interactive gestural arabic songs

Baidar al-Basri voice + two Wave Rings

Peter van Bergen Bb clarinet + Mi.Mu. gloves

Johan van Kreij computer

Iraqi singer Baidar Al Basra, living in The Hague, worked in a artistic research residency in multiple sessions with artistic researchers of the IOM-AIM Research, Dr. Peter van Bergen and Johan van Kreij. Topics include the transformation of gestures and musical enrichment.

In this performance Baidar will work with two Wave, wireless, sensor rings and show interactive computer music generated by Baidar's own singing and movements.

Musical starting point are songs from From Hamid al-Basri “Iraqi Popular Songs” (Hamid al-Basri) combined the Arabic improvisational solo vocal style Mawwal

Baidar will investigate whether collaboration with interactive electronics, in which gesticulation plays an important role, can add something to the meaning and expression of her performances. Data generated by sensors will be transmitted to computer software of IOM-AIM Research and should lead to simultaneity of human solo acoustic singing Mawwal and Arabic gestures, and computer music that closely matches the sound idiom in which Baidar is comfortable, to transform into a "virtual sound world" that enriches acoustic singing and can connect styles

In the performance Peter van Bergen will start improvisational dialogues with Baidar on Bb clarinet in combination with Mi-Mu gloves.

Johan van Kreij will use the computer to guide the interactivity between voice + rings, Bb clarinet + gloves and the IOM-AIM software that he and Peter van Bergen developed in Peter van Bergen’s doctorate IOM-AIM Research “Improvisation, Interactivity, Instability: Artistic Transformations” 2023.

Songs

Your heart is hard stone

Tell me what is your aim?

I nursed you Hassen

O Basil plant