Bozar Bassment #6: Mariam Rezaei & Edward George - Sagat

Sagat (Wiet Lengeler) offers a distinctive perspective on percussive bass music, exploring different cadences of contemporary dance music, informed by dub and experimental electronics. He presents a new show and partners up with Elizabeth Davis, who uses the interplay of technological limitation, algorithmic processes, and human expression as subject matter. Davis’ music resists easy categorization, taking equal influence from musique concrète, radio drama, harsh noise, and 20th century dance music.

Composer and performer Mariam Rezaei is described by The Wire as “one of the most technically adept and creatively daring artists to use the turntable as a musical instrument.” She works at the nexus of experimental new music, free improvisation, mutant club musics and hip-hop. Rezaei invited musician, writer and broadcaster Edward George. His ongoing radio series The Strangeness of Dub and The Strangeness of Jazz intertwine a broad musical selection with different geographical musical histories, African/Afro-diasporic knowledge and critical theory from queer and black studies.