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Portrait of the composer Emre Dündar, fellow of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of DAAD for Deutschlandfunk Hörspielmagazin, including excerpts of performances of his works at Festival Ultraschall Berlin in January 2021, performed by Ensemble KNM Berlin.
Radio show for SWR2 about music and poetry.
With Bernd Oeszevim, Roman Babik and the poet Shannon Sullivan, Joachim Badenhorst and the poet Peter Holvoet-Hanssen, Ig Hennemann and Anna voor de Wind with a poem by Anneke Brassinga, Didrik Ingvaldsen and the Nowegian-Czech quartet + choir, inspired by the poetry of Rafael Alberti, Keir Neuringer and the Ensemble Klang, Ya Tosiba/Zavoloka with a poem by Aliagha Vahid Isgandarov, Mahsa Vahdat and Kronos Quartet with a poem by Forough Farrokhzad, and Hans Unstern (photo by Konstantina Levi).
Radio feature for SWR2 about the online exhibition “Rooted in Iran”, curated by Ruth Wiesenfeld and the Iranian Female Composers Association IFCA, a project of Towards Sound.
Introducing the composers Negin Zomorodi, Arezou Rezaei, Afarin Mansouri and Farnaz Ohadi (picture).
Radio feature for Deutschlandfunk about the online exhibition “Rooted in Iran”, curated by Ruth Wiesenfeld and the Iranian Female Composers Association IFCA, a project of Towards Sound.
Introducing the composers Atefeh Einali (picture), Parisa Sabet and Aida Shirazi.
Article for Goethe Institut about the year 2020 in jazz, containing quotes from interviews with the musicians Ronny Graupe, Joe Hertenstein, Niklas Lukassen and Maxine Troglauer.
Radio broadcast about light and darkness in music for SWR2, with
Harry James and his orchestra, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and Earl Coleman, Rita Hayworth, Henry Mancini, Jimmy Witherspoon, Wayne Shorter and the Miles Davis Quintet, Sun Ra and his Arkestra, Horst Jankowski, The Real Group, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (photo) and Son House.
My radio feature about the new App “jazzed” for SWR2 Treffpunkt Klassik, containing quotes of Götz Bühler, Head of Content in Germany and the Cologne-based musician Reza Askari.
Radio show about singer and guitar player Heidi Heidelberg for SWR. Photo taken by Camille Blake at Jazzfest Berlin, where Heidelberg performed her duo Witch ‘n’ Monk together with Mauricio Velasierra, the ensemble LUX:NM and the drummer Jim Black on November 6.
Radio broadcast about Dystopie Sound Art Festival which took place from October 16 to November 1 at Alte Münze Berlin. From 18:15 min in Deutschlandfunk’s Hörspielmagazin
With works and sounds by:
Ute Wassermann: Aus Atem (title image)
Torben Laib: Inflazione In Flagranti
Jazz only would be boring, right? Radio show for SWR about muslim musicians, starting with a story about the bass lute guembri with a track by Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, ending with a story about zoroastrianism with a song by Ariana Vafadari.
In between there is music by Sahib Shihab and Ahmad Khatab Salim, Kenny Clarke and John Lewis, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Yusef Lateef, Rashied Ali and John Coltrane, Saadet Türköz and Elliott Sharp (pictured, photo by Mauro D’Agati) and Les Filles de Illighadad.