hopePlate 539 · Erbil, Iraq

Erbil Citadel

A tell of a city continuously inhabited, a hill that is itself the monument.

continuous 6,000 years · Successive inhabitants · Middle East

The chamber score

Taqsim in Maqam Rast

Munir Bashir · Iraqi oud

The maqam was invented near these ziggurats.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The UNESCO citadel of Erbil, among the longest continuously inhabited urban sites.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Erbil Citadel through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

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Shift the feeling

What if Erbil Citadel was rebuilt as something else?

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One question. Stay in the room.