How do we hold on?



2022 · sound composition and live performance · 9 min 06 sec








               
The field recordings of Marseilles' Noailles neighbourhood provide a fragmented foundation to consider connections of self, community, proximities, and historical migration routes.

A diary-like composition that leans into the artists experience of the diaspora and brings to attention the chaos of distant yet familiar surroundings.Elongated murmurs, fragments of sidewalk hustling, and live busking is stitched together into a fluid yet busy soundscape. Roundtable Discussion: An audio response to 'May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth' exhibition by Abbas and Abou-Rahme at The Common Guild, Glasgow.

In a live setting, a prose, spoken in English acknowledges the varied degrees of diasporic experience and displacement; a polyphonic gesture towards fractured individuals and communities.

Commissioned in 2022 for The Common Guild, Roundtable series.

Performed with live spoken word by Carina NicHaouchine, 2022, and by Hannan Jones for Radiophrenia, 2023.

Re-composed and installed in 2024 for the exhibiton Foresight &. Fiction with an infinite tape, 12 m · Pioneer SX-408 stereo receiver · Pioneer CT-200 cassette deck · Bang & Olufsen S45 speakers.