Thursday 11 September, 6PM
Estuaries & Ethers / Digital
Interpreting Traditional Songs
What role do traditional songs play in cementing and communicating our history? What tools do we need to navigate and re-interpret that history?
Reading and applying the messages of traditional songs can be a difficult process, as our social norms and understandings of the world vary from place to place. Tune in for a special episode on 3CR, as three artists extract and examine the themes of traditional folk songs through an intersectional lens.
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Featuring...
Jahan Xanlü
Jahan Xanlü is a Swiss-Iranian-Central Asian writer and artist, currently based in Naarm. Building on his work in linguistics, she uses a linguistic lens to explore ancient tradition and mythologies and merge them with modern contexts to dream of futures that engage with the degrading ecological realities of the present. Jahan typically mixes Central Asian […]
Damoon Jehani
Damoon comes from a Kurdish/Persian heritage, with a passion in traditional music and he is deeply embedded in political struggles for justice across the Middle East, including regime-change in Iran and rights for Kurdish people.
Astghik Lusaberyan
Blood of a Pomegranate is the folk/industrial/noise musical project of Astghik Anahit Lusaberyan. Sourceressly blending ancient melodies of genocided ancestors with apocalyptic foreshadowings of industrial nightmarescapes. Chthonosonic necromancy in dead and dying languages. Horn of the last days. Anarchy will win.
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