ARTEFACT SOUND 23 — Ensemble Nist-Nah / Vincent Moon & Mohammad Reza Mortazavi

Vincent Moon & Mohammad Reza Mortazavi
(live, residency, premiere)

Artefact Sound presents the premiere of an audiovisual collaboration between DIY filmmaker Vincent Moon and percussionist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi. Like a real ‘sound voyager’ French artist Vincent Moon has been traveling around the world for twenty years to make films of musical folklore, shamanic rituals and special, site-specific sounds. He mixes those videos live into an audiovisual dj set (‘live cinema’). For this occasion he works in a residency with Iran-born, Berlin-based percussion virtuoso Mohammad Reza Mortazavi. His finger work on tombak and daf, two traditional Persian hand drums, is second to none. Amplified by a soundsystem he brings intoxicating rhythms that take you on an ecstatic trip.

Ensemble Nist-Nah
(live)

Ensemble Nist-Nah is a ten-piece gamelan orchestra led by Australian, Nantes-based drummer and percussionist Will Guthrie. Inspired by his travels and studies in Indonesia, Guthrie and co use a colourful array of bronze metallophones, gongs, xylophones and drums. However, don’t expect an exercise in exotism but radically new rhythms with these ancient Javanese and Balinese instruments. The ten members of Nist-Nah were found all over France and have a wide range of backgrounds, from traditional music to contemporary classical and free jazz. Together they beat themselves into a trance with a game of rhythm, repetition and timbre.

Musicians: Prune Becheau, Charles Dubois, Thibault Florent, Colline Grosjean, Will Guthrie, Amelie Grould, Mark Lockett, Sven Michel, Arno Tukiman.