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Hassan Khan

Taraban
05.30.14 - 9PM
Performance — isdaT — institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse

Taraban (2014) Hassan Khan. Performance. Courtesy Chantal Crousel. Photo: Franck Alix, Toulouse International Art Festival 2014 © Printemps de septembre

Taraban (2014) Hassan Khan. Performance. Courtesy Chantal Crousel GalleryPhoto: Franck Alix, Toulouse International Art Festival 2014 © Printemps de septembre

Born in 1975 in London, he lives and works in Cairo. 
 

Hassan Khan's work is developing equally in the sphere of the visual arts, writing and music. With a visual sense of contrast, he borrows from a broad range of genres and styles, from urban pop music to the minimal language of so-called “scholarly” contemporary music. The starting point of the performance he is proposing as part of the Festival draws from the Egyptian songs of Youssef el Manialawy from the very beginning of the 20th century. Based on the sounds of traditional Arabic instruments (oud, qanoun, violin…) and on the melodic constructions that recur in the original songs, he produces a novel sound by mixing and completely re-organizing the acoustic transitions. Khan uses a battery of feedbacking mixers, filters and processors and also handles a portable computer and virtual synthesizers, making the original sounds the malleable and sculptural raw material of his performance.

 

Hassan Khan has exhibited and produced himself in many prestigious international events (among others, Documenta XIII; as part of the “Intense Proximité” Triennial in Paris; and more recently in the latest Nuit Blanche in Paris, or during the Fiac at the Musée du Louvre)

In the frame of  "L'Eveil du Printemps" programmé par Mehdi Brit et Blanche de Lestrange

Aknowledgement: Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris