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Over Nine Waves

by Eby Tim Barsky
article by SF Weekly June 18, 2003

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Tim Barsky has a lot on his mind. Fortunately for him -- and for us -- he shares those thoughts in a way that makes audiences stop and take notice. Barsky combines traditional storytelling techniques, live music, and street theater with the ease of a seasoned DJ, a description that makes sinse once you realize that Barsky is a flutist and a beatboxer who has worked with disparate talents as Hasidic folklorist Fishel bresler and volcal percussionist Process. In his new collection of interwoven short stories, Over Nine Waves, the oral historian sets ancient fairy tales -- such as the age-old Irish love story of Midr and Eideen -- in modern, urban settings (the subway and the laundromat, for example). In addition to the Everyday Ensemble, a group of musicians drawn from local hip hop and klezmer communities, he's enlisted the help of special guests like beatboxer Andrew Chaikin and break dancers from the Fillmore Rocks Crew to create a genre-defying production.

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