HAT

Growing up in Morocco, Hatim was an award-winning classical pianist, a guitarist, and surrounded by sounds of the country’s Arabic, Amazigh, and Sub-Saharan African origins. At Harvard, he studied sociology, music composition, jazz, and ethnomusicology, but found his voice in electronic music – a medium that opened doors towards unifying his eclectic influences. For the next decade, Hatim composed, produced, and performed in various solo and collaborative projects, under the moniker officerfishdumplings.
In 2012, Hatim founded remix ←→ culture, an international artist collective committed to creating new harmonious links between traditional music and remix art. Carried out with passionate collaborators, the project consists in identifying a country’s various musical traditions, then recording, filming, producing, mixing, and remixing them. Work began in Hatim’s native Morocco, a land uniquely rich in melodies and rhythms of diverse origins and influences, and later expanded to other countries, notably Brazil.
In 2015, Hatim began sharing his work with larger audiences (sometimes tens of thousands) at various festivals in Morocco, as well as at the Lincoln Center in NY, where he performed live remixes of the videos shot by the collective. In 2016 and 2017, Hatim continually premiered new video remixes at various festivals and venues in Europe (notably the Roskilde Festival in Denmark and WOMEX 2016 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain), as well as in China, Réunion, and in the Middle East.
The project has received increasing acclaim since its inception, in countless print, TV, radio, and online media outlets.
“I am delighted to see the work [HAT is] doing, I feel that Moroccan traditional music is a vast treasure that needs to be valued, and bringing it into the digital world as [HAT is] doing is a vital and powerful project.”
-Justin Adams - Guitarist (Robert Plant & the Sensational Shapeshifters)