Assassin’s Creed video games fans, unite! Paris expects them in 2022 to experience the saga in music. On Saturday October 29, 2022, head to the Grand Rex in Paris to discover a unique musical experience performed for the event “Assassin’s Creed Symphonic Adventure”.
The sound of the oud contributes a wealth of colour, magic, and emotion to the music of video games, drawing on centuries of Middle Eastern tradition and splendour to tell authentic stories in novel ways.
The oud is one of the most beautiful, ancient, and ubiquitous instruments in the Middle East and North Africa. An ancestor of the Medieval Lute, its reach extends across multiple cultures in Asia and Eastern Europe. With double coursed strings and a fretless neck, the oud sings with a deep warmth and a shimmering resonance all at once, like a combination between a string instrument and a human voice. It sings of joy, mourns with sorrow, dances in ecstasy, and sits still in contemplation. It is a sound that carries with it the history of the Middle East and the songbooks of countless generations.