2019

CONCERT - VIDEO MAPPING


BEIRUT THE SEA LOVER


Milad Tauk, Elie Barrak

Lebanon / Creation 2019



Friday 14 June 2019, 9:00 pm

Roman Baths, Beirut Downtown

"Beirut the Sea Lover", as Samir Kassir called it in his book "The History of Beirut", is a live performance of 3D mapping, sound and light, and storytelling. The show is combined with a concert that celebrates the Lebanese song and praises the city of Beirut through its historical and contemporary architecture and its relationship to memory.


A mesmerizing trip down memory lane, the performance makes the audience travel back in time, from the ancient times of Berytus to the French mandate, the post-independence, the golden age, the civil war, and the reconstruction of the capital.


Music and images are brought together to revive and relive the collective memory. The performance celebrates the magnificence of Beirut as a major link between East and West.


The musical performance, created and led by Elie Barrak, brings back to life the most famous songs that echo the cityʼs storyline with new arrangements that combine classics, traditional and popular songs, jazz, swing, rap, and tarab.


The eclectic choice of melodies perfectly reflects the cosmopolitan buzz of Beirut with all its contrasts that have given the city its unique character and made it the performing arts hub in the Middle East.

Written and directed by Milad Tauk


Music arranged, orchestrated and conducted by Elie Barrak

Vocalists Nader Khoury, Diala Saab, Ingrid Naccour, Venus, Beatlalipos

Sound equipment Fadi Zalloum

3D sound mixing Jean-Pierre Boutros


Musicians

Violin Mohamed Elbreft, Charbel Bou Antoun, Mohamed Nasser

Cello Vicky Morkos

Qanoon Maguy Makhoul

Trumpet Elie Njeim, Geovanni Hachem

Trombone Jamal Nassr

Saxophone Nidal Abou Samra

Flute Kevork Kechichian

Nay & Mizmar Tony Sweid

Accordion Chady Saad

Bass guitar Bashar Farran

Guitar Shant Bajac

Percussions Ibrahim Jaber

Drums Alberto Kassabian

Tabla Wassim Helo

Riqq David Estephan

Katem Hani Nweiry


Band Manager & Coordinator Mandy Charbel



Video projection equipment Amir Touma

3D mapping & special effects KIWI JAM

3D mapping implementation Tarek Kiameh

Drone operator & editor Tony Partamian 

Video projection operations Jihad Abou Jaoude


Lighting equipment Nassib Madi

Lighting operation Joe Saad


Stage construction Bar-Deco


Technical manager Peter Abdallah

Technical director Peter Abdallah


Executive producer Denise Taouk


Archives Télé Liban and Bahij Hojeij


Making-of Jean Pierre Abdeyem

Assistants Gerard Bitar, Serouj, Elissa Salhani, Maria Aoun, Georges Joekhadar


Production Beirut Spring Festival, Samir Kassir Foundation



Milad Tauk is a creative director based in Beirut, Lebanon. He obtained his Master of Art – Director of Photography in Cinema and Television. He is today the head department of Cinema and Television at the Lebanese University of Beirut. He worked in more than 40 films with international large scale.

Elie Barrak is a Lebanese renowned pianist, composer and arranger based in Beirut, Lebanon. He obtained a diploma in piano teaching, composition and orchestration in London. He performed with many international artists such as Sarah Brightman, the late Aboud Abdel Aal and other renowned artists.

A show full of images, sounds, memories that have come a long way. Beirut, a perfume, Beirut an ethereal beauty. The magical Beirut.

– Feuilles Blanches



A High quality show with artists of a great passion and beauty.

– Yakzan Taki, journalist and cultural critic



It is an immersion in both, the nostalgic and festive past, or rather all the pasts of Beirut.

– L’Orient-Le Jour


Performed on the bathsʼ central staircase, the musicians appeared to float in the middle of the Mediterranean, as crashing waves were mapped onto the steps.

– The Daily Star

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