Modara
Fest for Contemporary Music
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is Modara. I’ll meet you there.”
The Trickster Orchestra’s festival for contemporary music, Modara, celebrates ambiguity and cultural transformation in music. Rumi’s idea of Modara is a place of intense encounter and dissolution of the self into something completely new. The festival embodies this utopian place of unity and presents revolutionary musicians that create transcultural art music transcending boundaries and merging traditions, genres, and instruments into new musical experiences.
The festival begins with several improvisation sessions all over Berlin, before concluding with two days of concerts at Heimathafen, Neukölln.
Lineup
Vocals
Cymin Samawatie
Trombone
Hilary Jeffery
Oud & Guitar
Mahan Mirarab
Grand Piano
Niko Meinhold
Koto
Naoko Kikuchi
Vibraphone & Marimba
Taiko Saito
Bass Clarinet & Electronics
Milian Vogel
Kanun
Bassem Alkhouri
Trumpet
Liz Allbee
Viola
Martin Stegner
Electronics
Korhan Erel
Paetzold Bass Recorder
Susanne Fröhlich
Cello
Anil Eraslan
Kawala & Nay
Mohamad Fityan
Double Bass
Ralf Schwarz
Drums
Ketan Bhatti
Concept, Dramaturg
Philip Geisler
