#ctm 2016

With:

Ah! Kosmos https://vimeo.com/125137678

Pole https://vimeo.com/140103965

and Floating Points https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWys8N4Qva0

https://vimeo.com/137144369

https://vimeo.com/130266651

Jerusalem In My Heart is a live audiovisual performance project with Lebanese-born Canadian producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and filmmaker Charles­ André Coderre at its core. A fixture of the Montreal independent music community from his early days, Moumneh is also active in the Beirut and Lebanese experimental music scenes, bringing influences from both into Jerusalem in My Heart. Through the project, which takes its name from a civil-war period album by the beloved Lebanese singer, Fairouz, Moumneh attempts to forge a modern experimental Arabic music that weds evocative singing in classical Arabic modes to electronic compositions. Together with Coderre’s hand­made visuals using analogue 16mm film and slide projectors over a multiple screens, the artists create an immersive sonic and visual live experience.

“Throughout past and present, trance rituals and spiritual journeys have perhaps served as the most powerful methods of detaching us from the material in order to communicate and chase new worlds where all borders are dissolved. CTM 2016’s Opening Concert unites two explorations of how to reach the unbound.

With “Híbridos”, wanderer, independent filmmaker and sound researcher Vincent Moon, previously announced with an installation that will be on display all festival week at HAU2, creates a portrait of a contemporary Brazil as a laboratory of cultures, suggesting a path of coexistence and open geography. Through a lecture and screening of his transmedia project created with photographer, writer and director Priscilla Telmon, Moon explores what people who didn’t break their connection with planet earth, or are going back to that connection, have to tell us as a new way of living together via a cine-trance of emotions, words, gestures, silences, and intuitions.

CTM guest co-curator Rabih Beaini then premieres “For The Right Red Hand”, a work especially composed for CTM that divides an ensemble of eight instrumentalists into two mirroring groups of trumpet (Liz Allbee, Mazen Kerbaj), guitar (Sam Shalabi, Sharif Sehnaoui), drums (Daniele De Santis, Tommaso Cappellato), and voice (Sofia Jernberg, Rully Shabara). Although identical in instrumentation, the two groups at times create opposing and conflicting counterpoints, tensions, and uneasy coexistence. Through barely audible tones, repetition, and extended techniques, this interplay of standpoints is punctuated and gradually enhanced by Beaini at the mixing desk, reaching a cohesive, open geography of human spirit”