Terry Riley “In C“ perfermed by Khyam Allami (Maqam Rast remodel) - Irtijal’2018

Irtijal International Experimental Music Festival, Zoukak Studio, 6 april 2018. Khyam Allami: electronics As part of his ongoing research into the potential to translate the fundamentals of Arabic music into contemporary compositional practices and vice-versa, Iraqi-born Khyam Allami debuts a solo, electronic, rendition of Terry Riley’s seminal minimalist composition “In C”, retuned and remodeled in the Arabic Maqam Rast, using a custom-coded micro-tuning software patch developed in Max for Live with London-based programmer Charles Matthews.