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Kinan Azmeh, composer, clarinet
Kevork Mourad, live illustrations, visuals
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The current unrest in the seat of the world’s oldest
civilization inspired us to explore the most ancient epic we
have in writing today. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a lush
story, rich in meaning, in romance, and in humor. We have
chosen to explore this epic through the art forms of music
and painting, using them in tandem as vehicles for story
telling. With original composition on the clarinet, (with
the use of Max/Msp software as a compositional extension,)
inspiring and working off the visual artist’s projected
illustration, the world’s oldest known epic will be brought
to life in the present: through new musical forms and means,
and through a new form of visual art exploring the
permanence of lines on paper in the impermanence of
projection. |
