About the African Pioneer of Electronic Music: Halim El-Dabh
Listening session/ Saturday, December 12th / 17:00 – 18:00 /Great Hall / English
From the website:
At Oorzaken, a festival for narrative audio, Kenyan sound artist and composer Nyokabi Kariũki takes the audience into the world of Egyptian pioneer and composer Halim El-Dabh (1921-2017). She builds upon her self-published essay (2023): "On learning that one of the first electronic works was by an African, Halim El-Dabh" Dive into the sound of this innovative African pioneer.
More about the festival:
“Oorzaken brings creators, stories, and audiences together around one of the most versatile and fast-growing forms of storytelling of our time: narrative audio.
From podcasts and documentaries to sound walks and immersive installations, we help this young (art) discipline develop. We take audio from the podcast app and turn it into a collective cultural experience: in theaters, museums, on the street, and online. Listening thus becomes more than an individual activity: it becomes an encounter, a conversation, and a shared experience.”
Full program here.