Inner Spaces — Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch
About This Event
At National Sawdust, trumpeter-composer Amir ElSaffar pairs with electronic composer Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch under the project title Inner Spaces. The duo brings ElSaffar’s jazz- and Arabic-informed writing—marked by microtonal nuance and a focus on close listening—to Bianchi Hoesch’s studio-based processing and sound-art practice, moving between acoustic breath and processed sound while treating rhythm and tuning as material.
About Inner Spaces
“Inner Spaces” arrives at National Sawdust as a live New York presentation shaped by trumpeter and vocalist Amir ElSaffar and electronic composer Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch. The project moves between jazz language, Maqam-derived melodic systems, and studio processing performed in real time, treating the hall as part of the instrument. In a city where cross-cultural improvisation has long been a working method, it reads as a continuation rather than a novelty. Its most telling feature is its patience with tuning and texture, asking listeners to hear structure in the in-between.
About the Artists
Inner Spaces — Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch
Inner Spaces pairs trumpeter and composer Amir ElSaffar with electronic musician Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch in a jazz-rooted project shaped by improvisation and studio craft. Their work moves between acoustic breath and processed sound, treating rhythm and tuning as material to be bent and reassembled.
Amir ElSaffar
Amir ElSaffar is a trumpeter, vocalist, and composer whose work moves between experimental and free jazz and the modal discipline of Arabic maqam. At New York City’s National Sawdust, he has appeared as an artist-in-residence and in projects such as Inner Spaces with electronic composer Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, where microtonal detail and studio electronics sit side by side.
Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch
Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch is a composer and sound artist working for theater and dance, soundtracks and interactive installations. His work has been commissioned by many important institutions and performed worldwide.