At the ManiFeste-2026 festival, Deena Abdelwahed revisits Arab musical traditions through an immersive electronic performance driven by improvisation, voice, and MIDI qanûn.
Deena Abdelwahed reinvents electronic music performance by drawing on intuitive improvisation, which plays an essential role in Arab music. Starting from popular songs from the 1920s and 1950s, the artist and the musicians around her transform the usual uses of established instrumentation, especially with this MIDI qanûn, assembled at Ircam. A new way to experience musical tradition. Program Deena Abdelwahed Diwan Midi Cast Deena Abdelwahed voice, percussion, MIDI instrument Widad Mjama voice Imed Alibi MIDI percussion Nidhal Jaoua MIDI qanûn Guillaume Kiéné lighting design Ircam Robin Meier electronics Ircam Clément Cerles sound diffusion Ircam Coproduction CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Department of Culture and Creation/Ircam-Centre Pompidou. Ircam is a partner of CENTQUATRE-PARIS in hosting experimental projects around live performance. As part of the Constellation of Centre Pompidou.
Price: €10 to €18
Source: paris.fr — photo: Hervé Véronèse