At The Sonic Front
In this workshop, we will be focusing on the relationships between sound, silence, time, and space, and their positions and configurations within multiple layers of everyday life and practice, and in relation to the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
Taking off from a multi-layered reading of Memory for Forgetfulness by Mahmoud Darwish and Gazan testimonies; analysing possible relationships among lived experience, the writing of history, events, structures, and language – from writing and narrating the Nakba to the current transformations of time and space in Palestine under the ongoing genocide, not from a theoretical or intellectual position, but from a conscious and committed one.
Through listening, thinking, and mapping exercises, vwe will explore and discuss questions on solidarity, engagement, everyday practice, and activism.
Dirar Kalash is a Palestinian musician and sound artist whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of instrumental, compositional and improvisational contexts. He is mostly known for his politically driven soundscape / electro-acoustic project "The Sonic Front", and the compositions "we can't breathe (for eric garner, george floyd, and frantz fanon)" and "by any means necessary (for Malcolm X)"
