Remixes
All sounds and images in this remix were entirely derived from traditional music videos recorded by Remix ⟷ Culture (in order of appearance):
Kálmán Balogh - Budapest, Hungary
Coco Trupé - Arcoverde, Brazil
Mourad Belouadi - Sale, Morocco
Symphonie Lahcen Idhamou - Inezgane/Tiznit, Morocco
Zélito - Saint-Paul, Réunion
Khadija El Warzazia - Marrakech, Morocco
Maracatu de Baque Solto Estrela de Ouro - Condado, Brazil
Fatbardh Capi - Tirana, Albania
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At the age of 17, Hatim Belyamani, aka HAT, was fascinated by Béla Bartók's ethnomusicological work. Bartók - after being deeply moved by a nanny singing folk songs to children - came to regard folk songs as the best source of inspiration for a composer. So he recorded folk songs from various parts of Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and beyond, and wrote new compositions which re-harmonized and re-arranged these folk melodies. He believed by incorporating a greater variety of folk melodies from around the world into this compositional process, that he could arrive at the creation of a 'universal music'. Hatim wanted to follow on Bartók's footsteps and create his own version of 'universal music'.
Fast-forward to 17 years later, Hatim started his first serious attempt at creating a new form of 'universal music', and he called it Remix ←→ Culture.
In Oct 2017, HAT was invited to bring Remix ←→ Culture to Béla Bartók's home country, Hungary. There he recorded and filmed two Hungarian traditional musicians and subsequently incorporated these Hungarian sounds and images into his live video remix performance at the Budapest Ritmo Festival.
Alexandra Berta was one of these Hungarian musicians Hatim recorded and filmed for Remix ←→ Culture.
During one of the phases of the creation of this video, HAT sat at his piano while the recording of Alexandra's folk song "My lover…" was playing on loop. HAT kept playing along on his piano until he found new harmonies that sounded most satisfying to him. HAT then manipulated videos from other Remix ←→ Culture recordings to create the same harmonies he had composed on the piano. This re-harmonization process is very much inspired by Bartók's process, and so, with so many elements pointing back to Béla Bartók, it seemed clear that the title of this remix should honor this deep influence.
All sounds and images in this remix were entirely derived from traditional music videos recorded by Remix ←→ Culture (in order of appearance):
Alexandra Berta - Budapest, Hungary
Mourad Belouadi - Sale, Morocco
Sully Chamand - Saint-Paul, Réunion
Suya - Hohhot, China
Deqqat Assif ou Aqellal - Tamegroute, Morocco
Fanmi Asòtò - Brooklyn / Haiti
Ferqa Ahwah Agdz - Agdz, Morocco
The River Voices - Corovoda, Albania
Amino Belyamani - Brooklyn / Morocco
Maracatu de Baque Solto Estrela de Ouro - Condado, Brazil
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This is a video remix by HAT created using as its only source material traditional music videos recorded by Remix ←→ Culture. Using Ableton Live, HAT cuts up video stems provided by Remix ←→ Culture and builds an ever-growing library of video loops. He then plugs those video loops into his live performance setup (on Ableton Live and Resolume Avenue), and improvises a live video collage, such as this one.
Source musicians remixed here are:
• Mourad Belouadi (Sale, Morocco)
• Kálmán Balogh (Budapest, Hungary)
• Coco Trupé (Arcoverde, Brazil)
• Fatbardh Capi (Tirana, Albania)
• Camisa Verde e Branca (São Paulo, Brazil)
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On October 22nd, 2016, H.A.T. was featured at the annual World Music Expo (WOMEX), held this year in Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
This video is an excerpt from the 1-hour live set H.A.T. performed from 2:30am to 3:30am.
All of the music and projections shown and heard here were derived remix ←→ culture collective. The traditional musicians featured in this remix are:
Aâzzouz Boumsis ------------ Khenifra, Morocco
Maracatu de Baque Solto Estrela de Ouro ------------------ Condado, Brazil
Coco Trupé ------------- Arcoverde, Brazil
Cavalo Marinho Estrela Brihante ----------------- Condado, Brazil
Zalazil
Palestine/Syria/Lebanon
Deqqat Assif Ou Aqellal
Tamegroute, Morocco
Khadija El Warzazia
Marrakech, Morocco
Kálmán Balogh
Budapest, Hungary
Alexandra Berta
Budapest, Hungary
Mourad Belouadi
Sale, Morocco
Côco Trupé
Arcoverde, Brazil
About HAT
Since 2012, Hatim Belyamani – aka HAT – unites artists in an ever-evolving audio-visual dance between traditional music and digital remix art. In his one-of-a-kind live show, HAT is as an orchestra conductor from the future, beaming traditional musicians from the four corners of the world onto a big screen, and shaping them harmoniously into new electro beats.
Growing up in Morocco, surrounded by sounds of the country’s Arabic, Amazigh, and Sub-Saharan African origins, Hatim was an award-winning classical pianist and guitarist before finding his voice in electronic music. In 2012, inspired to celebrate his roots, Hatim founded Remix ⟷ Culture, a non-profit organization that bridges cultural divides through the transformative power of traditional music, film, and remix. Hatim and his team traverse the globe, capturing the sights and sounds of underrepresented musical traditions, which they share for free online under a Creative Commons license. HAT’s performances are a live remixing of these videos, seamlessly blending the traditional with the experimental – acoustic trance with electronic dance – connecting his audiences to distant cultures in a unique audio-visual journey.
HAT has performed at various festivals and venues around the world, notably at Chicago’s Millennium Park Summer Music Series where he opened for the legendary Femi Kuti , Habibi Festival and Lincoln Center in NYC, Roskilde Festival in Denmark, WOMEX in Spain, and Rec Beat Festival in Brazil.
The project has received increasing acclaim since its inception, in countless print, TV, radio, and online media outlets.
I am delighted to see the work [HAT is] doing, I feel that Moroccan traditional music is a vast treasure that needs to be valued, and bringing it into the digital world as [HAT is] doing is a vital and powerful project.
-Justin Adams - Guitarist (Robert Plant & the Sensational Shapeshifters)
Hatim is currently based in NY, leading Remix ⟷ Culture's growth and facilitating various collaborations with underrepresented traditional musicians, filmmakers, and remix artists.
Shows
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
Past Shows
2017
2016
2015
Cover photo by Andy Isaacson