BINT is a musician and interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Working across visual, performance and sound art, BINT applies contemporary methods to the traditional multicultural technologies of her ancestries (Pakistani, Egyptian, American, etc). With a focus on inherited metaphysical tech, her work is interested in the perennial role of the artist-mystic in cultural preservation and liberation work.

As a musician, BINT turns to a palette of dissonance, distortion, long-form drones and noise to access corresponding emotional states in herself and listeners–most known for her unusual approach to processed harmonium and multilingual vocals, through analog synthesis, pedals and cassette tape. In 2019, BINT released Katabasis: Act I, an EP applying dark ambient power electronics and Arabic mother tongue to her classical Hindustani vocal training. She has shown work internationally including performance art commissions for Black Sabbath, the Copro Gallery, Atelier de Mélusine and visual work at Coachella Music and Arts Festival. BINT is founder of The Barzakh, a podcast and educational platform focused on the revival and reclamation of Islam’s rich heritage of the occult and metaphysics. 

In 2020, she founded the Barzakh, a collective, podcast and educational platform revival and reclamation of Islam’s rich heritage of the occult and metaphysics. While the group is on break, BINT still occasionally guest lectures and writes on the aforementioned topics—especially as it relates to communal and individual liberation work in the diasporic experience. Recent appearances, lectures and links could be found on the NEWS page.

BINT is a current 2023 Artist-in- Residence with ISSUE PROJECT ROOM, leaders in NY experimental performance programming.