Credits:

Marie Schreer

Description:

Contemporary Music That Explores the Concept of Home in Turbulent TimesCurated by violinist Marie Schlger, this project is a contemporary music initiative that examines the questions, What is home? and Where do people belong? Taking Schlers own experiencesborn in Germany and based in the UKas a starting point, the project features composer Ashkan Behzadi, Aaron Holloway-Nahum, and poet Taher Adel. Weaving together violin, voice, spoken word, field recordings, and improvisation, the work offers a multifaceted portrayal of migration, memory, language, and identity. Through a collection of works in which music and words are deeply intertwinedsuch as the ballad cycle *Oblique*, set against the backdrop of the situation in Gaza, and *If I Am From Somewhere, Then I Come From There*, which uses her own recorded voice as source materialthis ambitious work offers a contemporary reexamination of the mea