The first object in Elies Miniatures I – Ein Garten singender Dinge [A Garden of Singing Things] is the 'Magnetic Field Generator'.

The sixth object of Ein Garten singender Dinge [A Garden of Singing Things] is Bouqdib's swiss motorbike licence from the 1970s.

ELSHAN GHASIMI
ELIES MINIATURES III
Die Blume und der Tod

Venue
Großer Salon Schwartzsche Villa
Grunewaldstraße 55
12165 Berlin

Date
7th Oktober 2022
8p.m. (Entry at 7:30p.m., box office at 7p.m.)
Tickets 16 € (10 €)

Participants
Elshan Ghasimi (composer & soloist)
JMH Schindele (Concept & dramaturgy)
Stark & Shakupa (staging & video)
Objects from the „El Arbi Bouqdib Archive“

Curated and produced by:

Supported by decentralized cultural work funds from

Dear friends,

The next few months are all about the sounds of classical Persian music. What strange coincidence that Cate Blanchett received the Lion of Venice for her role in the film Tár last week. Fiction and yet a story that goes close to the truth.

This autumn we have a unique highlight on the museum island in Berlin: In November and December 2022, the Iranian musician and composer Elshan Ghasimi will premiere her reinterpretation of the Radīf in the James-Simon-Galerie. A historical moment, because for the first time a woman will systematically reinterpret the 1400 years, and more, old repertoire.

In the first chapter of the composition project, Ghasimi devotes herself to the melodies of the Dastgāh-e Shur module in four concerts. The opening concert on November 10, 2022 is introduced by the renowned British music and opera critic Michael Church and the director of the Museum of Islamic Art Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber. Further concerts will take place on Thursdays at 7 p.m. on November 17th and 24th and December 1st in the auditorium of the James Simon gallery on the Museum Island in Berlin.

Before that, on October 7th, the third part of the Elies Miniatures concert cycle - the flower and death - premieres in Berlin. Since 2018, this concert series has been talking about the life of the mathematician, poet and Quran researcher El Arbi Bouqdib, who died in 2016. Using selected objects from Bouqdib's estate, the "El Arbi Bouqdib Archive", and their cinematic, literary and, above all, musical interpretation, the story of a traveler between the Orient and Occident takes shape in the concerts.

For the flower and death, the virtuoso and master of classical Persian music Elshan Ghasimi composed 19 new compositions to 19 objects from the archive and demonstrates them, accompanied by the cinematic staging of the same through Stark & Shakupa, in her performance.

To get an impression of the master of classical Persian music, you can watch the film of the director duo Stark & Shakupa above. It was created in 2021 at the exhibition Iran - art and culture from five millennia in the James-Simon-Galerie in Berlin.

ELSHAN GHASIMI
ELIES MINIATURES III
Die Blume und der Tod [The flower and death]

Venue
Großer Salon Schwartzsche Villa
Grunewaldstraße 55
12165 Berlin

Date
7th Oktober 2022
8p.m. (Entry at 7:30p.m., box office at 7p.m.)
Tickets 16 € (10 €)

Participants
Elshan Ghasimi (composer & soloist), JMH Schindele (Concept & dramaturgy), Stark & Shakupa (staging & video), Objects from the „El Arbi Bouqdib Archive“

Curated and produced by:

Supported by funds of decentralized cultural work from

Venue
Auditorium der James-Simon-Galerie
Bodestraße
10178 Berlin

Date
10th November 2022
17th November 2022
24th November 2022
1st Dezember 2022

7p.m. (Entry at 6:30p.m., box office at 6p.m.)
Tickets 16 € (8 €)

The concert series is a project and a production of Bublitz in cooperation with the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum of the State Museums in Berlin.

The concert series is funded by:

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.