Identity is not something we decide by ourselves. It is strongly connected to how we perceive ourselves and accept the true side of us. It is a blend of our personality, our traits, and our realization of culture and tradition.
The concert attempted to cover all aspects of our evolution as human beings and artistic identities: a “Lullaby” to fall asleep, a “Dream” as virtualization of our vision, “Dolan” as a dedication to everyday life and common struggles, “Bayawan” describing the bright sparkles of life and finally, “Roma” and “Panjir” to celebrate acceptance and reconciliation with ourselves and culture.
Missing my hometown provided a lot of inspiration for this concert. I feel lucky I was able to express and translate this feeling to music and I learned more about myself through this process. This process of exploration revealed parts of my past and formed my identity.
The. My concert acted as a parabole for myself; my identity has been continuously evolving into a sum of my past and my present. It has been heavily and inevitably affected by tradition, Uyghur culture, my colleagues and the environment I live in. From personal perspective, forming an identity is a recurrent process as it involves both past and present. In other words it is formed by what currently happens. And what currently happens is our contribution which is affected by the representations of our past. The result of this project was an interpretation of my culture and background as it has been influenced through a multicultural environment, both musically and personally. A process of continuous interaction between cultures and identities
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