7 - 11 September 2017
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The Valley awarded Best Sound and Music
(From L to R) Cynthia Zaven, Rana Eid and Lama Sawaya
We got the award for Best Sound And Music at the Nuit Des Mabrouk! The award was handed by Christian Jeune, the Head of Cannes Film festival's film office (no less) and honored Lama Sawaya (sound designer), Rana Eid (sound supervisor) and my work on the sound and music in The Valley, the feature film directed by Ghassan Salhab.
For Voice And Forest in Argentina
22 September - 22 December 2017
For Voice and Forest, my miniature video for the monumental voice of incredible 10 year old Alexandra, will be on display within the Argentinian Biennial of Contemporary Art. Curated by Nayla Tamraz, the exhibition Poetics, Politics Places will open at the Timoteo Navarro Museum of Fine Arts in Tucumán and will include works by Saliba Douaihy, Etel Adnan, Mireille Kassar, Gilbert Hage, Nadim Asfar, Danièle Genadry, Saba Innab and myself.
Bienalsur is the first art biennial of South America that will take place in 15 countries and 30 cities across the southern continent, from September to December 2017.
For more info about the Biennial, check out the official page here
For more information about the Lebanese exhibition, check out the Facebook page here
Getting ready for Ars Electronica
Perpetuum Mobile is invited to be exhibited at the this year's fantastic edition of Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria! The 12 channel installation's new set up is the rooftop of Postcity, the main venue of the festival, opening on September 5th till September 12th.
For more info about the festival, check out the AE official page here
Perpetuum Mobile in the making (STEIM, Amsterdam, 2014)
Fête du cinéma 2017
Table ronde à l’Institut Français modérée par Benoit Basirico autour de la musique de film, et l’impact emotionnel véhiculé par une bande son.
de g à d: B. Basirico, C. Zaven, E. Aouad, K. Mouzanar
Arsenal at the Tanit Gallery
7 June - 5 August 2017
My new installation Arsenal will be on display starting today at the Tanit Gallery, part of the From Sound To Silence group exhibition.
Arsenal is a disassembled upright piano, featuring 205 strings, a soundboard, 88 hammers, 67 dampers, 56 white keys, 32 black keys and various wooden and metal parts.
88 hammers
Working the light on the dismantled piano, in front of Ziad Antar's video " La Marche Turque"
Bunker Fairy Tale and Morse Code Composition on Kunstradio
Austrian National Radio ORF will have a special focus on the Lebanese musical scene until March 19 2017. It will include an interview with a broadcast of a few of my compositions. In the framework of this focus, Kunstradio - the cultural channel of ORF - will also air a remix of Bunker Fairy Tale and Morse Code Composition (18 min).
In 1995 Kunstradio On Line was founded by artists and has since become a unique site and archive of radio-art as well as an art-project in its own right.
Perpetuum Mobile Nominated for Prix Ars Electronica 2017 / Digital Musics and Sound Art category
Performing "Room" in Dresden | 25 Feb. 2017
photo by Mia Habis
After Beirut, Istanbul and Oslo,"Room" was hosted at the infamous Festspielhaus venue in Hellerau, the garden city of Dresden. From theatre/studio building/classroom built by Dalcroze in 1911, to police academy during Nazi times, to hospital and barracks under the Soviets, the Festspielhaus is today an arts and cultural center.
The performance was part of the Mashreq to Maghreb festival curated by Mia Habis and Omar Rajeh, and features Mia Habis (dance), Øyvind Skarbø (drums) and myself on prepared grand piano.
Portrait Of A Great Aunt (10 cm x 12 cm)
My participation to Imago Mundi, the first global contemporary art collection by Benetton Foundation:
Portrait Of A Great Aunt, Constantinople. 1892 is part of the IMAGO MUNDI - MEDITERRANEAN ROUTES exhibition that opened in Palermo in February 2017. The work is printed on linen on a 10 cm x 12 cm canvas, based on a family picture.
The exhibition includes works from the 19 countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, the Lebanese collection is curated by the Beirut Art Residency.
For more information on Portrait Of A Great Aunt and the Benetton Foundation collection, please click here
From Namur to the BFI
The UK Premiere of Tramontane just took place in London with a full house at the BFI Southbank!
A beautiful screening followed by a moving and deeply engaged Q&A with the director of the film Vatche Boulghourjian and myself on the making of the film and the music, moderated by the brilliant Elhum Shakerifar. Questions revolved around the choice and origin of the songs interpreted in the film, the logistics of film and music production in a country like Lebanon, and the importance of telling this story today.
Tramontane gets awarded with the Prix Découverte in Namur!
Pink carpet at the Namur Film Festival in Belgium, right before the award ceremony
Perpetuum Mobile - setting up and opening
Opening night
Perpetuum Mobile at the Silent Echo exhibition
17 September - 15 October 2016
Setting up the installation - day 1 - the speakers will be mounted on 3.5m stands
Excited to be part of this upcoming group exhibition in no less than the historical Roman ruins of Baalbeck! The show is entitled The Silent Echo and is curated by Karina El Helou. It will feature works by Ai Weiwei, Ziad Antar, Marwan Rechmaoui, Susan Hiller, Danica Dakic, Paola Yacoub, Theo Mercier and Laurent Grasso.
I'll be presenting my 12 channel sound installation, Perpetuum Mobile, in a new setting (and music edit) inside the overwhelming Bacchus Temple. The speakers will be perched on 3.5m high black metal poles placed in a large circle. For its Baalbeck edition, the installation is being sponsored by the Baalbeck International Festival. The opening is on Saturday 17th, sound check and mix inside the venue on the 14th.
From Karlovy Vary to Pula
It's festival hopping time, from an amazing film fest in a spa town (Karlovy Vary, Czech Rep) to a fabulous film fest in a beach town (Pula, Croatia) where Tramontane was awarded the international jury's special mention!
Pula's Roman arena where the award ceremony took place
