Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch - Inner Spaces (Fire Museum Presents)

Presented in Collaboration with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture

Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch: Inner Spaces

Trumpeter, santur player, vocalist, and composer Amir ElSaffar joins electronics performer and composer Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch in a new project exploring electro-acoustic spaces, maqam, microtonal harmonies, and improvised and composed structures in a modular musical composition that accommodates a variety of musical styles across genres. Together, they create an immersive sound that transcends notions of form, musical language, electronic, and acoustic categories in music. This new work will be a modular composition combining pre-determined structural elements with freely improvised sections, played live by ElSaffar and Bianchi-Hoesch. The work will explore electro-acoustic spaces in a microtonal environment that embraces the sonic spectra of multiple musical languages.

Bianchi-Hoesch and ElSaffar are interested in creating a trans-cultural collaboration combining jazz, contemporary classical music, maqam, raga, and other musical backgrounds, inclusive of all the richness, complexity, and idiomatic expression,…