Ali Hasan
Musician
"Unleashing Melodies, Illuminating Souls:
Rhythmic Renaissance"
ALI HASAN
MUSICIAN
An artist and musician based in Berlin-Germany, originally from Syria, is well-known for his vibrant creativity.
His talents go beyond the stage – he is also an artist curator and one of the founders of BAYNATNA, the Arabic Public Library and Art Space in Berlin.
As a versatile artist, Ali shines when he plays percussion, whether on his own as a Soloist or with groups like the Resident Music Collective in Humboldt Forum, Pulsar Collective, and with the DABKE community dance by Sasha Waltz & Guests.
Throughout Ali’s artistic journey, he was trained by some of the most accomplished mentors in the world, including Sasha Waltz, Grandmaster Shi Yan Lin, and Master Mohammad Reza Mortazavi. He even studied at the ‘Berlin Handpan Academy’ and the ‘Groove’ institute for percussion in Syria.
His rhythmic skills have mesmerised audiences at events and festivals across Germany and Europe.
Ali’s music is complemented by his work as an artistic curator and cofounder of BAYNATNA. These awards recognise its unique impact on the cultural scene, including “THE POWER OF THE ART – Transforming Society” and “ACTIVE FOR DEMOCRACY AND TOLERANCE.”
He also plays a role as a music curator and performer at Humboldt Forum, where he encourages artistic collaboration and creativity.
Ali’s dedication to his craft led to a scholarship from the Company Sasha Waltz & Guests as part of the support program “Weltoffenes Berlin – Artist at Risk” of the Berlin Senate and Allianz Kulturstiftung.
With a remarkable journey so far and a bright future ahead, Ali continues to make a lasting impact on Berlin’s cultural scene, inspiring both audiences and fellow artists.
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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.
