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This evening will see the final events of 2013’s Sharjah Biennial, with Tarek Atoui, Hasan Hujairi & Lagash.

Lebanese musician and performance artist Tarek Atoui will be on stage with students from Al Amal School for the Deaf.

Below 160 is the second collaboration between the students of Al Amal School and Tarek Atoui. The sound spectrum of this performance is reduced to bass frequencies below 160hz and used as compositional material to generate precise vibrations. Sound approached as vibrations becomes a concrete and universal form of discourse beyond language, music and audible forms of communication.

Bahraini musicologist and composer Hasan Hujairi will perform
music for handmade electronics, laptop, and electric oud.

Hasan Hujairi is a sound artist and independent researcher. His sound-art performances and installations, which have been presented internationally, build on his academic background in historiography and ethnomusicology. He has participated in residencies at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul, South Korea; STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; anujairid the Red Bull Music Academy in London, UK. He was previously the curator at Al-Riwaq Art Space in Adliya, Bahrain, and is currently pursuing his PhD in Music Composition and Conducting at Seoul National University’s College of Music.

Iraqi German ensemble Lagash will give a concert.

Led by composer Saad Thamir, this chamber-music ensemble features Thamir on percussion and vocals, Bassem Hawar on djoze, Christina Fuchs on clarinet and bass clarinet, and Jarry Singla on piano. Lagash seeks to add a new dimension to Oriental music, fascinating audiences with complex and seductive melodies, melancholy harmonies, surprising rhythms and great precision. Much of this richness is drawn from the centuries-old Maqam tradition, a melodic system in classical Arabic music that is based on specific note combinations. As in Western music traditions from Baroque to jazz, the music of Lagash contains composed as well as improvised elements. Thamir and Hawar are originally from Iraq, where they taught composition, piano and violin at the Baghdad Institute of Fine Arts. In exile, they joined forces with Fuchs and Singla, award-winning musicians in Germany. The name Lagash comes from a southern Mesopotamian town and was chosen as a homage to this five-thousand-year-old Sumerian culture.

Location: Posted on: Thursday, May 9th, 2013
 

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