Picture credits: © Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Stefanie Loos
ALI HASAN
MUSICIAN PERFORMER & CURATOR
a percussionist with Syrian roots, a passion for innovation, and a sound that defies boundaries.
He has performed across Europe, AT TOP VENUES in Berlin including the Humboldt Forum, Berliner Philharmonie, and in Radial system for Dabke Community Dance by Sasha Waltz & Guests.
Blending traditional Middle Eastern rhythms with modern Western beats, Ali creates a sound that is truly his own – electrifying, dynamic, and unforgettable
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Ali’s journey is indeed very special; in this video he does not only talk about his difficult experience fleeing his home country Syria in 2015 to get to Germany, but he also shares with us his personal journey to finding himself through music, a medium that transcends places, time and borders. His passion for music and dance created a deep playground for him to experiment into the contemporary artistic world and explore the harmonic relationship between movement, body, and tunes, the action and the reaction between dance and music, and in the emotional sensitivity of the rhythm. Ali’s journey is a message for hope, resilience and peace.
Pulsar Collective is a band of multi-instrumental live-looping artists that create a unique and exciting new sound between electronic beats, acoustic instruments and live vocals – all improvised and emerging from spontaneous creativity. With the courage to venture into the unknown, the group leaves behind widely propagated perceptions of perfection and instead focuses on the playful and wild musical interaction on stage and with the audience. They take their listeners on a journey through organic, psychedelic techno and house tracks, and inspire with characteristic reinterpretations of their favorite folk and pop culture anthems. The music in this video is accompanied by instruments like drum-machine, microtonal electric guitar, chromatic kalimba, oriental darbuka, bamboo saxophone as well as custom-made synthesizers and voice effects.
BORDERLESS Ep.3 — Artists
The Humboldt Forum’s previous guises have always been associated with music: hymns in the medieval monastery; baroque concerts in the Berlin Palace; military marches in imperial times; socialist songs in the Palace of the Republic. What kind of music would be a good fit for today’s Humboldt Forum: a new meeting point for different cultures and people, objects and discourses? This is where the Resident Music Collective comes in. Several times a year, musicians from local communities come together to improvise and make music on instruments from their respective traditions: be it a kamanche from Iran, a balafon from West Africa, a cuatro from Venezuela, a frame drum from Syria, or the world’s first ‘contact-free’ instrument, the theremin. How do these instruments sound together in concert? Come and hear for yourselves, live at the Humboldt Forum. Stay tuned for upcoming dates!
