This summer, (A)WAKE and Music Matters, under the banner of the Heritage Studios program, are hosting a workshop series dedicated to Polyrhythms./ More Info /
DJ Shahmaran (Arjîn Elgersma) have been exploring different facets of club music over the past five years, developing a taste for breakbeat rhythms carried through a variety of sub bass heavy genres. As an overall artist and aspiring music producer, they are interested and influenced by the intersections of queerness and non-western lineages of deconstructed club music.
“Because of deconstructed club’s queer roots and influences, I am looking to explore with these workshops how I can combine sounds and instruments found in Turkish/Kurdish music with high energy and percussive dance music productions - of course with a seriously unserious queer touch.”