Writer Dan Sociu (RO), performer Victor Nicolae Ciobanu (RO)

Intermediate light – musical poetry performance

Contemporary Romanian poetry meets Middle Eastern and Asian instruments – writer Dan Sociu’s stream of poems about disappearance is accompanied by performer Victor Nicolae Ciobanu on Turkish saz, qanun, oud, Indonesian drums and wind instruments. Now in its third edition, the production explores the relationship and boundaries between sound and verse, music and poetry. The experimental music and poetry performance is followed by a discussion and a Q&A session.

Dan Sociu, born in 1978 in Botoșani (RO), has published 17 or 18 books, depending on how you count them, has translated another 30, plus plays and thousands of scientific articles, has won all the Romanian literary prizes, some of them twice and residencies in Germany and the USA, has been a vagrant, a barman, a book editor, a journalist, an ecologist, a member of the Bolintin band, starred in the British film Universe 25, now in post-production and wrote the screenplay for the film Monarch, in pre-production.

Victor Nicolae Ciobanu was born in 1986 in Sepsiszentgyörgy/Sfântu Gheorghe (RO). He studied music, anthropology and theater, and learned the mysteries of Turkish saz at Erdal Erzincan’s school in Istanbul (2013). He is the first Romanian scholarship holder of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (2016), and went to the island of Sulawesi to study drums under Master Basri Baharuddin Sila, and to Java to study stage dramaturgy under Master Martinus Miroto. In Romania, he is the first to organize performances with rituals, dances and music from the island of Sulawesi.

Date: 11th of October, Friday, 19:30
Venue: Bábel Kiskultúr

Combined duration of performance and discussion: 90 minutes

Free entry.