Music Stories
Tehran, folding stories in sound: Khamoosh collective on TIMEZONES
“Art is a struggle against nothingness,” says Pharoos from Hormuz. TIMEZONES, the series produced by Norient, we’ve visited before. Their planned June episode on Tehran was delayed by war. Now is a perfect time to take in its threads, woven from multiple voices in a narrative that flows gently, as if in a breeze.
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Khabat Abas of Kurdistan-Iraq talking about cellos, bombshells, silenced stories of women
Making instruments, making music overlaps directly with the issue of mapping sound to emotional experience, meaning, and orientation. Let’s listen to Khabat Abas, a musician, composer, sound artist, and instrument maker from Kurdistan-Iraq. She works directly at the crossing of so many of the issues we’ve encountered in the past months – and finds ways to make experimental cellos out of repurposed bombshells.
Peter Kirn - March 8, 2023
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A benefit in Berlin and online, with Syrian, Turkish, Kurdish, and Palestinian artists; more events
Come in person to Berlin or tune in online from anywhere all day and evening Sunday, as Refuge Worldwide joins Root Radio, RA, and Radio AlHara to send urgently-needed assistance to earthquake relief. Also on the radar: in-person efforts in Melbourne and Berlin, and we can gladly add more and more ways to give.
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