Conversation with performance-maker Aslam Abdus-samad about his latest multi-disciplinary and multi-media work 'I Can't Sleep' showing as part of 2023 March Dance festival at the East Sydney Community and Arts Centre 17 and 18 March.

Conceived through tired eyes, I Can’t Sleep is an interdisciplinary solo performance entwining autobiographical stories and folklore to examine sleeplessness.

More about Aslam: https://www.instagram.com/aslamaland/

Sympoiesis radio show is produced on the Gadigal land of the Eora nation, traditional custodians of this land. We pay our respect and gratitude to the elders past, present, and yet to come.

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PRESENTER/INTERVIEWER: Ira Ferris (www.instagram.com/artemisprojects)

EP44: March Dance (Aslam Abdus-samad - I Can't Sleep)

Deshice De Mi

Mi Eje

SONIDO GALLO NEGRO - EUROPEAN TOUR 2015

15.03.2015 – ES – Lleida – Mud. Festival Músiques Disperses
20.03.2015 – FR – Lyon – ElectroChoc Festival
21.03.2015 – BE – Dixmuda – AB-Clubcircuit – AB @ 4AD

Sonido Gallo Negro (Black Rooster Sound) is a stunning 9-piece, instrumental combo from east Mexico City (Aragon) that channels both the mystique and mysticism of 1960’s Peruvian cumbia. The band integrates styles like Amazonian cumbia, huayno, sonidero cumbia, boogaloo and chicha with electric guitars, Farfisa organ, Theremin, flute and of course fluid Latin percussion. Spaghetti western soundtracks, psychedelia and surf music also echo in their compositions.

The name of the song 'Chamula (métete)' comes from San Juan Chamula, a little town in Chiapas (a Mexican state in the South of the country). Most of the people there are Chamulas and Tzetzales (Mexican first nation) and their lives are full of traditional sounds and a unique way of seeing the Universe. The song documents a cruel battle between the Chamulas and Tzetzales and the state Goverment in 1869. 



Sonido Gallo Negro - Chamula (métete)

Colonna sonora dell'omonimo lavoro di video-danza della coreogra Laura Boato ispirato al pensiero di Michelangelo.
"Marmo" è stato prodotto da Nancy Allison e montato da Laura Cappellesso.

Marmo

Untangle the Roots

Julien Mier - New Eyes (Daisuke Tanabe Remix)

What does a gut feeling sound like?

Eleanor Zurowski, this year’s columnist, is producing sonic responses in response to each issue of Framework in 2019. Each piece will be an accumulation of field recordings, samples, lecture snippets, spoken word and contemporary music. For this issue, Eleanor is exploring the fugitive eruptions of, and leaks from, the body. Breathing in, crying out, rumbling, whistling, swallowing spit, belching, erupting into tears; extra-linguistic moments when our bodies speak for – or to – us. 

Read Framework: https://www.arc.unsw.edu.au/art-design/framework

Tracklist:
ASMR Ear Tease Mouth Sounds and Light Breathing - Stephanie7Whispers
Trumps Border Wall Speech But Just The Breathing - Destiny Leaks
Prologue - a.rawlings
ב I│0 א (Our Whispers Are an Ocean) -  Leah Caroline and Jeremy S-Horseman
Can I Hold the Mic (interlude) - Solange
Plate of Order 秩序之灾 - Pan Daijing
Pain - Hannah Silva
Like Right Now - Stine Janvin
Cyclicality - Odeya Nini
Dear Myself (VOCAL EXPERIMENTAL) - Abiyya Ladangku
Refrigerator Defrosting - Anne Tardos and Jackson Mac Low
Sublingual - Dave Jackson
Bald Mountain Zaum Poems - Dada Group
iinnnn mm m my y yy ww wwaa y yyy - LOFT
The Pitch Sisters (stereo edit) - Ain Bailey
Improvisation 1 - Viv Corringham
If a Voice Like, Then What? - Gregory Whitehead

Image: Hannah Black (2016), ‘Dark Pool Party’, Dominica/Arcadia Missa, p. 43.

What does a gut feeling sound like? - Eleanor Zurowski - Framework #25

Conversation with Swedish artist Fanny Hellgren whose works explore the properties and agencies of materials - be it paper, concrete, cloth, or water - and the way they transform when exposed to the elements such as sun or time. 

In this podcast recorded in Belgrade, Serbia where Fanny was on an artist residency, we delve deeper into Fanny’s interest in materiality and in-between spaces, the process and methodology of making works, her preferred ways of exhibiting them, and what role patience plays in both making and viewing art.

Fanny's website: http://www.fannyhellgren.se/

Jingle designed by @trevorbrownmusic

Conversation with artist Fanny Hellgren (May 2019, Belgrade)

Recorded in the garage of Artemis Residency, Zagreb
sounds featured are:-
air conditioning
garage door slam
garage door lock
drain pipe
garage door springs
percussive hits on garage door

Artemis Garage

Houses II

The house that was growing, 
while you were cooking,
had too much concrete,
too many doors  and 
too many crevices
to become a home.

It had too many walls,
against which anger and sadness were banging,
without being flushed through the drain.

The silence of long afternoons,
needles knitting by themselves,
chamber pots motionless under the beds. 

There were no blankets woollen enough
to cover the winter evenings
and mornings that followed.

The switched on lights were signals falling through.
Slides of words were bouncing off big heavy carpets
like dust
on the floor.

Words: Manca Klun
Sounds: Alessandro De Oliveira Bastos

Houses II

PODCAST-CONVERSATIONS with artists and art theorists, from visual to performing arts, discussing conceptual frameworks and philosophical outlooks. Also some SOUND-COLLAGES, assembled together on variety of themes, such as: sleep, silence, intuition, collaboration, failure, and more. 

Available via iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artemis-projects/id1462300886

PRODUCER & HOST: Ira Ferris (https://www.artemisprojects.com.au/projects-ira-ferris)

EP44: March Dance (Aslam Abdus-samad - I Can't Sleep)

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