Recollecting

Artist's note 

The piece called recollecting is about trying to go back to the lost normalcy of life pre-lockdown. In Lebanon, as well as a few other parts of the world, there was a sort of revolution, a stand against the horrible deeds of the ruling class against its own people. We are also living through an economic collapse as well as one of the biggest non nuclear explosions in the heart of the city. So basically a lot has been lost. The sounds try to recollect the ambiences precollapse/revolution/lockdown/explosion and the impact of losing touch with the memory. The piece is made of found and recorded sound, synthesizers, effects and noise. It is heavy and incohesive, like what we are going through at the moment.

Introduction

Inside the vinyl greenhouse, a semi-cylinder-shaped plant pavilion, corns are growing amid various sounds in the background. The sounds that one might think of as noise are, in fact, the recordings from complex situations before and after the events facing countries in the middle of political and social collapse. It's also a synthesized fake sound of depression and anxiety. This is the landscape inside the vinyl greenhouse where the pristine nature and the chaotic sound of civilization are mixed. As nature has never changed, even when the world is in chaos, the corns inside the greenhouse keep growing regardless of it.