Hybrid sound spaces
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| 10 € / reduced 5 € |
| Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the Foyer. |
| Duration: 90 min |
| 12 years and older |
| English, German |
| 2nd Floor, Room 217 |
| Belongs to: Ethnological Collections and Asian Art |
Together with the audience, Omar Sadik and Uli Eberhardt will embark on a tour through various musical traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, and South and Central Asia. Using anthropological, historical, and of course musicological approaches, they want to explore different musical styles and instruments. Omar Sadik and Uli Eberhardt will demonstrate how musical culture is more than melodic charm or a means of aesthetic pleasure – music has been a way of forging and dismantling divisive identities throughout modernity, and it has simultaneously been a universalizing culture of resistance against identities of division.
When discussing these dynamics, they also want to bring in some theoretical frameworks from current cultural anthropology, in particular, shining a light on diverging viewpoints from postcolonialism, materialism, and theories of hybridity.
The tour will include live demonstrations and performances of select instruments by the guides.
Participants
Omar Sadik has been studying sociology and anthropology for over ten years. In his youth, he roamed the underground music scene of his hometown, San Francisco. In 2011, he moved to Istanbul and began learning the local music soon after.
Uli Eberhardt has a degree in Anthropology and Comparative Religion. As a musician, he has been studying modal traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East extensively for the past eight years.