HAT (Марокко) - Béla Bartók (посвящение венгерскому композитору,который собирал фольклор)

At the age of 17, Hatim Belyamani, aka HAT, was fascinated by Béla Bartók’s ethnomusicological work. Bartók - after being deeply moved by a nanny singing folk songs to children - came to regard folk songs as the best source of inspiration for a composer. So he recorded folk songs from various parts of Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and beyond, and wrote new compositions which re-harmonized and re-arranged these folk melodies. He believed by incorporating a greater variety of folk melodies from around the world into this compositional process, that he could arrive at the creation of a ’universal music’. Hatim wanted to follow on Bartók’s footsteps and create his own version of ’universal music’. Fast-forward to 17 years later, Hatim started his first serious attempt at creating a new form of ’universal music’, and he called it Remix ←→ Culture. In Oct 2017, HAT was invited to bring Remix ←→ Culture to Béla Bartók’s home country, Hungary. There he recorded and filmed two Hungarian traditional musicians and subs
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