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BEYOND 1932 RESIDENCY: Kareem Samara

Sun, 12 Oct

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BEYOND 1932 RESIDENCY: Kareem Samara
BEYOND 1932 RESIDENCY: Kareem Samara

Time & Location

12 Oct 2025, 20:00 – 13 Oct 2025, 10:00

London, 18-22 Ashwin St, London E8 3DL, UK

About the event

Kareem Samara is an improviser and composer from London. He has worked extensively in theatre as a composer and has toured worldwide with different iterations of solo and collaborative musical projects. He combines the Oud and Arabic percussion, with loopers and samplers to create a new dialogue between himself and technology. Arabic maqam in its essence is an investigation into place and time, Samara uses this as a prompt for his work, where he simultaneously honours and challenges the role of ‘time’ in Arabic music asking; 'Who determines that time and why? and what does it even matter?' 

 

Kareem achieves this through a deconstruction of Arabic folk songs and rituals using alternative approaches to playing Oud, extended techniques, and tuning systems, yet always rooted in the importance of the relationship between instrument and performer,  and in turn, the audience's expectation of how one performs on said instrument. 

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