Inner Spaces

Trumpeter, santur player, vocalist, and composer Amir ElSaffar joins electronics performer and composer Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch in a
new project exploring electro-acoustic spaces, maqam, microtonal harmonies, and improvised and composed structures in a modular
musical composition that accommodates a variety of musical styles across genres. Together, they create an immersive sound that
transcends notions of form, musical language, electronic, and acoustic categories in music. This new work will be a modular
composition combining pre-determined structural elements with freely improvised sections, played live by ElSaffar and Bianchi-Hoesch.
The work will explore electro-acoustic spaces in a microtonal environment that embraces the sonic spectra of multiple musical
languages. Bianchi-Hoesch and ElSaffar are interested in creating a transcultural collaboration combining jazz, contemporary classical
music, maqam, raga, and other musical backgrounds, inclusive of all the richness, complexity, and idiomatic expression, without
compromising or oversimplifying in order to be compatible with others. They are in search of boundary-less spaces in
music..