-Excerpt- A special cycle of concerts will also be presented by TDICTDIC in collaboration with the Aga Khan Music Initiative, a programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, that offer a panoramic perspective on Central Asian music through the lens of the musical world of nomads and sedentary dwellers. In the first performance of the series, Voices of Central Asia: Music of the Steppe, Byambajargal Gombodorj brings her mastery of long song (urtyn duu), in which each syllable of text is extended for a long duration; Ulzhan Baibussynova and Ardak Issataeva illustrate the venerable tradition of the bards – solo performers of oral poetry who typically accompany themselves on a strummed lute with silk or gut strings; and Raushan Orozbaeva, offers a performance on the qyl qobyz, an archaic two-stringed fiddle historically linked to shamanic practices
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