Hello and welcome to my web site museumofworldmusic.com my name is Graeme Gibson currently I am 32 years of age, and I have been playing music for some 13 years and in some time earlier in my childhood. My first exposure to music began with a strong passion and interest for Classical music, although I am not formally trained in this field. The basic skills in music theory taught me to recognize the pitches, notes, rhythms, rests, tempo and so on with the help of electronic musical keyboards and the aid of a musical therapist named Joannne Broduer she was instrumental (yes the pun is included) in motivating my passions in music in general.
Prior to my studies in world music my sessions in music therapy were informal although they were very helpful through out my life. I deeply enjoy learning from other musicians involved in world music, folk, jazz to experimental and avantgarde music's or those who are involved in playing, collecting, building and researching instruments and gaining from their knowledge and experience in their respective fields. I continue to learn on a daily basis my knowledge in ethnic or world music is more proficient in some areas and lacks in other areas.
Late 1990's: Through a long year of persistence with Mom and I and with the help of a friend of ours Jaron Lanier. Thanks to Jaron Lanier I and my family I was introduced to Randy Raine Reusch. My teacher Randy became both a teacher and friend in which I am deeply grateful to him. He is a persistent teacher in which has stayed teaching me through years and years since we first met. I memorized the names of the musical instruments citing things such as "dutar", "tanbur", "rebab", and "Appalachian dulcimer" and so on).
Year 2000's: I became deeply interested in the triangular body three-stringed Russian instrument the balalaika. In this brief time I studied with Mr. Bibb's Ekkel who briefly lived in the outskirts of Vancouver before he moved to England. My first song I learnt was Korobushka or "korobeyiniki" by Nikolai Nekrasov which from Russian to English is "The peddlers" this song was the chosen theme song video game "Tetris". At the time the balalaika was my first stringed instrument.
>>> My current music teachers <<<
Randy Raine Reusch: http://www.asza.com/ ~ Randy Raine Reusch: Randy Raine Reusch is my teacher for quite a while since we first had met through a mutual friend Jaron Lanier. It was largely thanks to him and those involved who "hooked me up with Randy". At first my teacher and friend Randy was a bit sceptical yet when he showed me his collection at the time. I was one of the only young kids he knew in which I was able to recite the names of the instruments, stringed instruments, plucked, and bowed and so on. Randy was quite impressed and the lessons then began and stated something among the lines "there is something there with this kid". I took that as a compliment right away and I still do to this very day too :-). In turn Randy and I remain very good friends as well as student and teacher.
Rene Hugo Sanchez: http://www.myspace.com/renehugoysusamigos - He is also a very close friend Rene and I were introduced by a friend of mine in Vancouver who knows Rene. Rene is originally from Rio De Oropeza in Peru. Both of my teachers are professional musicians yet very good ones at that too. I've learnt so much from both teachers, Rene teaches me the specific regions with in South America particularly Peru, Bolivia and pretty much the rest of South America.
Bill Laswell: http://music.hyperreal.org/labels/axiom/ - I consider my self very fortunate to which I had a unique very personal oporitunity to having met this amazing musician, producer, recording-artist when I was in NYC in year 1999, in which I went on vacation with my father. A friend of my fathers arranged the meeting.
Celso Machado: http://www.celsomachado.com/ - A very tallented instrumentalist and personal friend of mine.
Jaron Lanier: http://www.well.com/~jaron/ - This is the musician, inventor, composer who introduced me to my teacher Randy Raine reusch.
