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emburke
Hometown: San Bernardino, CA.
Role: Art Director, Clown, Composer, Director, Lyricist, Mixer, Playwright, Producer, Producer, Set Designer, Songwriter, Sound Technician, Street Performer, Hat Fitter & Haberdasher, Chef de Cuisine
Specialization: Acousmatic/Tape, Afro-beat, Americana, digital keyboard, Experimental, Folk, Funk, Fusion, Gospel, Indie, Instrumental, International, Jazz, Mashup, Opera, Showtunes, Ska, Soul, synthesizer, Cultural Arts, New Village Drinking & Wedding Music
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Hi, I'm Elliott.
I'm a music composer/ sound designer, writer, researcher and the founder and artistic director of Ishah 'El theatre arts collaborative, a non-profit, multi-cultural theatre arts organization involved in the development, education, support, promotion and production of theatre with an emphasis on faith and spirituality. I have some ambitious plans in the works that I will be revealing here and elsewhere soon: more music, writing, audio plays and podcasts of current projects. Currently I'm working on getting my website completed, updating all of these various social web sites, FUNDRAISING, and in the near future will be on several collaborative sites. I hope I find you there
I will write much more very, very soon. I promise.
Cross Pollination:
please check out some of my other sites & feel free to add yourself as a friend/ contact
Business:
Ishah 'El theatre arts: http://ishahel.org
Online Résumé: http://www.ishahel.org/resume.html
Facebook/ Ishah 'El: http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1189243941
MySpace/ Ishah 'El: http://www.myspace.com/ishah_el
linkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/emburke
Social:
Facebook/ Elliott M. Burke: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=605735380
MySpace/ Elliott M. Burke: http://www.myspace.com/elliottmburke
Pleasure:
fine spices & other curiosities - http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5170997
about foodstuffs & etc. - http://mountainofspices.blogspot.comwritings
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Activities: Writing, reading, research, music composition, theatre, drama, cultural arts & design
Favorite Music: World Music, Jazz, Bebop, Fusion, Theatre and Film; experimental, alternative types that explore new sonic territory. I love South African, Klezmer, Forro, Conjunto, Fado and Middle Eastern music, and have recently discovered and fallen in love with the music of the Pacific islands.
Favorite TV Shows: Pushing Daisies, Six Feet Under, Brothers & Sisters, Studio 60, Six Degrees, Everybody Hates Chris, History Detectives, PBS, Zoobamafoo, Fetch, Design Squad, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle & friends
Favorite Movies: Home movies...
Persepo lis, The Station Agent, Stranger Than Fiction, The Terminal, Lagaan, Amelie, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (original with Gene Wilder), The Dead, What's Up, Tiger Lily?, Charade, The Shawshank Redemption, Life is Beautiful, Saint Ralph, Freedom Writers, The Green Mile, A Very Long Engagement, The Triplets of Belleville, The Tiger and the Snow, Sullivan's Travels, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle & friends
Favorite Books: The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow, The Guide by R. K. Narayan, Color: A natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay, World Tales by Idries Shah, Jorge Luis Borges, Donald Barthelme, plays by George Bernard Shaw, David Ives & Willie Boy Shakes
Influences: My wife Cheryl, Pat Mullins, God, Jesus, George Bernard Shaw, William Shakespeare, Carla Bley, Frank Zappa, Thomas Pynchon, Blue Man Group, Cirque Du Soleil, Franco Dragone, Benoit Jutras, Zhang Yimou, Zhang Jigang, Idries Shah
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emburke's Featured Art
Remembering Aafia
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I have a matching pen and holder which I received as a gift years ago. Crudely carved of wood and coated in something resembling soft rubbery tar, it is ornamented with a pattern of brightly colored beads and small bits of mirrored glass. If you look into it you can see a mosaic portrait of yourself reflected back — one which is by design distorted and shattered into sparkling fragments. This cup and pen have taken on varying shades of symbolic meaning for me since they were given to me nearly a decade ago. Common objects have a way of becoming historically larger than life and we often miss the connection they can hold for us. Our homes are filled with such items: knick knacks, baby spoons, photographs, rocks and leaves, books and drawings. In a similar fashion we can see ourselves reflected back through the value we place on so many things which make up our lives.
I met Aafia while I was working as a sales clerk at the M.I.T. student center. She was finishing her graduate studies at M.I.T. and would often sit with others at a table in the common area offering Qurans and tracts on Islam to whoever showed an interest. While I was on my lunch break I would go out and talk with her about her faith. She was a congenial young woman who always smiled and shared freely her thoughts about theology and science, particularly creation and genetics, two subjects which to her were inextricably woven together. Not having found many non-Christians who believed in God, or the Creation, I was interested in hearing what she had to say about Islam and its perceptions of the matter. When you talk to individual believers you often don’t receive dogma or theology as much as you do a personal witness to matters of faith and hope which have been born and nurtured through experience. She could have given me a small tract or a copy of the Quran (which she did) – yet she also gave me her time and thoughts, something far more valuable and intangible than that which might be measured against historical canons and doctrines. We crossed paths frequently and she would often stop in to give me something she wrote, invite me to gatherings of Islamic friends or just to see how I was. I still have all of her material on Islam, including essays on theology and creation as well as a one act play exploring the views of an atheist and a theist about genetics.
Aafia came in one day, dressed in the traditional clothing of her country Pakistan, to tell me that she was returning home for s...More >>
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