Structures Node 1: Global Alchemy Global Alchemy

Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin

13 Haz 2009
14 Haz 2009

Structures Node 1: Global Alchemy is a two-day event to explore raw sounds from unexpected corners of the world and to reflect on musical transformations induced by processes of globalization. Experience street-level folk pop from Syria, unfiltered electric guitar music from the Western Sahara, and other hybrid, rarely recognized street musics from around the southern and eastern hemispheres. Cut through the boundaries of "us" and "them" with the first ever Sublime Frequencies tour featuring concerts by Omar Souleyman and Group Doueh, DJ-sets by Sublime Frequencies, and with films, talks and discussion.

Enlarge

Structures Node 1: Global Alchemy - Flyer

Starting from Sublime Frequencies’s unique work, Structures Node 1: Global Alchemy looks at the socially transformative power of music developing in a constant, globe-spanning process of exchange, amalgamation, imitation, theft and appropriation. And at the musical and political frictions that arise from encounters of traditional music and globalized pop, of folk purism and the cacophony of modernity, of north and south, east and west. What’s the situation for musicians in countries with less economic power and unequal distribution of the means to access? And what’s the status quo of musical diversity where an increasingly homogenized global market place collides with folk music as a highly diversified everyday life practise? These and other questions will be debated in-depth on the second day of the two-day program:

Saturday June 13 – Concerts & Film

OMAR SOULEYMAN (Syria)
GROUP DOUEH (Western Sahara, Marocco)
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES (DJ-sets by Alan Bishop, Mark Gergi)
Film: MUSICAL BROTHERHOODS FROM THE TRANS-SAHARAN HIGHWAY, by Hicham Mayet

Sunday June 14 – Film, Talk, Discussion

Film: PALACE OF THE WINDS, German premiere of the new film by Hicham Mayet
Talk: MUSIC FORM THE BACKYARD MELTING POTS
An introduction to Sublime Frequencies, with Alan Bishop, Mark Gergis, Hicham Mayet and guests
Lecture: ETHNOPSYCHEDELIA by Marcus Boon
Discussion: BREAKING THROUGH CONSENSUS REALITY
With Sublime Frequencies, Noureddine Ben Redjeb, Marcus Boon, Moderation: Johannes Theurer

More information on clubtransmediale.de