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.
SOUND ART
Voices from Behind the Veil, 21:30, 2004 -
(In Arabic & English)
Veil excerpt: 2:30
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.