Instruments:
Tar, Dotar, Kamancheh, and Barbat
Biography:
Homayoon
Beigi has been conducting research in acoustics for over 30 years and has studied and taught the physics of sound at Columbia University for over 25 years. He also studied music theory with the late Maestro Gregory H. Aslani, along with collaborations with that G.H. Aslani in the composition of a fusion work with three incarnations, featuring the contemporary composition of G.H. Aslani and Homayoon's Persian compositions and arrangement in Chahargah and Shur. Homayoon has been working on the theory and practice of introducing 24-tet microtonal harmony to melodies derived the Persian classical repertoire. He studied the Persian
Kamancheh
with the
late maestro, Andranik Aroustamian, from 1983 to 1993. From
1993 to 1995 he studied the classical Persian etudes of
Mirza Abdollah
for the Tar under Reza Derakhshani. He has also self-studied the
Persian Dotar in the style of late Maestro Haj Ghorban Soleimani
since 1996. He has performed in many Persian classical and fusion venues
including several appearances at Columbia
University, Adalphi University, Symphonyspace, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and the
Bowery Poetry Club.
His fusion work has involved Persian classical music with North Indian (Hindustani) Music
(Tar and Dotar with Sitar and Tabla), South Indian (Carnatic) Music
(Kamancheh with Mridangam and Voice), Persian popular
oldies (Tar with Voice) and Contemporary American Music (e.g.,
George Gershwin on Tar with Voice), in collaboration with the
American Suprano Singer, Monika Jalili.
In 1995 and 1996 he
won two consecutive Adventurous System and Software Research
awards, while working at IBM Research, for the development of a
paper-like interface using a tablet PC for entering and editing musical notation on a computer, utilizing pen-gestures and handwriting
recognition technology. Dr. Beigi earned his BS (1984), MS (1985), and PhD (1991) from the mechanical
engineering department of Columbia University. He worked at
IBM TJ Watson Research
Center for ten years (1991-2001) and since 2001 he has been the President
of Recognition
Technologies, Inc., conducting research on
Speaker, Face, and speech Recognition. He has been an
adjunct professor in the departments of
Computer Science,
Mechanical Engineering, and
Electrical Engineering and has supervised PhD students in Civil Engineering at
Columbia University
since 1995.
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