Autism

Music by Mustafa Said for the Asil Ensemble

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New music · 2016

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Music by Mustafa Said for the Asil Ensemble

A contemporary work in the language of Arab music, played on its own instruments. For decades, most attempts to modernise Arab music have meant westernising it, taking Western melodic and rhythmic systems as the source of renewal. In Autism, built on traditional Arab melodies, Mustafa Said takes a state of mind as a point from which to explore the depths of the self.

AMAR shares its heritage not to repeat it endlessly but so that musicians build on it new works that belong to it. Said does not claim to draw the future of Arab music, nor that his vision is the only true one: this is one experiment among others, and we hope many more will follow.

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