IMPROVISATION NO. 7, 6:40, 2007
excerpt: 1:40 ⇒ play excerpt
Laptop - Thea Farhadian, Viola - Katrina Wreede
TATTOOS AND OTHER MARKINGS, 29:00, 2006 (Lap-top performance)
Tattoos excerpt 1: 3:20 ⇒ play excerpt
Tattoos excerpt 2: 2:20 ⇒ play excerpt
Tattoos excerpt 3: 1:40 ⇒ play excerpt
Tattoos excerpt 4: 0:48 ⇒ play excerpt
Tattoos and Other Markings explores the experience of memory, weaving together concepts of the old and the new, past and present; traditional and processed sounds from Armenia and Egypt, spoken text, and machine sounds. The piece explores the incompleteness of memory and the places in-between where things are less remembered and memory is more obscured. The voice of Komitas (CD 4275) courtesy of Traditional Crossroads.
VOICES FROM BEHIND THE VEIL, 21:30, 2004 (Two-channel audio work)
In Arabic and English
Veil excerpt: 2:30 ⇒ play excerpt
This sound piece incorporates interviews of Egyptian women on the subject of the hijab (the various head and bodily coverings of Islamic women) into a multi-lingual sound collage of voices, exploring the layers and complexity of this subject. The women are of mixed ages and have different perspective and relationships to veiling.
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