Author: Yara Asmar
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everyone i love is sleeping and i love them so so much
https://yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/everyone-i-love-is-sleeping-and-i-love-them-so-so-much “Most recorders were one track. The one I have has 4 tracks. I slaved away for so long before I could afford it! I dreamt of it for so long. Every time I passed in front of the store, I would look at it. One day, we were recording outside on the microphones. We…
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Late Junction/BBC 3
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cp81 “Verity Sharp shares the fruits of our latest exclusive collaboration session, a meeting of multi-instrumentalist and puppeteer Yara Asmar and Glasgow-based Scots singer and interpreter Quinie. Yara Asmar makes use of lo-fi recording methods and works with a range of sound sources including the accordion, voice, field recordings, metallophone, deconstructed and disassembled toys, and…
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Score for 3 adjacent rooms
Text-based chance compositions for three mechanical disc-playing music boxes, datamosh image transfers Exhibited at Abrons Arts Center as part of Screen Memories. SCREEN MEMORIES considers the experience of mass media in the Arab world for a generation of artists who grew up in the early 2000s, at the tail end of network television’s popularity. Using video and…
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A closer listen’s Joseph Sannicandro reviews ‘stuttering music’
“Asmar’s approach to the accordion is all the more enchanting as it is so far removed from the instrument’s stereotypical associations, none of the shuffling rhythms or sentimental melodies.”… “When Stuttering Music finally fades out, just flip the tape and begin again. ”
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The 3rd House
I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. – Gaston Bachelard “As part of Berlin Art Week 2024, Galerie Noah Klink is delighted to present the exhibition The Houses Of The Serpent Bearer. The 3rd House, initiated by Pina Bendfeld. This show is an…