Jonas Petry (tombak, daf, electronics)
Raman Khalaf (oud, baglama, voice)
Khaled Kurbeh (piano, objects, synthesizer)

In their debut at the Galiläakirche, Jonas Petry (tombac), Raman Khalaf (oud, baglama, voice), and Khaled Kurbeh (piano) will perform a set of electroacoustic compositions and improvisations that explore and test the sonic potential of the space. Experimenting with overlapping motifs and maqām, the system of melodic modes in Arabic music, their sonic explorations blur the boundaries between written and improvised music.

Nime, alias Jonas Petry, works as a musician, artist manager, festival director, and curator in the fields of experimental music and sound art. He lives in Leipzig and Berlin. His musical interests lie in the exploration, transformation, and conscious modification of timbres and rhythmic interweaving. His instrumental repertoire includes the piano, prepared drums, the daf frame drum, and the tombak, the central percussion instrument in Persian music.

Raman Khalaf's musical repertoire includes the oud, the baglama, and vocals. His live performances explore the interplay between maqam music and the millennia-old poetry and improvisational art of Mesopotamia. He regularly collaborates with many different musicians and ensembles, with performances ranging from the Berlin Philharmonic to the XJazz! Festival in Berlin. His debut EP, Aphorisms, was released in 2017 on the !K7 imprint Between Buttons.

Khaled Kurbeh is a Berlin-based musician and composer. His music layers textures of piano, synthesizer, and field recordings as part of his practice of muhawalāt [experiments, variations] and hawāmesh [margins]—an outlet for gestures, sonic footnotes, and observations from everyday life. Both as a soloist and in collaboration, Kurbeh has performed internationally in Europe and Australia, including at the Norla Dome in Melbourne, the Funkhaus in Berlin, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, and the Munich Kammerspiele.