A choir session designed specifically for non-musicians. This invocation questions where the voice begins and ends. Is speech really the highest form of communication? What can we do with our voices when we're not afraid of failure, and what can we learn that can't be neatly placed into language?
This event is part of Bint Mbareh's residency in sounding towards - - that will unfold as a series of events: a non-musicians' choir, secret jams, workshops, silent reading hours, and listening and sharing sessions. Her takeover explores how people can learn together outside the reach of failed or deteriorated institutions, tracing where learning happens spontaneously, not in systematic ways.
Bio
Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in Palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. She challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.
A choir session designed specifically for non-musicians. This invocation questions where the voice begins and ends. Is speech really the highest form of communication? What can we do with our voices when we're not afraid of failure, and what can we learn that can't be neatly placed into language?
This event is part of Bint Mbareh's residency in sounding towards - - that will unfold as a series of events: a non-musicians' choir, secret jams, workshops, silent reading hours, and listening and sharing sessions. Her takeover explores how people can learn together outside the reach of failed or deteriorated institutions, tracing where learning happens spontaneously, not in systematic ways.
Bio
Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in Palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. She challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.