TAFA’ILL - Wajdi Abou Diab

Commissioned by Anoush Moazzeni for "Deterritorializing the Realm of New Music" project, 2021.
Piece: TAFA’ILL
Composer: Wajdi Abou Diab
Country: Lebanon
Instrumentation: Prepared Piano and Tape
Performer: Anoush Moazzeni
More About the Piece: This is a short video excerpt from the original piece (longer than 60 seconds).

“Tafa’il” is a piece for piano and tape, based on the sixteen vertical axes of Arabic poetry, translating their subdivisions into music, and deeply examining the rhythm of weighted Arabic poetry, and the division of poetic verses, and linking the classical Arabic language with classical Arabic music by modeling poetry subdivisions in Arabic musical phrase, and introduces the piano as a contemporary Arabic instrument. In the recorded Tape, we can listen to poetic, melodic, or spoken phrases, as well as recordings of Arabic instruments and electronics, in an attempt to adapt the contemporary music to serve Arabic musical ideas.

With the support of : Canadian Music Centre(CMC), Canada Council for the Arts( CAC), Iranian Female Composers Association(IFCA), Feminist Media Studio.