Bint Mbareh: Tidal Memory | Part 2

 

Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in Palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similar to being enveloped by a water body. She challenges Settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.

Tidal Memory explores the flows of information passing through time using sampling, sound and research into Bob Quinn's films around historically possible hypotheses. The palimpsestic nature of the sounds implies allowance and encouragement of multiple histories intertwining, but also the politics of power that allow certain historical narratives to triumph while others are suppressed.

Tracklist:
Mohammad Imran - The god of all creatures knows what is inside our hearts
Ann Cuilin - Traditional Irish Air
Tai Shori and Hiteniat (Coptic Easter Divine Liturgy 2024) – Choir of the Theological Seminary, conducted by Muallem Ibrahim Ayad
Shada Mustafa (TEN) - from Reworlding: Ramallah Short Science Fiction Stories from Palestine
GnÄw - II - From Kuartz
Assata - An Autobiography
Merope - Aglala
Nadia Saleh - Life-Land from Valley of Words, an anthology of writing from Earl Marshal School, Sheffield
Haykal, Julmud - A'saab
An Otro Gergezeg (Scealamhrain Cheilteacha - M. François Richard) (Pommerit)
Kathryn Yussof - A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Suleiman Gamil - Valley of the Kings and Queens
Lady Lykez - Ironheart
Speaker Music - Futurhythmic Bop
Ink - from Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn
Haykal, Julmud, Acamol - Sahbi Yisoon
Dawud Logic - Al-Akhth Bil-Asbab