Tomaž Grom/Raed Yassin at PANDA Platforma

This concert marks the first on-stage encounter between these two powerhouse improvisers.

For Tomaž Grom, music is a medium of communication rather than aesthetic pleasure—a way of seeking, of posing unanswered questions, of allowing a flow of ideas and unpredictable situations. For him, composition is improvisation, and improvisation offers space to lose oneself.

Grom has performed extensively across Europe and North America. He has composed music for theater, contemporary dance, puppet performances, and films. He is the founder and artistic director of Zavod Sploh (Ljubljana), an association dedicated to the production of music and performing arts, as well as education and publishing in the field. He also curates the Sound Disobedience festival and several concert series....

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This concert marks the first on-stage encounter between these two powerhouse improvisers.

For Tomaž Grom, music is a medium of communication rather than aesthetic pleasure—a way of seeking, of posing unanswered questions, of allowing a flow of ideas and unpredictable situations. For him, composition is improvisation, and improvisation offers space to lose oneself.

Grom has performed extensively across Europe and North America. He has composed music for theater, contemporary dance, puppet performances, and films. He is the founder and artistic director of Zavod Sploh (Ljubljana), an association dedicated to the production of music and performing arts, as well as education and publishing in the field. He also curates the Sound Disobedience festival and several concert series.

Raed Yassin is a multidisciplinary artist and musician whose conceptual practice spans video, sound, photography, text, sculpture, and performance. His work often explores personal narrative in relation to collective history, filtered through the lens of consumer culture and mass production.

He graduated from the Theater Department at the Institute of Fine Arts in Beirut in 2003. Since then, he has been an artist-in-residence at De Ateliers (Amsterdam), Delfina Foundation (London), and Akademie der Künste der Welt (Cologne), among others. He is a recipient of the Abraaj Group Art Prize (2012).

As a musician, Yassin co-founded the Irtijal Festival for Experimental Music (Beirut) and has released numerous solo albums as well as collaborative work with groups such as “A” Trio and PRAED. In 2009, he founded the independent label Annihaya. Raed currently lives between Berlin and Beirut.

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