Morphine x Beirut 1

24th Jan 2021 24th Jan 2021 20:00 20:30

Marta de Pascalis

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  • Marcin Pietruszewski

    PL/DE

    Marcin Pietruszewski is a Polish composer now based in Berlin. He works largely with synthetic sound and uses compositional techniques developed in contemporary electroacoustic and computer music.

    • Image: Marta de Pascalis, 2020.

    This past October, Morphine and CTM Festival joined forces with several Beirut music initiatives – Irtijal Festival, Ruptured, Tunefork Studios, The Ballroom Blitz, and Frequent Defect – plus Unsound to create a 17-hour livestream fundraiser for the Lebanese Musicians' Fund, an initiative set up by Tunefork Studios in order to provide relief to musicians impacted by the deadly blast of August 4th in Beirut. The marathon event symbolically took place on the day of the Lebanese revolution.

    In order to revisit this extraordinary event, in which many of Beirut’s musicians and cultural producers came together with artists and organisers from Europe and beyond, select sets will be re-streamed as part of the CTM 2021 programme.

    This 30-minute performance features tape loop improviser Marta De Pascalis, who created a densely layered collage set within a pastoral sunset.

    Recorded at Fela in the town of Revine Lago, Treviso.