[spectre] BRUIT de BEYROUTH at De Melkweg

[nat muller]

[apologies for cross-posting]

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BRUIT de BEYROUTH

Date: Wed 19th October
Location: De Melkweg, Theaterzaal, Lijnbaansgracht 234 A, Amsterdam

Time: Performances: 20.30  - 22.30 hours
Entrance performances: €10,- (€ 8,-)
Time: Panel: 16.00 - 18.00 hours (free)

Bookings: 020 – 5318181
URL: www.melkweg.nl  (under media)
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BRUIT de BEYROUTH invites you to sample the diversity of the Beiruti 
experimental sound scene.

Music has always played an important role within the Lebanese psyche – 
artists such as Fairuz and her son composer/playwright Ziad Rahbani 
have become iconical carriers of national identity for Lebanese in 
Lebanon or in the diaspora. Mixing folklore with politics or nostalgia, 
even during the 15 years of civil strife music accompanied the 
Lebanese, and has been a significant part of cultural 
identity. Post-war Beirut as a city is now recovering – also culturally 
- from the devastations and horrors of civil war. A new generation of 
musicians, who have all grown up during the war, is now coming of age 
and experimenting with electronics and free improvisation. Firmly 
rooted within the hustle and bustle of contemporary Beirut, their music 
is fresh, attempts to rid itself from the burden and the luggage of the 
past, and tries to look ahead: from the electronic manipulations and 
drones of the Kitano Home Ensemble and Discipline, to the fragile 
vocals of Mayaline Hage and the improv of Mazen Kerbaj.
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PROGRAM: Wed 19th October

BRUIT de BEYROUTH: performance
20.30 - 22.30 hours, entrance: € 10
Discipline (laptop) & Mayalina Hage (vocals)
Kitano Home Ensemble(Marc Codsi: laptop | Charbel Haber: laptop)
A (Mazen Kerbaj: trumpet | Raed Yassin: double bass)
Tarek Atoui (laptop)


BRUIT de BEYROUTH: panel
16.00 – 18.00 hours, entrance: free
Participants: : Mazen Kerbaj (LB), Charbel Haber (LB), Joseph Ghosn 
(LB/FR), Thomas Burkhalter (CH)
Moderation:Nat Muller (NL)

URLs:
Discipline: http://www.bureaurecords.com/Menu%20Discipline/menu.htm
Those Kids Must Choke: http://www.thosekidsmustchoke.com/
Mazen Kerbaj: http://www.kerbaj.com/	and 
 http://www.zwyx.org/mill/mkcv-en.htm
Tarek Atoui: http://ilizboual.free.fr/pweb/asa.html
Thomas Burkhalter: http:// www.norient.com

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BRUIT de BEYROUTH is part of “Xeno_Sonic: Experimental Music Mapping in 
the Middle East”, a project and initiative of Nat Muller in 
collaboration with De Melkweg.

BRUIT de BEYROUTH is kindly supported by VSBfonds, Mondriaanfonds, 
Fonds voor Amateur en Podiumkunsten,Institut français des Pays-Bas - 
Maison Descartes, Fonds voor Podium-Programmering & Marketing, 
STEIM. The research phase of Xeno_Sonic was supported by The 
Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.

 
Editor’s note
For more information, visual material or interviews, contact:
Publiciteit Melkweg: Esther Lagendijk | tel: 020-5318167 | fax: 
020-5318118 | esther at melkweg.nl