Jonas Petry (tombak, daf, metal plates and electronics)
Raman Khalaf (oud, saz and voice)
Khaled Kurbeh (piano, objects and synthesizer)

In their debut at the Church of the Galilee, Jonas Petry (drums), Raman Khalaf (oud, baglama, vocals), 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, practicing the Arabic culture of muhawalāt (experiments, variations) and hawāmesh (margins)—an outlet for gestures, sonic footnotes, and observations from everyday life.