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BINT
SOLVE ET COAGULA → عيب, Stage III: حمراء (The Reddening)
2023Combining all the rhythmic elements of the first two stages, BINT will collaborate live (electronics, sampling, voice) with renowned NY-based tabla player, Roshni Samlal. Presented by ISSUE Project Room as the third installment of BINT’s 2023 residency. Took place at NYU Brooklyn’s “The Garage” space.
Sound art, ritual performance and minimal drone using cassette tape loops, walkmans, guitar pedal, water, glass. 2023.
Running length: 23’ 10”
Date: 10 March 2023
Running length: 23’ 10”
Date: 10 March 2023
Notes from BINT on Stage III: حمراء (The Reddening):
This year culminates with the final stage of transmutation, ‘The Reddening’ (حمراء). This last program is inspired by dhamaal, a lively South Asian type of sem’a, highlighting rhythm and movement.
The past two months have weighed heavy on the world as the events in Gaza have continued to escalate to horrific levels of heartbreak and helplessness everyday. Any impulse to create, make music, even “celebration as an affront” mentioned in the original press release, has been impossible. The only way I could pull through with the show as scheduled is to create a space to gather and channel the red feelings I, we, many of us have been grappling with.
Reddening, less as passionate celebration and more as liberation. The visceral answer of what it is to resist, to unite in solidarity in the face of oppression. Rhythms of resistance. Movement as resistance.
The container of this series has been transmuting collective shame from stories submitted by SWANA folks in diaspora. Some of this will inherently be part of the gathering but I’ve opted to finish working those privately in order to hold space in this way.
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ABOUT THE SERIES
BINT has been collecting anonymous experiences of shame from folks of the SWANA (South West Asian / North African) diaspora. These communally-individual experiences will be the focus of her 2023 residency she is naming "عيب:Solve et Coagula.” Over the course of the year, she will be presenting three commissioned programs mirroring the primary stages of (Arabic) alchemical transmutation. All three programs will be audiovisual immersive sound rituals loosely based on the structure and setting of Sufi sem’a gatherings, in which these collective experiences of shame are transmuted through sound and ritual processing, as experienced through the audience. Sem'a is a traditional Sufi gathering in which a third communal space is created (often underground hidden from orthodox authorities) for active deep listening and collective participatory expressions of devotional music, chanting, and rhythm.
This year culminates with the final stage of transmutation, ‘The Reddening’ (حمراء). This last program is inspired by dhamaal, a lively South Asian type of sem’a, highlighting rhythm and movement.
The past two months have weighed heavy on the world as the events in Gaza have continued to escalate to horrific levels of heartbreak and helplessness everyday. Any impulse to create, make music, even “celebration as an affront” mentioned in the original press release, has been impossible. The only way I could pull through with the show as scheduled is to create a space to gather and channel the red feelings I, we, many of us have been grappling with.
Reddening, less as passionate celebration and more as liberation. The visceral answer of what it is to resist, to unite in solidarity in the face of oppression. Rhythms of resistance. Movement as resistance.
The container of this series has been transmuting collective shame from stories submitted by SWANA folks in diaspora. Some of this will inherently be part of the gathering but I’ve opted to finish working those privately in order to hold space in this way.
