Hora di Gitar composed by me…
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featuring:
Berlin Klasik Türk Müzigi Dernegi (our Turkish Classical Choir here in Berlin)
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Istanbul Sazendeleri…
Yurdal Tokcan (ud)
Göksel Baktagir (kanun)
Emrullah Senguller (violoncello)
Selim Guler (kemençe)
Bekir Ünlüataer (featured solo vocalist)
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Date: Saturday, March 6, 2010
Time: 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Location: RBB Großer Sendesaal
Street: Masurenallee 8-14, 14057
City: Berlin, Germany
http://www.bktmd.de/
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This is the Turkish choir that I have been playing with (I’m one of the ud players) in Berlin since October, 2008. Typically we perform our big concerts two times per year. We are happy to be joined by the master musicians from Istanbul, TR for these big concerts. The level of musicianship and quality that they bring to the stage is phenomenal and always a learning experience for me. As always I’m eagerly awaiting.
It’s been almost two years since my big switch from using Apple OS-based computers to open source operating systems based on Linux. I had used Apple computers since the late 80s and was easily a fan. Fun, practical and easy to use, my machines were workhorses that I drove into the ground. I only upgraded to new machines if I needed some more power for bigger projects but I did manage to do lots of recording, produced my first CD all by myself on a Powerbook and coded lots of websites, made a few CD covers, etc.
However a switch to Linux was a long time in the making: by nature I love to tinker with things (bikes as a kid, electronic instruments as a teen. Never really did…anything…just sort of took things apart and put them back together) so, checking out Linux was bound to happen. After some invaluable help from my friend Andreas I had a Debian distribution up and running on an old Apple iBook. Two years later I’ve kicked out the Apple machines and now use various machines around the house for different tasks, one of which is watching TV 
Hopefully I’ll be writing more details but for now I’d just like to mention that my favorite distribution at the moment is from Mint, a distro built off of Ubuntu (which in turn was built off of Debian which in turn was built off of blah blah blah)…
http://www.linuxmint.com
It’s seriously well done and just awesome, everything works out of the box for me.
I haven’t made any updates to my adamgood.com website for a couple years by now and thought it might be interesting to try a blog format for a change. I hope to have as much of the content as before: gig schedules, info about CDs and plan to add some tutorials for who knows what…Linux, Mythtv, Lilypond, Turkish Makam and Turkish Ud tips that I’ve learned and are worth sharing.
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