Melodies are a language & space that welcomes a pictorial vision
Tarik Alarabi with his daughters and son on Ithra stage 2021.
Artist Tarek Al-Arabi
Between the love of music and the challenges of generations, composer Tariq Alarabi talks about his artistic archive and the abundant masterpieces of music that spanned 30 years to the present day. In every pause of his artistic history, his eager audience is amazed by the sweetness of his melodies and the beauty of his words, and his melodies still mix mirth and art with the innocence of childhood. He describes the musical situation at the present time as being modern and keeping pace with the trends of the generation. Each generation has a cultural message that differs from the others, recalling his series of successes and the challenges that established his artistic position.
In an interview with Alarabi, he seeks to document the link between the momentum of various cultural programs for children and their abilities, whether in music, songs, reading, writing, and other various programs; being tools that contribute to enhancing mental abilities and refining self-skills, citing animation songs that have become a memory for several generations.
Tarik Alarabi with his daughters and son on Ithra stage 2021.
Over the decades he worked in children's programs and songs and produced what concerns generations. He tried to deliver intellectual messages to every child in the world in his language and abilities without being dictated to him. Alarabi also devoted most of his attention to “influential literary production”. Therefore, his literary production per year amounted to 660 products composed, between composing, and recording on the Spacetoon channel for cartoon films, adding: “What grabs my attention during the last five years is the interest of several countries, most notably the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in stimulating and increasing children's programs and competitions in order to achieve the desired goal, which combines the development of children's skills and their upbringing. And if we delved deeper into the world of music, we would realize that we are diving into renewed worlds”.
From Alarabi's point of view, purposeful programs and initiatives can create a generation capable of facing challenges. Reading and writing are healthy food to raise an empowered generation, and what seems clear is that music is a wide space with a visual vision.
Alarabi tells us about his future plan, which relies on increasing the number of purposeful entertainment activities that he offers in many countries, including Saudi Arabia, which has made great strides in musical art, by reviving purposeful concerts targeting all age groups, in order to convey an artistic and expressive vision that turns into rich colors that embody tales and stories that gather in the memory of the child, who one day becomes a human resource. “In less than two years, I have presented about 15 activities in several regions of the Kingdom, and currently there are new activities that will be announced in due time, all of which are purposeful and with a new childlike template.”.
Tarik Alarabi with his daughters and son on Ithra stage 2021.
Alarabi believes that musical history is a delightful icon whose composition is not limited to melodies and drawing the final scene for it, but rather a moving tool that creates multiple states, in particular its ability to reshape to preserve memories and the internal balance of the listeners.
The magic of music astonishes its listeners because it is inspired by the reality of life. Alarabi dispels the point of view that music is a temporary state that goes unheeded, saying, "A mixture of forms that music takes, and each time we find a complete difference from what preceded it, so we reach a state that we can describe as amazing."
Alarabi, who has a long history in melodies, has become more like an artistic school that stores the spark of creativity, and appears as a cornerstone for preserving history and identity with cultural authenticity, which is documented in an archive capable of being transmitted smoothly from one generation to the next.
Tarik Alarabi with his son on Ithra stage 2021.