Carrying out improvised transfiguration on the first photographs and recorded music of the Arab world - a selection taken from the archives of the Arab Image Foundation and the AMAR Foundation in Lebanon- a different journey is proposed to the spectator at each performance.
Strange Land is an AV performance that examines the foundation of memory through the associations, impressions and paradigms of recording. It is an exploration of the recording as a trace and as sonic material that will be transformed and reinterpreted by means of analog, acoustic and digital methods. Strange Land also aims to inquire the structures of colonial domination at work during most of the 20th century in a fluctuating back and forth between strangulations and escapes, shadow and light, dissonance and harmony.
It is the history of the Middle Eastern region and its modernization that is told and questioned.
Video: Randa Mirza
Music: Youmna Saba.
https://vimeo.com/789438878
Strange Land is an AV performance that examines the foundation of memory through the associations, impressions and paradigms of recording. It is an exploration of the recording as a trace and as sonic material that will be transformed and reinterpreted by means of analog, acoustic and digital methods. Strange Land also aims to inquire the structures of colonial domination at work during most of the 20th century in a fluctuating back and forth between strangulations and escapes, shadow and light, dissonance and harmony.
It is the history of the Middle Eastern region and its modernization that is told and questioned.
Video: Randa Mirza
Music: Youmna Saba.
https://vimeo.com/789438878
Duration (minutes)
40
What is needed
MUSIC:
BACKLINE
• 1 x 4 input power bar
• 1 x DI Box for pick up (piezzo) mic
• 1 x Phantom power
• 2 x DI for stereo outputs for my sound card
MICROPHONES
• 1 x Sm58 for vocals
• 1 x Condenser Mic for oud eg: Neumann KK (or ribbon Mic if available)
VIDEO:
1 Screen 4x3m (please check Stage Plan)
1 Video projector 5000 lumens minimum
1 VGA cable (VP and computer have to be on the same electrical circuits)
What the artists brings
MUSIC:
• Oud: music instrument
• Midi controlers
• Computer
VIDEO:
• Camera
• Midi controlers
• Computer
