Musical performance by Max and Rahul at AFD

Two-day multidisciplinary musical and theatrical performance titled ‘Made in Bangladesh’ by Max Vendervorst of Belgium and Rahul Ananda of Bangladesh will be held today at Alliance Francaise de Dhaka, Dhanmondi and tomorrow at French International School of Dhaka, Baridhara.

Max Vendervost of Belgium and Rahul Ananda of Bangladesh have collaborated on the multidisciplinary music and theater project titled ‘Made in Bangladesh’. In this project, they will use and merge parts of the rickshaw and bicycle to create euphonic harmony. This project has been in development at Alliance Francaise premises for the past week as they have worked together to make it a reality. The one-hour performance will feature a theatrical journey of a boy fascinated with bicycles, as well as a musical battle between Bangladeshi and Belgian artists.

The project is part of the EUNIC cluster in Bangladesh (Alliance Française, Goethe-Institut, British Council, Spanish Embassy, and Embassy of the Netherlands) and the EU Delegation in Bangladesh. The project is also sponsored by SUEZ international and I’M Export Ltd.

Max Vandervorst is a composer and inventor of musical instruments. He has put together several performances, showcasing instruments he created using a wide variety of objects as raw material since 1988. ‘Symphony for Abandoned Objects’, ‘Concerto for Two Bicycles’, ‘The Man from Spa’, and ‘The Paper Orchestra’, have all been performed numerous times in many different countries including Bangladesh.

Born on 30 June 1976 in Habiganj, Rahul Ananda is the lyricist, composer, and vocalist of the vastly popular band ‘Joler Gaan’ in Bangladesh. The band makes new instruments and sometimes customizes foreign ones. The instruments of Joler Gaan are usually portable and do not require electric wires and jacks. Besides, Rahul Anand plays the flute, clarinet, and mandola. The fine art graduate is also a freelance visual artist and theater activist.