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