Ali Hasan
Musician
"Unleashing Melodies, Illuminating Souls:
Rhythmic Renaissance"
ALI HASAN
MUSICIAN
“Ali, a Berlin-based musician and artist originally from Damascus.
His artistic journey has been shaped by training under the guidance of distinguished figures in music, dance, and movement, including the likes of Sasha Waltz, Grandmaster Shi Yan Lin, and Master Mohammad Reza Mortazavi. Ali’s dedication to his craft led him to become a former student of the ‘Berlin Handpan Academy’ and the ‘Groove’ private institute for tempo and percussion in Syria.
As a multi-talented artist, Ali’s percussion skills shine brightly both as a soloist and as part of ensembles like the Resident Music Collective in Humboldt Forum, the Pulsar Collective and DABKE community dance. His rhythmic prowess has graced international programs and festivals across Germany and Europe, captivating audiences with his mesmerising performances.
In addition to his musical endeavours, Ali is also an artistic curator and co-founder of BAYNATNA, the Arabic Library in Berlin, a project that received prestigious awards in 2020 for its unique contribution to the cultural landscape such as THE POWER OF THE ART and ACTIVE FOR DEMOCRACY AND TOLERANCE. His passion for promoting culture and the arts doesn’t stop there; Ali works as a music curator and performer at Humboldt Forum for the Resident Music Collective, where he continues to foster artistic dialogue and collaboration.
Ali’s dedication to his craft has not gone unnoticed. He was honoured with a scholarship from Sasha Waltz & Guests as part of the ‘Weltoffenes Berlin – Artist at Risk’ support program, a testament to his exceptional talent and commitment to the arts.
With an impressive journey behind him and a promising future ahead, Ali continues to leave an indelible mark on Berlin’s cultural tapestry, inspiring both audiences and fellow artists alike.”
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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.
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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!
Musician
علي حسن، هو عازف إيقاع، ومؤلف موسيقي سوري، وفنان مقيم في منتدى هومبولت في العاصمة برلين، يضيف، خلال حديثه مع رصيف22، أنّ “الانفتاح الهائل، وأماكن الموسيقى الكثيرة، وأنماط الموسيقى المختلفة التي تأتي من العالم كله، إلى برلين، والتي بدورها تقدم ملاذاً آمناً، ومساحة ملهمة كبيرة للموسيقيين/ ات، كي يختبروا/ ن الموسيقى، تسمح لي بإنتاج موسيقى تشبهني”
Die Musik ist die Sphäre, in der ich mein Selbst und meine Wahrheit verteidige
“Las fronteras no tienen sentido, la música sí. A través de la música puedes conectar sunitas y chiitas, cristianos y musulmanes. El mundo de los ritmos es seguro”
As Hasan started beating the drums faster and harder the participants, mostly German but also Spanish, American, and Polish, began easing into the dance
in 2020 Baynatna & FANN – The Arabic language library of Berlin, WIR MACHEN DAS / wearedoingit e. V. wins the
「Ali」。辿りついたベルリンは、彼が奏でる音楽や愛する文学を通して街の人々が強くつながることが実感できる美しい場所と語る一方
Ali Hasan – Syrian musician and contemporary artist
Since moving to Berlin, Ali Hasan has collaborated with many international artists. He has a playground with which he explores the harmonious relationship between movement, body and melodies and experiments with contemporary rhythm.
