Bath Mythenquai

10.01.2011

Unesco Bahrain

10.01.2011

Unesco, Bahrain

09.12.2010

Musically informed Facade, Unesco Building, Bahrain

In collaboration with AGID Architects, Bahrain.

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Intervention

On the occasion of the conversion of the building for the new Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage we have been invited as artists to contribute to the project by executing Architect D. Kobel. The entrance situation being planned forms a new volume structure consisting of a number of similar, vertically aligned concrete bars within the existing building.

The proposed concept envisions to transform a local traditional type of music into the proportion and sequence of spaces in between these repetitive facade elements. In the following we describe our work in progress and provide background information relevant to our intervention.

 

 

Daylight Simulation Sept 15:00

Heritage

In the history of Bahrain before 1932 more than 90 percent of the population were fishermen, pearl divers, or people having a profession connected with the sea, we wished to work with a rhythmic structure of an original and characteristic musical genre ralated to that culture of
Bahrain, the so called Fidjeri.

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The reference of the Fidjeri is a traditional hand down from father to son, centred on the narration of the historical origins of the Fidjeri.

Concept

In the history of Bahrain before 1932 more than 90 percent of the population were fishermen, pearl divers, or people having a profession connected with the sea, we wished to work with a rhythmic structure of an original and characteristic musical genre ralated to that culture of
Bahrain, the so called Fidjeri.

The reference of the Fidjeri is a traditional hand down from father to son, centred on the narration of the historical origins of the Fidjeri.