Cantor Arts Center presents Forms & Frequencies, a Thursday night music series featuring musicians and sound artists from the Bay Area and beyond, with special evening hours for audiences to visit exhibitions on view.

Join us on Thursday, December 4 in Cantor’s auditorium for a performance by Sheherazaad, whose contemporary folk-pop synthesis joins a new wave of South Asian diasporic soundscapes. Sheherazaad gleans from Western classical and South Asian sonic lineages, with contemporary voicing that may be described as alternative folk or experimental ballad. Sheherazaad’s original lyricism modernizes certain existing Hindi-Urdu poetic forms, channeling questions of displacement, mother tongue, imagined homelands, and beyond.