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SUMMARY:Walls Will Fall: The 28 Trumpets of Jericho / Beirut Birds
LOCATION:Start.Bahn - Genezarethkirche
DESCRIPTION:The Dream Atlas multidisciplinary storytelling project presents
  a very special double bill featuring two of Berlin's most innovative arti
 sts and composers in the beautiful setting of the Genezarethkirche in Neuk
 ölln.\n\n"Walls Will Fall" is a site-specific composition by Mazen Kerbaj
  that will guide 28 Berlin trumpet players through the unique acoustics of
  the Genezarethkirche. According to the Old Testament\, Jericho's walls co
 llapsed under the sound of seven trumpeters\, blowing their horns for seve
 n days while circling around the city. Far from the religious background o
 f the story\, it is the idea of music breaking walls and barriers that is 
 central to this composition. During the performance of "Walls Will Fall\,"
  the Genezarethkirche's natural reverberation becomes the accomplice of ev
 ery sound and movement.\n\n"Beirut Birds" ("طيور بيروت") is a son
 ic memory capsule that interweaves live improvisations\, interviews\, fiel
 d recordings\, and sounds of objects that symbolize migration. When perfor
 med live\, it is accompanied by juxtaposed images of the Lebanese capital'
 s city life and avian migration across the Mediterranean Sea\, reflecting 
 themes integral to the music. The songs are enriched by Nour Sokhon's impr
 ovisations on classical piano\, electronics\, synthesizers\, violin\, and 
 various percussion instruments.\n\nAbout the artists: \n\nMazen Kerbaj is 
 a Lebanese comics author\, visual artist\, and musician born in Beirut in 
 1975. He also works on selective illustration and design projects and has 
 taught at the American University of Beirut. Kerbaj is the author of 15 bo
 oks translated into more than ten languages and his work has been shown in
  galleries\, museums and art fairs around the world. Mazen Kerbaj is widel
 y considered as one of the initiators and key players of the Lebanese free
  improvisation and experimental music scene. As a trumpet player\, he push
 es the boundaries of the instrument beyond recognition.\n\nBased between B
 eirut and Berlin\, Nour Sokhon's practice draws on archival methods and th
 e activation of inanimate matter as living narrators\, taking the form of 
 sound and music pieces\, performances\, interactive installations\, and mo
 ving-image works. She earned a master's degree of Design in Sound for the 
 Moving Image from The Glasgow School of Art. She received the Emerging Art
 ist Prize from the Sursock Museum in 2019\, for a moving image piece entit
 led 'Revisiting: Hold Your Breath' and the Sound Art grant from HBK in 202
 0. In 2024\, she released her debut album "Beirut Birds" supported by AFAC
 . \n\nShe has exhibited her artwork internationally and performed in vario
 us sound/music festivals including This Is Not Lebanon (2021)\, Punkt Fest
 ival (2023)\, Gaudeamus Festival (2023)\, United in Grief (2024)\, Vorspie
 l (2024)\, the Biennale d'Aix (2024)\, Salam Music (2025)\, Mapping Sounds
  in Exile (2025)\, Avant Art Festival Berlin (2025)\, Sonic Acts (2026) an
 d Biennale Rencontres Archipel #Chaos-Monde (2026). Her work has also been
  shown at institutions such as Spatial Sound Institute\, Beirut Art Center
 \, SAVVY Contemporary\, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien\, Kunsthaus Hamburg
 \, Silent Green\, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter\, GMEM\, Frankfurt Lab\, Künst
 lerhaus Mousonturm\, Kampnagel Hamburg\, neue Gesellschaft für bildende K
 unst (nGbK)\, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Centre Wallonie-Bruxel
 les/Paris. "Those Beautiful Days" "احلى ايام" is her visual art so
 lo show\, currently being presented at La Condition Publique until Decembe
 r 2026.\n\nThe event is donation-based and supported with funding by the B
 erlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion's Recovery Grant P
 rogramme.\n\nBoletos: https://ra.co/events/2544036
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