Sunday,
February 25 at 7pm
The
Tabadol Project - video with live score by the Mouhktabar
Ensemble
 Tabadol
is an Arabic word
meaning “exchange”. The Tabadol Project brings together US composer
and musician Gene Coleman with Lebanese musicians and artists
Raed Yassin, Christine Sehnaoui, Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui
and Ziad El Ahmadie. For this performance they will be joined
by some of the very talented individuals from Philadelphia’s
fast rising experimental music scene, along with traditional
Arabic musicians. They will improvise with film and video projections
by Raed Yassin, and perform as the Mouhktabar Ensemble in an
excerpt from the IMA Project, a music and video composition
by Philadelphia composer Gene Coleman.
 As
part of the Tabadol Project, US composer Gene Coleman will create
a music and video composition based on the Arab Institute (IMA)
building in Paris, France (architect Jean Nouvel). The IMA Project
is one in a series by Gene Coleman that explore issues of cultural
identity and globalization, as well as music's relationship
to architecture and video. The work is in one sense a 'portrait'
in sound and vision of the interior and exterior of the IMA
building (the building itself becomes a metaphoric “score” for
the composition). In another sense, the transformation of the
architecture into the form of music and video amplifies the
concepts of synthesis and integration that are present in the
architecture. Coleman will create the video working with the
Lebanese video artist Raed Yassin and others. The music will
be played by the Mouhktabar Ensemble, which is made up of experimental
and traditional Arabic musicians from Lebanon and the USA.
The Tabadol Project is a production of Soundfield, NFP. Major
funding for the Tabadol Project is provided by The Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs
of
the US Department of State and The Kennedy Center in Washington
DC.
With
support from the Middle
East Center at the University
of Pennsylvania.
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