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Jul. 30th, 2006 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingA Lebanese musician has recorded a unique duet with the Israeli Air Force by recording on the balcony of his Beirut apartment during a bombing raid.
In his sound art piece, trumpeter Marzen Kerbaj intermingles his music with the sounds of bombardment.
Explaining how he put together his unique composition, Kerbaj told BBC Radio: "I was maybe three kilometres (two miles) away. I could see them explode and hear them but somehow I was safe.
"It is freaking for the nerves but I quickly understood that if I play music while it is happening, it is much better than just hearing it happening. Somehow my brain shifts and I focus totally on the music."
Asked if he thought his composition was in questionable taste, he said: "Throwing bombs on buses with kids escaping from their villages is in much more horrible taste."
He said the recording was a way of making people listen to what Beirut was facing. "It's not like on CNN. It is not a Hollywood movie, it is really happening."
Excerpt here or here
In his sound art piece, trumpeter Marzen Kerbaj intermingles his music with the sounds of bombardment.
Explaining how he put together his unique composition, Kerbaj told BBC Radio: "I was maybe three kilometres (two miles) away. I could see them explode and hear them but somehow I was safe.
"It is freaking for the nerves but I quickly understood that if I play music while it is happening, it is much better than just hearing it happening. Somehow my brain shifts and I focus totally on the music."
Asked if he thought his composition was in questionable taste, he said: "Throwing bombs on buses with kids escaping from their villages is in much more horrible taste."
He said the recording was a way of making people listen to what Beirut was facing. "It's not like on CNN. It is not a Hollywood movie, it is really happening."
Excerpt here or here