László Hortobágyi
László Hortobágyi
László Hortobágyi (born 1950 in Budapest) is a hungarian performer of world music. He studied musicology and indology in Hungary. He has also participated in the design and building of a few organs throughout Hungary. Since 1967 he has organised and made private expeditions - in the first place - to Northern India for making recordings on the spot, studying philological-musicological sources, archives, libraries and pursuing practical studies. In the early 80's he established the musical society called "Gáyan Uttejak Mandal, its goal being to study and preserve eastern traditional music. In 1984 he founded "The Oriental Music Archives" which is unique in Middle-Europe and which operates parallel with the music studio called "Gáyan Uttejak Studio" and the "Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra" . He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Research Project of Computer Music at the Institute of Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences]]. He is a proponent of Guology and an outspoken critic against the western world's world music.
He has also made some musicological and theoretical publications.
Written Works
- Music of Hindusthan and Karnataka
- Computer Music Systems
- Virtual Memesis of the Music
- Frames of the Fictitious Societies
- A Possible Bi-tonality System
- Tala system of Hindusthan and the Alienation: Overcome of the Reality
- The "Polyphonic" Shruti System
László Hortobágyi (2007)
Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra
Modern industrial societies and their overwhelming superiority in technology and dynamic expansion are totally reorganizing the world. All traditional cultures that are alien to these technologically "homogeneous" societies are doomed to extinction. This means that there's a real possibility that traditional cultures will expire before they can enter "world-culture" circulation. Bearing all of this in mind, Lâszlô Hortobâgyi set up the "Gâyan Uttejak Society" in Budapest, Hungary 1981. Since then it has been active - among other things - as a music studio and maintains a remarkable library of oriental music.
It was named after the Hindu-Moslem musician's society founded by Navraojji Kabraji in 1870 (it was the school of the great musicologist, V.N Bhatkhande ) .The members of the Gâyan Uttejak Society and The Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra in Budapest have made it their duty practice and to study the world heritage of the traditional cultures - among them the classical Language of the Hindu-Moslem Tradition of the Hindusthani Music - but also the bioastronomy, Kathakali, songs of the whales ("whale-canto"), Tinctoris'compositions, nigromania,computed fractal engines, Raga-mala paintings, cyborgs, Kuandalini [...] etc.
Select Discography
- 6th All-India Music Conference, 1984-93
- Traditional Music of Amygdala, 1991
- The Transglobal & Magic Sounds of Laszlo Hortobagyi, 1996
- Ritual Music of Fomal-Hoot Al-Ganoubi, 2000
- Memragas from Another Twenty First Century, 2000
- Terra Dei, 2000
- Aeon, 2002
- Songs from Hungisthan, 2002
- Fata-Organa, 2003
- Summa Technologiae, 2005
External links
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