Urban Acoustic Tribe

Urban acoustic tribe reflects on music as transcultural space and focuses on tradition and appropriation of european and arabic music. Exploring artistic practice beyond the scope of world music, the festival features artists crossing borders of different music traditions and genres. A unique tray of concerts, performances and discourse challenges the perspectives of contemporary music practice. The festival starts on 23rd at ACUD Studio, followed by a second part at the 24th and 25th at Villa Elisabeth.
 
TIMETABLE
 
20H CORNELIA LUND/HOLGER LUND music/video lecture
21H30 THE LIZ concert/performance
 
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ABOUT
 
CORNELIA LUND/HOLGER LUND: STYLE AND SOCIETY — ISTANBUL'S MUSIC SCENE IN THE 1960S AND 1970S: MUSICAL HYBRIDISM, THE GAZINO, AND SOCIAL TOLERANCE
Like many countries, Turkey was hit by the wave of Anglo-American pop-rock music in the 1950s and 1960s. This led to the birth of Anatolian Rock, Arabesk, and Belly Dance. The specific qualities of these styles seem to be rooted in the unique situa- tion of the Turkish music scene. This had to do with the people involved: they mixed and mingled, ignoring social boundaries to a surprising extent, producing musical syntheses consisting of unpredictable combinations. The main place for this kind of musical practice was the gazino, a special venue, with its open-minded musical programming. This lecture examines the acting agents and their styles. Although each addressed a very different audience, the styles were freely com- bined, for example in Arabesk Rock as a mixture of Anatolian Rock and Arabesk. How could these hybrids be created, despite of the music-sociological paradoxes in style and audience? It seems there was a special Turkish pop-rock logic at work, which had the gazino at its heart. // Homepage
 
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THE LIZ
In her new production, The Liz tells the story of transformations and multiples: a maiden Sphinx, Anubis the dog of death, and Oedipus, as narrated by Kathy Acker. Drawing from traditional Greek myth, as well as Cocteau’s ‘Infernal Machine’ and Acker’s ‘Blood and Guts in High School’, The Liz translates the riddles of the Sphinx into an engine for the musical re-production of resistance, and of subliminal and mythic resonance. // Homepage
 
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URBAN ACOUSTIC TRIBE
Friday, 23.9.2016, ACUD studio
Doors: 20H
Admission: 6-10€