Morgenland Festival Osnabrück: SABA ALIZADEH & PIETRO CARAMELLI

In the organizer's words:

With Rituals of the Last Dawn, the Iranian composer and musician Saba Alizadeh and the Italian experimental artist Pietro Caramelli present their latest joint work: a haunting sound ritual that interweaves elements of electro-acoustic composition, ambient and experimental improvisation.

Saba Alizadeh, son of the world-famous tar virtuoso Hossein Alizadeh, studied experimental sound art at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). His artistic and scientific work deals with the concept of silence in musical, historical and socio-political contexts. As a virtuoso player of the Persian knee violin Kamanche, Alizadeh is deeply rooted in Iranian classical music and at the same time continuously expands its tonal and expressive possibilities.

In Rituals of the Last Dawn, Alizadeh combines his sonically open, atmospheric structures with Caramelli's work on prepared guitar, modular synthesizers and live processing. Together they create a fragile yet powerful musical dialog that dissolves the boundaries between composition and improvisation, between man and machine, between memory and the present. The sound becomes a space, listening becomes a shared moment of perception and reflection.

For all those experiencing Alizadeh and Caramelli for the first time: You can expect an atmospheric, cinematic and emotionally intense evening in which silence and resonance have equal importance - and music is not only presented, but can be experienced as a ritual.

Saba Alizadeh - Kamanche

Pietro Caramelli - electric guitar, electronics