SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2025 THE ROUNDHOUSE |181 ROUNDHOUSE MEWS (Pacific & Davie) |Google map
Doors at 7:00PM | Concert starts at 7:30PM
featuring:
Pedram Baldari: Project’s Artist, creator of the instruments made from the decommissioned weapons
Matthew Rahaim: Composer, Voice, Jîwan
Cherolyn Kay Fischer: Woodwind (made from decommissioned rifles)
Dameun Strange: Woodwind (made from decommissioned rifles)
Nathan Hanson: Woodwind (made from decommissioned rifles)
Aida Shahghasemi: Kamanche, Vocal, Daff
Ahmad Yousefbeigi: Percussion, Chimes
Michael Duffy: Sound Design
TICKETS from $25 Pay-what-you-will $38-$62. (Student/arts worker $25)
Resonant Transmutations is a powerful multidisciplinary project by Pedram Baldari, and composed by Matt Rahaim. This piece transforms objects of violence into instruments of sound, reflection, and healing.
Blending music, poetry, and performance, the work traverses languages, traditions, and histories, weaving together stories of grief, resilience, and hope. What emerges is a sound world both fragile and bold, a space where weapons are reshaped into offerings of beauty.
The transformed pieces present a future that is made, not given, one that embraces struggle, vulnerability, improvisation, and uncertainty. Resonant Transmutations is an invitation to witness renewal, where instruments once bound to destruction are reimagined as instruments of connection and care.
This project has been supported partially by the University of Michigan’s Arts Initiative and Stamps School of Art and Design.
Programme
Instruments by Pedram Baldari
Compositions by Matthew Rahaim
I: Heart-Arsenal I.1 Death is Rhythm Suspended I.2 Won’t you come Home I.3 The Call I.4 Glittering and Jumping Against Each Other I.5 The Crux I.6 Death Suspended
II: Çirîkey Jiyanewa (“Revitalizing Heart-Song”) II.1 Sard Hai Parda (Cold is the Veil) II.2 Surkh Hai Aahan (Red is the Iron) II.3 Dheemi Hai Tabdil (Slow is the Transmutation)
