Concertwalk Re-Route 

Listen with headphones to tree inspired music on the route in Heemraadspark, Rotterdam

Inspired by the many old trees at the Heemraadspark Ishtar Bakhtali filmed several trees and improvised together with saxophone player Loek van den Berg and cellist Flavia Escartin while seeing the visual recordings of these trees. From recordings of the various music improvisations Ishtar selected three and developed them into songs. These songs can be heard at the specific trees they were inspired by. When scanning a QR-code at the tree the visitor can listen to the music with their own headphones.

Passers-by and visitors are invited to observe the trees along the route and listen as if it were the trees giving the concert. This walk is encouraging visitors to experience the Heemraadspark in a different way through listening and looking at the trees from a different perspective.

Vocals - Ishtar Bakhtali
Cello - Flavia Escartin
Saxophone - Loek van den Berg

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'Re-Route' Fractals Of Light

A short composition realized during Codarts Project week 2014 with Kemence, 2 violins and 2 electric basses. 

Bottasso Simone, composition and production

Musicians:
Mihaili Cathalina, electric bass
Harun Kaplan, kemence
Guido Nederstigt, electric bass
Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez, violin
Maxje de Wit, violin

Thanks to all the musicians and to Jelte Heringa.

Getting Lost In Bagdad

Ex Voto (cut version)

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An instrumental piece from the radîf of Shûr, sung to a poem by Hafez

Features vocals by Farhad and Farzaneh and solos on daf, and modifed drumset.

A recent recording of this piece by Ostad Lotfi and Shayda Ensemble can be found on the album “Remembering Boroumand.”

Osul

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Another famous piece (also in Dashti) by Ostad Saba (adapted from a reng by R. Mahjoubi). Saba was not only a talented composer, teacher, and multi-instrumentalist, but one of the first Iranian ethnomusicologists. During his travels (mostly in Gilan, where he founded the first conservatory of music in the early twentieth century), he collected and transcribed many folk melodies, which later made their way into his compositions.

The earliest recording of this piece is by the Iranian Radio orchestra for Golha program number 217. Other notable recordings are by masters Lotfi, Omoumi, and Farhangfar, and more recently, by Ostad Omoumi and the Tabassian brothers.

Karevan

Taken from 'I Can Be a Clay Snapper'
Order: https://goo.gl/3hCLGz
tak:til / glitterbeat

Hailing from Slovenia, Širom play vividly textured and (mostly) imagined, instrumental folk musics. Handmade and global instrumentation meets fearless sound exploration. 

Slovenia’s miniature, but incredibly diverse landscapes, echo through its distinctive cultural, historic and linguistic traits. When thinking about Širom’s geographical trajectories, as well as their musical ebb and flow, one has to consider the abundance of water that can be found in the individual regions where they come from. Cascading mountain stream lilt, lazy lowland river meandering and the mysteriously vanishing waters of Karst are most certainly inscribed into Samo Kutin’s, Iztok Koren’s and Ana Kravanja’s childhood memories and subsequently, their remarkable musical art. 

The band’s emergent sound oscillates between a wide array of acoustic folk sounds and contemporary post rock meditations, often drifting from improvisation to structured composition and then back. It is described by the members themselves as imaginary folk or folk from a parallel universe. “Our music creates emotional landscapes. When I was still painting every day (Ana holds a degree in painting) I was trying to paint my dreams but that didn’t work out,” Ana remembers. “I discovered that by using an abstract image I can draw nearer to what I felt in my dreams. Our music is based on a similar principle.”

According to Samo, the guiding concepts of their music-making are: “To play on acoustic instruments, to work with repetition and a common sound. Each of us can play a simple thing, but the overall result is that a complex thing comes to life. The quality of sound depends on the combination of the instruments and that’s why we modify and prepare instruments or create our own.”

As an avid sound-seeker, Samo began to develop an interest in building instruments out of everyday objects like drawers, computer boxes and other “junk” (as he lovingly calls his creations) as well as re-tooling the ones he brought back from his globetrotting adventures that have included personal encounters with local musicians in India, Morocco, Mali, Greece and elsewhere. 

Ana, who also nurtures a very personal relationship with music paraphernalia, adds: “There is a different attitude at play if you make an instrument yourself. It already tells you a story. If you buy it, it takes longer to get to know it, to tame it.”

In the little village of Lesno Brdo, tucked in the rolling hills ten kilometers south of Ljubljana, Ana and Samo organize music performances and festivals on a farm they rent, and divide their time between music making and vegetable farming. A close connection with nature is also important to Iztok who now resides in the capital city. “It’s a sort of a contact with the past but it also has its own life in the present.” 

Fearlessly textured sonic landscapes – both linked to and unbound by – the past and present, geography and tradition, the real and imagined. Hypnotic, otherworldly and epic. 

Širom’s music moves like the restless waters of their homeland. No matter how hushed or slow it may seem, it is never ever standing still. 
  
Širom are: Iztok Koren – banjo, three string banjo, bass drum, percussion, chimes, balafon, various objects // Ana Kravanja – violin, viola, ribab, cünbüs, balafon, ngoma drum, mizmar, various objects, voice // Samo Kutin – lyre, balafon, one string bass, frame drums, brač, gongoma, mizmar, various objects, voice

I Can Be a Clay Snapper

Širom - Maestro Kneading Screams of Joy (Maestro mane vriskanje)

Boats, Biding, Beware!

Širom - Boats, Biding, Beware! (Čolni, Čakam, Čúvaj!)

I made a collage with the sounds I created for my AV performance NEUTRO https://vimeo.com/233683491

NEUTRO - Sound Collage

Improvisation à la cornemuse du centre de la France.
Enregistré a l'église le Lancharre

The A

Vers Lucides

Fragile

I'm musician and composer from Italy. Now I live in the Nederlands where I study composition. 
I'm writing and producing many different stuffs to find out what is the sound that best represents me. 
Trying to make narrative music and constantly looking for something new

Getting Lost In Bagdad

Simone BOTTASSO