1000 Pounds to Survive Us (B.U.I, Matt Cargill, Kareem Samara and Ayesha Hameed) close their month-long residency at Mosaic Rooms with a special improvised performance staged in the garden.
Their time at Mosaic Rooms formed part of sounding towards - - dedicated to daily practice, playing in and with the building, and inviting other musicians, noisemakers and thinkers into the space to shape what followed.
This closing performance reflects weeks spent in that exchange, a month spent listening, building and improvising together.
Bio
1000 Pounds to Survive Us came together as part of a fundraiser for the Gaza Sunbirds at Café Oto in 2025. Made up of B.U.I, a poet and sound-maker whose practice echoes themes of temporal fracture, nguni cosmology and being a Londoner; Matt Cargill, original member of Sly & The Family Drone who uses live performances with a mixture of electronics and acoustic instruments, creating unpredictable and immersive experiences; Kareem Samara who explores the fragile, violent and personal histories between the oud and contemporary Palestinian performance practice; and poet, writer and artist Ayesha Hameed who amplifies subaquatic legacies of indenture, transatlantic slavery and illegalised migration.
1000 Pounds to Survive Us (B.U.I, Matt Cargill, Kareem Samara and Ayesha Hameed) close their month-long residency at Mosaic Rooms with a special improvised performance staged in the garden.
Their time at Mosaic Rooms formed part of sounding towards - - dedicated to daily practice, playing in and with the building, and inviting other musicians, noisemakers and thinkers into the space to shape what followed.
This closing performance reflects weeks spent in that exchange, a month spent listening, building and improvising together.
Bio
1000 Pounds to Survive Us came together as part of a fundraiser for the Gaza Sunbirds at Café Oto in 2025. Made up of B.U.I, a poet and sound-maker whose practice echoes themes of temporal fracture, nguni cosmology and being a Londoner; Matt Cargill, original member of Sly & The Family Drone who uses live performances with a mixture of electronics and acoustic instruments, creating unpredictable and immersive experiences; Kareem Samara who explores the fragile, violent and personal histories between the oud and contemporary Palestinian performance practice; and poet, writer and artist Ayesha Hameed who amplifies subaquatic legacies of indenture, transatlantic slavery and illegalised migration.