Dear lovers and disappointed pantheists,

two concerts by Elshan Ghasimi (Berlin and Hamburg) and an opening by the brilliant Polish-British conceptual artist Michal Martychowiec in Berlin. We look forward to seeing you on site.

MARTYCHOWIEC December 3rd, 2021

The installation “Sous les paves la plage (1868)” by Michal Martychowiec opens at 6 p.m. on December 3, 2021, in the Chinese-German gallery HUA International. You can find information on the background to this work cycle here.

HUA International
Potsdamer Str. 81 B
10785 Berlin
Germany

GHASIMI & LEOPOLD HURT

Experience a concert by the Iranian tar virtuoso, composer and performance artist Elshan Ghasimi and the Hamburg-based composer, instrumentalist and zither artist Leopold Hurt in the vaulted hall of the MARKK. What does art music sound like that faces its multiple, hybrid influences in exile and diaspora? How do we listen to dissolve notions of the center and the periphery? Outernational is an artistic research project on trans-traditional music that presents outstanding artists in newly developed concert performances.

Information
Date 08.12.2021
Time: 19:00 - 21:00

Museum at the Rothenbaum
Rothenbaumchaussee 64 D-20148 Hamburg

Elshan Ghasimi with Ensemble Extrakte, Sandeep Bhagwati and Gebrüder Teichmann

How does music morph when it crosses listening traditions? Based on an album by Ensemble Extrakte, 4 iterative live concerts and their sound and video recordings are interwoven step by step. Following an always identical instruction score by Bhagwati, the musicians comment on, accompany, and imitate the preceding concert - before they themselves become the inspiration for the following one: as acoustic memories in the headphones of their colleagues, and as fragments and samples in the sound of the Gebr. Teichmann. The audience can hear and see how new music is created: designed but unpredictable, guided yet involuntary, rich in tensions - and in unexpected beauty. Between the concerts, renowned historian of science Hans-Jörg Rheinberger will reflect on such "iterative listening as artistic research".

Thursday, 09.12.2021 Maschinenhaus Kulturbrauerei

19:00h RESOUND 3: Concert
19:45h ITERATIONEN II: Podium conversation
20:45h RESOUND 4: Concert

Deniza Popova (voice), Ravi Srinivasan (Tabla, voice), Lucy Zhao (Pipa), Wu Wei (Sheng, Erhu), Eva Glas-macher (voice), Sören Birke (Bluesharmonika, Duduk), Elshan Ghasimi (Tar, voice), Klaus Janek (Bass), Simo-ne Heilgendorff (Viola), Claudius von Wrochem (Cello), Gregor Schulenburg (Flute, Duduk), Naoko Kikuchi (Koto)

Gebrüder Teichmann (Live-Electronic, Live-Sampling)
Anweisungspartitur (Video): Sandeep Bhagwati

Dear radio listeners,

this Thursday, after the news on SWR2, the programme Tar, SiTar, GiTarre - musical elective landscapes by Johannes S. Sistermanns will be broadcast.

It focuses on the Tar (English: String) and a portrait-like presentation of Elshan Ghasimi's artistic practice.

SWR press release

Their common origin probably goes back many millennia: the Iranian long-necked lute tar, the Indian sitar, and the guitar, which derives from the ancient Greek kithara, are definitely related to each other. Today, their playing is highly differentiated. The Persian master of the Tar, Elshan Ghasimi, represents the stringed instrument both in its tradition and in contemporary relevance.

Dear friends and critics of global connections!

After more than four years, the first parts of the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin can finally be experienced again. This weekend, the Humboldt Forum, which is quite a historical-political disaster, will be the venue for a festive event lasting several days.

We will have to discuss elsewhere, the question of whether cynicism or ignorance is more helpful in this case. On the other hand, we are happy that the Tar virtuoso Elshan Ghasimi will finally be back in Berlin for this event!

In the two-day concert installation ASED by Sandeep Bhagwati, she and her formidable colleagues of the ensemble Extrakte can be found in the Hörraum Musikethnologie on the 2nd floor of the Palace.

The installation starts at eleven a.m. and can be visited intermittently until 21:30 on Saturday and 18:30 on Sunday. If you would like to hear Elshan Ghasimi play, please visit her at the following times:

Saturday 25.9.2021

14:30 - 15:30 / 17:00 - 18:30

Sunday 26.9.2021

11:00 - 12:30

Admission is free, but a time slot ticket must be booked.

Wishing you enjoyable autumn days and a good aegis for the new chancellor,

Julian Malte Hatem Schindele

Berlin, 9th of September 2021

Dear friends of real fantasy characters,

After a heathen's work I may report that the first two chronicles of GABRIEL are available. These publications record the years of the pilgrimage WEG, from its dawn on the 15th of September 2015 in the Netherlands, until the third part of the cycle Marian Antiphons on the 7 th ofAugust 2019 in Fátima, Portugal.

"Images, memories, experiences, dangers, strength, pain, God, world, love, fear, loss, retreat, search, nature. "

Because this is such a joyful occasion, we would like to raffle off five copies of the publication, which is not commercially available, among our audience.

To take part in the draw, please click on the button and enter your email address or simply reply to this circular with a blank email.

Winners will be chosen at random on Sunday the 19th of September and contacted separately.

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If you want to learn more, you can find a completely revised visualisation of the GABRIEL story on the website.

Have fun and good luck!
Gabriel and JMH Schindele

7th of August 2019. An offering of flowers to the Mother of God during the performance Marianische Antiphonen at the Marian pilgrimage site of Fátima, Portugal.

3rd of January 2016. Gabriel's first performance after 110 days of wandering: Eterno Retorno – The three Gates in Santiago de Compostela.

Dear friends, we invite you to the exhibition opening of Michal Martychowiec at the project space Nadan / BERLIN this very evening.

It starts at 7 pm!

Michal Martychowiec

Suffer nothing to remain outside

Torstr. 138
10119 Berlin

more information

Elshan Ghasimi
Jeremias Schwarzer
Johannes Fischer & Concerto Köln

TAFELMUSIK

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln
28 August, from 1 pm

Click here for the live broadcast of the concert

Dear friends of the muses,

after a long, busy silence, we are pleased to announce the next public event, a concert by Elshan Ghasimi in Cologne.

The Persian classical musician and composer, the percussionist and composer Johannes Fischer and the idea man and baroque flutist Jeremias Schwarzer will premiere as soloists with a new programme at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne on 28 August. They will be accompanied by Concerto Köln, an orchestra specialising in historical performance practice of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

The programme is called 'Tafelmusik'; concept, space, video and art direction are provided by Folkert Uhde, Ilka Seifert is responsible for the dramaturgy. An amalgam of historical figures and traditions.

We wish everyone a wonderful feast. From 1 p.m., for about three hours in the Stifter Hall of the museum. Admission is free.

Julian Malte Hatem Schindele

PERFORMERS / CONTRIBUTORS

Elshan Ghasimi tar, composition

Jeremias Schwarzer recorder, musical conception, idea, artistic direction

Johannes Fischer percussion, composition

Members of Concerto Köln

Lea Schwamm violin

Tristan Braun violin

Aino Hildebrandt viola

Alexander Scherf violoncello

Michael Dücker lute

Markus Märkl harpsichord

Folkert Uhde concept, space, video, direction

Ilka Seifert dramaturgy

PROGRAM

Works by Georg Philipp Telemann, Henry Purcell, Ali Akbar Khan, Johannes Fischer, Elshan Ghasimi and others as well as improvisations

PRESS RELEASE OF THE KÖLNER PHILHAROMNIE ON THE FESTIVAL

"FELIX!" is the name of the Cologne festival for historical performance practice. What is behind it? In the Kölner Philharmonie, among other venues, numerous internationally renowned artists dedicate themselves to the music of times long past. On original instruments and with knowledge of the playing practices of the time, they bring the sound of the past into the present and, in combination with contemporary compositions and immersive sound designs, make it fit for the future. In doing so, they not only dedicate themselves to the music of the European Baroque, but also go on long journeys to far-flung musical cultures. On 28 August, "FELIX! urban" will be a full day of music with free admission.

See the entire program of the festival: https://www.koelner-philharmonie.de/en/festivals/felix/205