|
Madan Gopal Singh (b 1950, Amritsar) is an Indian composer, singer, lyricist, actor, screenwriter, film theorist, editor and knows multiple language. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi while on leave from Satyawati College (Evening Classes), where he taught English literature. Son of well-known Punjabi poet Harbhajan Singh, Madan Gopal Singh has written and lectured extensively on cinema, art and cultural history besides performing the world over as a singer with his ensemble ''Chaar yaar''. ==Overview== Singh's doctoral dissertation is the first known semiotic study of some of the seminal texts from Indian cinema – 'History as Signification – a Semiotic Study of Three Seminal Film Texts': ''Sant Tukaram'' (1936) Dir. Yaseen Fattelal and Damle, ''Pather Panchali'' (1955) Dir. Satyajit Ray and ''Meghe Dhaka Tara'' (1960), Dir. Ritwik Ghatak. He delivered the keynote address at the Third Cinema Focus Symposium as part of the Birmingham International Film Festival in 1991. He also introduced a package of films on Ritwik Ghatak and His Tradition at ICA, London with a historical perspective on Indian cinema. He also conducted a five-day workshop on Tarkovsky at the World Literature Centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He served as Executive Editor, ''Journal of Arts and Ideas'', New Delhi for nearly a decade and as a Contributing Editor, ''Cinemaya'' – the Asian Film Quarterly, for a number of years. In September 2004 he made a Lec-Dem presentation at the Intangible Heritage Seminar held in Barcelona as part of the Barcelona Dialog, Forum. In October the same year he performed at "Another Passage to India" festival held in Geneva and Zurich. In April 2005 he was invited to Lucas Artists Residency Program at the Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, California. He collaborated with the sound engineer David Fulton to do design music for the Indian artist Ranbir Kaleka's installation that was subsequently exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2005. In June 2005 he was invited to be part of a prestigious Musician Residency Program called the SOUND RES at San Cesario, Lecce, Italy. He worked with internationally known, eminent musicians such as Theo Bleckmann, David Cossin, Gregg August, David Sheppard and Luca Tarantino and gave highly successful concerts and conducted workshops with them. He conceived and designed the inaugural show of the World Book Fair, Frankfurt held in October 2006. He presented a package of films at Rio de Janeiro and Auro Preto in an International Festival, Imagem dos Povos, Brazil in November 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Madan Gopal Singh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|