WORKSHOP & PREVIEW PREMIERE: Inside Spaces by Amir ElSaffar and Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch

Inside Spaces, an electro-acoustic collaboration by trumpeter, santur player, vocalist, and composer Amir ElSaffar and electronics performer and composer Lorenzo Bianchi-Hoesch. Inside Spaces blends microtonal harmonies, maqam (melodic modes unique to Arabic music), and jazz improvisation in a modular marvel of cross-cultural music-making. ElSaffar and Bianchi-Hoesch create an immersive sound that transcends notions of form, musical language, and categorization. Inside Spaces explores electro-acoustics and microtonality that embraces multiple musical languages to create a sonic environment that draws on the richness, complexity, and idiomatic expression of jazz, contemporary classical music, maqam, raga, and other musical backgrounds, without compromise.