Music on a Whim presents Asifeh + Maya Al Khaldi’s Boka’yat reLived + Sergei Demin + Rouzbeh Shadpey
Address – NASHAZ , Rue Picard 3, 1000 Bruxelles
Doors – 7 30 pm
Tickets – €12 pre-sales; €15 OTD
Asifeh – Hip-Hop/Arabic/Electronic
Asifeh (also known as Stormtrap) is a producer/rapper based between Vienna and Ramallah. His music consists of rap vocals, sampled material, and original compositions using modern and abandoned technologies. He is co-founder of the former Ramallah Underground collective, who laid the foundations for a booming underground music scene in Palestine, active during the years 2003 – 2009
Maya Al Khaldi presents Boka’yat relived – Folklore / Voice / Mourning
Boka’yat reLived is a live performance of a work-in-progress by Maya al Khaldi, where she sings Morning Songs, a dying Palestinian tradition. Maya composes melodies for otherwise unknown songs found in books and archives, in order to mourn the loss of the past few years and experiments by attempting to attach an imagination to a future of a tradition that was once essential in the process of mourning and grief in Palestine.
Sergei Demin – Speech synthesis / Drone / Sound design
Sergei Demin is a Siberian-born, Netherlands-based (Gelderland) multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound design, technology and experimental music. He focuses on the ‘weirdness’ of synthetic voices and the ‘un-human’ quality of modern communication. In his current practices he’s mixing human history and machine future by bringing a medieval instrument Hurdy-Gurdy and ‘uncanny valley’ voices of text-to-speech engines together.
Artwork by the evergreen Andrea De Franco
