Echoing Travelogues: The Beyond and Us
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Sun 16 Nov 202520:15 - 22:00Grote Zaal
Program
Foyerdeck 1 / 19:15
Introduction by researcher/qanûn player Zeynep Yıldız Abbasoğlu and sound designer Hasan Baran Fırat.
Grote Zaal / 20:15
Works by Dimitrie Cantemir and Wojciech Bobowski (Ali Ufki), Zakiri Hasan Efendi, Nayi Osman Dede, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber and Claude Goudimel
Credits
Dareyn Ensemble:
Emine Bostancı kemenche of Istanbul
Bekir Ünlüataer vocals
Nizar Rohana oud
Khorshid Dadbeh tanbour, tar
Zeynep Yıldız Abbasoğlu qanun
Tony Overwater violone
Vinsent Planjer percussion
Holland Baroque:
Judith Steenbrink baroque violin
Tineke Steenbrink positive organ
Nora Fischer Storyteller
Ivana Djukic Art installation
4Dsound & Joris Takken & Hasan Baran Fırat Sound design
Ardashes Agoshian Arranger
Echoing Travelogues: The Beyond and Us is a concert project led by Amsterdam-based composer and performer Emine Bostancı, exploring how the intertwined histories of travel and migration have shaped cultural and musical identities. Inspired by centuries of encounters across Ottoman, Persian, and European worlds, the project reimagines historical music as a path toward self-understanding. As the performers trace the footsteps of past travelers and diplomats, they pose a resonant question: "Though we travel to explore the other, what we find often reflects our own story."
Blending traditional Eastern and Western Baroque instruments with immersive historical soundscape technology, the performance invites the audience to experience music not just as sound, but as a spatial and temporal journey. The concert’s multisensory design—melding music, stagecraft, and research—creates a vivid echo of lost worlds. By looking back at these layered histories, the project offers a contemporary reflection on identity, belonging, and the cultural imagination of the traveler. Bostancı makes this journey together with the Turkish, Iranian and Dutch musicians of the Dareyn Ensemble. They use historical texts, a unique Ottoman kemenche and cutting-edge 4D sound. This way, you experience how the music sounded in the 15th century at six ancient locations in Vienna, Istanbul and Isfahan.
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