Tunis Higher Institute of Music
Musical correspondences around the Mediterranean with the Instituto Cervantes.
The workshop was developed in collaboration with the teacher and researcher Ikbal Hamzaoui, working with her students of the Higher Institute of Music at the end of November 2022. After a first general presentation open to the whole institute, we worked during 4 sessions in which the students composed musical collages mixing their interests with the initial material we proposed.
The basic sound material we proposed for the workshop was the following:
- Recordings made with the participants in the previous workshop we held with the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage (IAHP) in Cordoba, and a selection of sound material from the atlas of intangible heritage of the IAPH.
- Recordings on traditional Tunisian improvisation modes that Ikbal Hamzaoui recorded during the first visit we made to prepare the workshop at the piano of the Centro de Músicas Árabes y Mediterráneas (CMAM), and a selection we made of recordings of traditional Tunisian music from the sound archive of the CMAM.
You can see here the musical pieces created and performed by the students on the day of the presentation, as well as some musical life stories they left us to share in the next workshop. The sound projects created can be explored and played with the computer keyboard at play.antropoloops.
tounsi' group
The tounsi group built their piece from a loop of Gnawa music, adding layers of (Mizwad مزود), such as the litanies of Ismaʾīl al-Ḥaṭṭāb, a Tunisian musician famous for folk art and Bedouin songs, or a fragment of a song by Hedi Donia.
teamone' group
The components of "teamone" mixed loops of Tinariwen with a fragment of Edith Piaf's "Non, je ne regrette rien", and added a fragment of the Turkish song "Hayde" by DOĞA İÇİN ÇAL 8 and of "Ederlez", a folk song of the Gypsy minority in the Balkans. In their piece they also explored a loop of the Nuba Andalusí that Gabriel Marín played in the Córdoba workshop.
Yasmine Abbes
Yasmine created a powerful techno piece from the track Anima Ft. Sheera - Moon, on which she generated several textures and rhythmic elements that she performed live with her custom device with Makey Makey. He used a very slowed down loop of a corpus carol to generate atmosphere, and another very short loop of a recording from Córdoba as a percussive element.
On top of the techno base, I mix a fragment of the piece "bahdha hbibti", which Ikbal Hamzaoui played on the CMAM piano and which we recorded on the first trip to Tunisia.
hola' group
The group "hola" mixed the recording of a jota de la Vera with three-hole flute that we made in the Córdoba workshop, with Rachid Taha's version of the song "Ya Rayah"(يارايح) which is about emigration.
To this mix they added an improvisation on the Tunisian maqam mhayer sikah that Ikbal Hamzaoui played on the CMAM piano and that we recorded on the first trip to Tunisia.
Design and development of workshops: Fran Torres and Rubén Alonso. Workshop developed in collaboration with Ikbal Hamzaoui (Tunis Institute of Music)
General coordination Instituto Cervantes: Ana Gómez Pérez
Instituto Cervantes Tunisia coordination: Germinal Gil de Gracia, Mohamed Ali El Fessi, and Isabel Monforte García.
Participating students: Aicha Gara, Ben Lamine Ranim, Dalel Ben Romdhane, Emna Madhi, Fedya Benaissa, Khalil Ben Amor, Ons Fraj, Safa Lajili, Sami Laouini, Yasmine Abbes, Yasmine Kacem, and Yossra Zoghbi.
project web: link
promoted by: Instituto Cervantes
year: 2022
