Mixed Bag (2023) Part ✌

The Bones Of What You Believe

Science/Visions

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Pleased to share the 9th episode of the Kuboraum Digital Sound Residency, hosting Studio LABOUR’s mind-altering soundscape mass and mess, dispersion of subjectivity.

LABOUR is the Berlin-based sonic entity composed by multidisciplinary artists Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander. Bringing together their experience in molecular biology, sound art and post-tonal theory, they compose ambitious and reverently experimental audio works centering around the transformative potential of sound. Their practice promotes active listening and a heightened sensory awareness, interrogating existential questions and the power structures that form our collective reality. Through immersive performances shifting between digital sound synthesis, algorithmic compositions, percussions and vocals, LABOUR explore the juxtaposition of amplified and unamplified sounds within specific architectural spaces.

“LABOUR devise methods of co-existence and distinction through rupture while gesturing towards the possibility of strong, sudden shifts in consciousness.”

'mass and mess, dispersion of subjectivity’ shows their continuing exploration of temporal juxtapositions, merging algorithmic rhythms with cyclical pulsing drum layers to discover alternative notions of time. This new track relates aesthetically to their previous pieces next time, die consciously (بیگانگی) and hit of enlightenment, contemplating on the construction-of-self and the extent to which external forces create us, being heteronomy the condition of all things. Operating simultaneously on multiple temporalities — from microsounds and stochastic synthesis to rhythmic cycles to acknowledging that which propels beyond — these pieces take a critical stance towards notions of regulated time by embracing rhythmic instability and sound as sculptural material.

Their recent performance Sungazing premiered in Kraftwerk during X100 Berlin Atonal (2022) is one of their most extensive works so far, involving an ensemble of 30 drummers, 7 string players, 4 dancers, 2 drum sets, and 3 visual artists, all distributed throughout the audience. Proposed within the framework of Xenakis’ legacy, the performance was described as ‘An ode to the one who pursues an experimental lifestyle, an ode to the avant-garde’. Other commissioned compositions and performances include: Eventide in collaboration with Fa’ Pawaka (2022), Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin ; Sungazing, HAU (2022), Berlin ;  Constructs of Sanity, Musica Sanae, Berlin (2019); nine-sum sorcery, Berlin Atonal (2019); Activating the Gropius Bau, Sonically, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2019); next time, die consciously (بیگانگی), Berlin Atonal (2018); Hacklander’s Activating the Messeplatz, Sonically and Stochastic Activation: Basler Trommeln (with Isabel Lewis), Basilea, Art Basel (2018); conatus/consent, Neue Musik in St Ruprecht, St Ruprechtskirche, Vienna (2015) and Levels of Intrusion, transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2014).

composition and production by LABOUR: Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander
second drummer: Masaya Hijikata
bass clarinet: Yoni Silver
drums recorded by: Francesco Donadello

Photography: Evelyn Bencicova

Kuboraum Digital Sound Residency: www.kuboraum.com/digital-sound-residency/

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Where The Bough Has Broken

Manhattan

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Text:
Verse 1
There’s a shadow on the highway,
where hope once learned to run.
A preacher’s voice on TV,
selling fear like it’s the rising sun.
And people searching for a savior,
followed words made out of gold —
but the gold turned into iron,
and the iron’s growing cold.

Pre-Chorus
They said “Believe in me, I’ll lift you higher,”
but every promise was built on fire.

Chorus
And now the streets have lost their name,
the lines grow deeper every day.
A nation split by a leader’s game —
you deserve the truth, not someone’s fame.
Raise your voices, break the chain,
let the light return again.

(solo)

Verse 2
There’s a family in the suburbs,
struggling harder than before.
While the one who claimed to save them
paints his palace with gilded doors.
Populists rise by division,
they whisper lies into your pain —
but the dream of all Americans
was never meant to end in shame.

Pre-Chorus
They said “I alone can fix it all,”
but every echo became a wall.

Chorus
And now the streets have lost their name,
truth buried under the shouting flames.
A nation tired of the same old blame —
you deserve hope, not someone’s claim.
Raise your voices, break the chain,
let the light return again.

Bridge
Lift your hearts above the noise,
beyond the anger, past the choice.
Democracy is more than one man’s throne —
it’s the people who make a country strong.
You’re not broken, you’re not alone —
the light is yours, take it home.

(solo)

Final Chorus
When the streets regain their name,
and the truth no longer hides in shame,
America will rise again —
guided not by fear, but flame.
Raise your voices, break the chain…
let the light return again.

Manhattan

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