The first concert in this year's PRISMS Festival features Pierre Boulez's monumental Sur Incises, a piece described by music critic Tim Page as "charged with a bright, cold, hard brilliance, like a spray of crushed ice."  Rounding out the program are works for instruments and electronics by ASU faculty members Alex Temple, Gabriel Bolaños and alejandro t. acierto.

In this fluid confluence of lecture and performance, Karim Nagi leads a tour into the soul of traditional Arab music, revealing what rhythm & melody teaches us about culture. Nagi demonstrates his tradition’s musical systems and percussive traditions, discussing aspects of form, ornamentation and improvisation. He performs on multiple percussive instruments from Egypt, Syria, Morocco and the Arabian Peninsula, along with a 7-string version of the Buzuq lute.

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