Rahma Quartet

Featuring: Lucio Capece, Judith Hamann

As a development of the work done by “I lost myself in finding you”, the trio of Rasha Ragab, Christoph Nicolaus and Lucio Capece is joined by cellist Judith Hamann. In this Quartet piece Capece created the structure, time line and the tones combinations, taking as a departure point the tuning of one specific Stone Harp, that takes the group into a carefully calibrated microtonal tuning. The piece is a slow  conversation, alternating long tones and overtones, repeated sequences of multiphonics, recited and sang texts, among the 4 musicians, in which the steps dynamic that determine the narrative development of the piece, consists in following the decisions in terms of length (of one tone or a repetition of tones) that one musician takes, and that give the sign, and place to decide, to the next one. Rasha Ragab choses the texts and improvises, within the time line and instrumental sections composed by Capece, that include suggestions regarding recited or sang texts, that Ragab decides according to her talent and deep intuition. The texts in this case are taken from Al- Hallaj, who was born March 26th 858 AD (244 H. ) in Fars, Persia. He was executed in March 26th 922 AD (309 H. ) in Baghdad, Iraq. The name of the Piece in this case is taken from another Sufi poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273, Persia). The poem is called “He who needs mercy finds it”.