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
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Music on Main offers a limited number of complimentary tickets for all self-identifying Indigenous peoples. This policy is informed by our commitment to recognize and honour the original and ongoing stewards of these lands. Tickets can be reserved by contacting [email protected] or by calling 604-879-9888.
From Destruction to Connection
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.
About Pedram Baldari
Pedram Baldari, born in Sine (Sanandaj), Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan), is an interdisciplinary artist, architect, and scholar whose practice spans social practice, installation, sound, performance, and public art. His work explores land, belonging, and displacement, often transforming the tools of violence into new cultural and artistic forms.
About Matthew Rahaim
Matthew Rahaim is a Hindustani vocalist, composer, and ethnomusicologist whose work bridges raga traditions, improvisation, and experimental music. His creative projects include pieces for new instruments built out of decommissioned police rifles, expansive raga explorations, and experimental counterpoint for voice and synthesizers.
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)
Accessibility The Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (located at 181 Roundhouse Mews) is located at street level through the entrance off Roundhouse Mews, or accessible via a ramp or stairs through the entrance off Pacific Boulevard.
The venue is 200 metres from the Yaletown-Roundhouse Skytrain Station, and within feet of bus routes 6 and C23. There is also an underground parking lot on the premises, with an entrance off Drake Street. Parking is $4 per hour.
The Roundhouse features accessible rooms, an elevator to reach the second floor, and accessible washrooms. For more information, please contact the Roundhouse at [email protected]
