"Made in Bangladesh" a multidisciplinary musical and theatrical project performed on June 20 at Alliance Francaise de Dhaka.
Max Vandervorst of Belgium and Rahul Ananda performed the project using and merging parts of the rickshaw and bicycle to create harmony. The one-hour performance featured 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 featured another performance June 21, 2023 at the French International School of Dhaka.
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.
Rahul Ananda is the lyricist, composer, and vocalist of the band “Joler Gaan”. Often creating new instruments, sometimes customising foreign ones. The instruments of Joler Gaan are usually portable and do not require electric wires and jacks.