‘Music lovers enamoured with Dhaka City Sound Project concert by Goethe’

City Desk :

The Goethe-Institut Bangladesh, in partnership with Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD), organized a special concert titled ‘Dhaka City Sound Project’ on the twentieth instant at the Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD), Dhanmondi in the capital, enthralling music lovers with captivating fusion scores.

Five artists including the German musician, music producer and artistic director of Dhaka City Sound project Viktor Marek, renowned Bangladeshi music artist Kanak Aditya, rapper Shagor, percussionist Toisifor Rahman Eem and flutist Jabiul Islam, reports UNB.

Aiming at creating a musical portrait of cities, the City Sound Project initiated by Goethe-Institut and has been implemented in Dhaka, Kolkata and Colombo.
The decisive factor behind the project is the encounter with an unfamiliar acoustic context and its transformation into a new aesthetic reality.

The City Sound project started in December 2022 with a research visit to Dhaka by Viktor Marek, a German musician and music composer based in Hamburg. During the trip, Viktor Marek immersed himself in Dhaka’s artistic scene and recorded the city’s acoustic impressions.

Through this trip, Viktor identified four talented musicians to collaborate with him in producing the sonic portrait of Dhaka: Kanak Aditya (vocalist), Shagor (rapper), Eem (percussion), and Jabiul Islam (flute).

Viktor Marek returned to Dhaka during the first week of July 2023 to commence the production phase of the project. This phase began with rehearsals involving the four selected musicians and will culminate in two consecutive concerts in Dhaka.