge,” commemorating the Underground Railroad, was premiered in Dayton, Ohio by the Dayton Symphony Orchestra and Black American cellist Karen R. Patterson.

El-Dabh wrote "Egyptian Calypso" for “Flash In The Pan,” the KSU Trinidadian style steel drum ensemble, and has written for the KSU Orchestra and several chamber ensembles performing at KSU. He wrote “Symphony for 1000 Drums,” which was portrayed by one thousand drums in Cleveland (2006) and in Fort Collins, Colorado (2008).

El-Dabh also participated regularly in activities in the Kent, Ohio community.

www.halimeldabh.com

Publisher - C F Peters, New York City Licensed by BMI - Broadcast Music Incorporated, New York City

Pan African Studies Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44242 tel - 330 678 9118
tel - 330 319 3142

Original source: Last.fm

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Wire Recorder Piece
Halim El-Dabh
Without Fear2000
Meditation In White Sound
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Leiyla Visitations
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Meandering Tonalities
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Not On Label2016
Aviary
Halim El-Dabh, Ron Slabe
Not On Label2016
Electronics And The Word
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Without Fear2000
Electronic Fanfare
Halim El-Dabh feat. Otto Luening
Without Fear2000
Symphonies In Sonic Vibration - Spectrum No. 1
Halim El-Dabh
Folkways Records1957
Cirrocumulus
Halim El-Dabh, Ron Slabe
Not On Label2016
The Initiation
Halim El-Dabh, Ron Slabe
Not On Label2016