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Tracks + Excerpts from Performances & Sound Installations

Written, performed, produced and mixed by Jessika Khazrik
Mastered by Heba Kadry
Score of 'قرابادين Pharmakopeia: On the Hollow Time of Waiting', produced by Rewire Festival

هذا الكون

It's not complicated

Jessika Khazrik - هذا الكون

Short excerpt from a composition made through a recurrent neural network that I trained to simulate my voice, and then I trained my voice to simulate the neural network
للبعد وحده أسماء
نعيد ونكرّر وما
زال الصوت حركة
لا تمحوالأشياء
ولا تعيدها 
إلى مكانها
كخلاء متخيل
أسأله عن
إسمي 
وأسأله 
وأتعب 
من العبارة
فأحلم أن 
اختفي في عالم
حيث المسافة لا
تردّني الى
قربٍ يتوقف
يحلم أن يراني
خلسةً
كخبرٍ يختبئ 
في صورتي
اقتفي الأثر فلا
اكفي خطر
الاكتناف من قبل
اشياء تنظر
ولا تراني
في الأسماء
سمٍّ صغيرٍ
يجمعنا بعيداً
للبعض وحدهم أسماء
ها هي معركتي
وها أنا أصوت
دمّروا اللغة مع صديقات
وحيوانات (ربما
كالموسيقى) خفيّةs

ONLY DISTANCE HAS A NAME .1 للبعد وحده أسماء .١ (with machine learning)

"Never confined to one space": How @jessikakhazrik is fixing the future through techno

Tracklist and Q+A: https://mixmag.net/feature/jessika-khazrik-mixmag-impact-mix-interview

Tracklist and Q+A:

Impact: Jessika Khazrik

Jessika Khazrik - Ra2i7a رائحة لا تذهب

Invited by the deeply trenchant E-Saggila for her @Rinse_france October 2019 episode. Full 2h mix alongside the brilliant @Raw_at found here: https://www.mixcloud.com/RinseFrance/e-saggila-invite-rawaat-jessika-khazrik-22-octobre-2019/ . My mix’ story below: 

For all the bodies in solidarity who cannot be present with us on the streets in these fiery days but want to, you are with us and we are with you. For the sick bodies, the displaced, the exiled, the ghosts and the unborn, I made a mix yesterday thinking of you.  Since Saturday, I have postponed or brought all activities that are unrelated to the revolution to a halt and tried to re-channel into the revolution all that can be. I made this mix on 4 decks, and instead of headphones, I was listening to the sound of videos I have culled from our revolution. I hope this is dynamically channelled through ♥️🔥🦋

-Beirut, the 20th of October, 2019

Jessika Khazrik 4 Rinse FM France - Invitée par E-Saggila 🔥🦋

From Berlin, to Beirut, to the rest of the world.
[April 10, 2020] Total Quarantine. Day Twenty Six.

'Unlock the State' - by Jessika Khazrik @jessikakhazrik .
After the congregational streets of Beirut, what I miss most during quarantine is playing closing sets. Though I recorded this mix while drinking my morning coffee, it totally feels like one; techno-ridden, raspy yet ethereally searching for an exit. I gift this mix to my friends in Beirut and the world who miss raving, chanting and revolting together. I very particularly dedicate it to the outdated and putrid banking system that attempts to hold us and our future captive, but to no avail. Haha no, this one especially goes to the guardians of capital, the root of all classism, climate change, production of ignorance and exclusionary politics, the worst drummers in the world, the military that can no longer surprise us. انهياركم سعيد : )

RADIO KARANTINA | Day Twenty Six - Jessika Khazrik

Ecstatic to share this dream club dance .x. sculpture commission opening today in Reykjavik. I made this mix ‘INTENTION ELEVATION’ following artist Rebecca Erin Moran’s heartwarming invitation to take part in her ‘EVERY BODY HOLDS A BEAT’ project alongside DJs FRZNTE and Chooc Ly and the haunting sculptures of Hallsteinn Sigurðsson. For ‘Hjólið’ / ‘The Wheel’ exhibition celebrating the quinquagenary of The Sculpture Society in Iceland, Rebecca did a really beautiful and inviting gesture of installing disc-shaped concrete dancefloors in between Sigurðsson’s monolithic alloy sculptures that totally look like otherworldly club relics from a past or future time. The attendants of the exhibition and passers-by are invited to dance and occupy with their bodies the dancefloors Rebecca liminally built to play our mixes 💘

I see this as a very important project since it invites people to dance and reconnect with choreographed distance amidst a pandemic, rather than shunning them away from the movements and transmissions of our carrier bodies. This is especially important now when dancing is becoming, in many places, temporarily illegal(!!) rather than spatially adjustable. The framework that Rebecca created with very simple means really touched me in new thought provocations, so I’ll take a further step and confidently say that this project meekly presents one of the many ways that POSTCORONIAL CLUB can take form and that I hope to be seeing further.

I dedicate this mix to the eternalised memory of producer/trailblazer Sigurbjörn Þorgrímsson AKA Biogen. Through Biogen’s trenchant legacy, I was finally able to encounter biopunk in music and be illicitly/musically transported into other bodies. Though this is the first time I present any of my work in Iceland, the Icelandic electronic music scene has been deeply speaking to my heart. Cheers to the Weirdcore collective that Biogen co-founded, thanks for making me feel weirdly at home.
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EVERY BODY HOLDS A BEAT, 2020
Steypa, náttúrulegt litarefni, tónlist
concrete, natural pigment, audio

Með verkinu Every Body Holds A Beat er boðið til afhjúpunar, nærveru í gegnum sómatískar hreyfingar í tíma, athöfn óendanlegra forma. Þrjú dansgólf, þrír DJ-ar, margir líkamar.

Every Body Holds A Beat is an invitation to unfold. Presence thorough somatic movement in time, an act of infinite forms.  Three dance floors, three djs, many bodies.  Clear your mind, transform the inside outside in, and move your flesh to the beats of Jessika Khazrik, and Chooc Ly and FRZNTE.

Every Body Holds A Beat is a collaborative work in three parts, created by Rebecca Erin Moran for the outdoor exhibition ACROSS THE GOLDEN BRIDGE; a group exhibition of 10 members of the Reykjavík Association of Sculptors, in various locations in Grafarvogur. The exhibition is part of an exhibition-series THE WHEEL on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Association.  www.hjolid.is

INTENTION  ELEVATION, Jessika Khazrik 4 Hjólið, Reykjavik – 2020

From Berlin to Beirut, to the rest of the world.
[June 23, 2020] Total Quarantine. Day One Hundred.

Text-to-Scream  by @jessikakhazrik
With Najat Al-Saghira,  MSYLMA, Shaddah Tuum, Aya Metwalli, some of my productions and Eartheater among other multiplicities..

This is a giddy and loving mix, made horizontally while lying down. I’m currently in the early process of recovering from a sudden and severe internal infection, so to avoid pain and the daily postures that are no longer possible, I’m having to spend my days horizontally. As is usually the case with newly experienced medical conditions (that I very much hope never come again), as soon as a symptom disappears, it reappears with 3 novel ones, so the body can’t keep up. This has been, waywardly, channeled through the mix. No dance music this time, just chanting, anti-establishment slurs and some new machine learning mixing techniques recorded live for the first time. 

Happy centennial days Radio KARANTINA! This one specifically goes for our hopefully perennial solidarity with the sick and the possible ✌🏽

RADIO KARANTINA | Day One Hundred - Jessika Khazrik

Mix made for Fil mishmish anti-annexation anti-colonial anti-racist solidarity campaign 4 Palestine, organized by Radio Alhara and aired on the 11th of July 2020.

This mix begins by desiring and deeming solidarity as a common language we are still collectively learning. The economic, securocratic and militarised models of the world that we have been born into alienates us away from a universalist practice of solidarity and collective care that are equally distributed. We need to unlearn these insulations, coalesce and redistribute. A world solidarity that is deeply sensitive to both the local specificities of every struggle and the global economy of war and dispossession as a common oppressor might be our only hope today. Especially at a time where borders are being exponentially fortified through security bills that terrorize congregation, advance racism and deprive us from our rights to assemble, speak out and be in solidarity. Music has always been a congregational force and if assembling and acting in the unconditional love that is solidarity were not powerful harbingers of an alternate world system, they would have not have been increasingly prohibited by the current deadly and stale ones.

Thanks for all the artists who produced the music featured in the mix bringing together tracks by Zuli, Nour Mobarak, Lyra Pramuk, HEXORCISMOS, Najat Al Saghira, Via App, Earwax, CORIN, Relect & M-Project, Baby Vulture, Björk, Abul Mogard, yours truly and many others 🌓

Fil Mishmish ANTI-ANNEX ANTI-COLONIAL ANTI-RACIST Solidarity mix @ Radio Alhara ✌🏽

From Berlin to Beirut [and/or vice versa] 
@jessikakhazrik - Core of Anahita في قعر آنهيتا
System Revival: Beirut Will Rise Again*

Buy the digital album on 
www.systemrevivalrecordings.bandcamp.com

* "System Revival: Beirut Will Rise" Again vol.2 is a compilation from various artists & friends, aimed at raising funds for Beirut, supporting volunteer organizations, and underprivileged families who have been injured, traumatized and displaced from their homes.

A compilation featuring Conor Dalton, Claudio PRC, Artefakt (Robin & Nick), Merlin Ettore, PPSY (Ireen Amnes & October), Kangding Ray, Headless Horseman, JakoJako, Steve Bicknell, Pär Grindvik, Jessika Khazrik, The Outsiders, Brano, John Heckle, UVB, Nene H, Key Clef, Dez Williams, SØS Gunver Ryberg, Electric Indigo, DE:MA, Fell, 3.14, Eddy Kruse, Glowcast Mastering

Artwork: photograph of an original painting by Conor Dalton

More about System Revival on
www.instagram.com/systemrevival

#beirutneedsyouneedbeirut

RK Premieres | Jessika Khazrik / System Revival: Beirut Will Rise Again

@jessikakhazrik - Kushajam's Recital استظهار كُشاجم

The track revisits an Abbasid poem around a cosmic water clock, written by a 10th c. Palestinian poet, logician, physician and chef who was known as 'Kushajam'. It is said that Kushajam lived between Jerusalem, Aleppo, Damascus and Baghdad and was very active in different circles related to rhetorics, Abbasid astronomy, poetry reading and chanting.

CLUB CHAI Vol. 2 is a collection of tracks by artists whose work truly embodies the Club Chai ethos that exists in storytelling through sound. As we close out the label, this release remains a lustrous perspective on the future.

Alongside the compilation, the Club Chai Archive book is out today on our Bandcamp. You can preorder the book alongside the digital release of the compilation for a bundled price of $35 ($15 for the compilation and $25 for the book).

The archive book is a culmination of all the moving parts that make up Club Chai at once – a way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. A way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. How do we remember and archive something that is really made up of a fleeting feeling? Being on the dancefloor with friends, singing in unison or zoning out in complete bliss. It feels right to create something physical that can be held, touched and encountered slowly and 
carefully. Making this book entirely with friends makes it feel even more intimate and special. 

Mastering: 8ULENTINA & Lara Sarkissian

Artwork credits:
Photo: Lara Sarkissian & 8ULENTINA
Textile: 8ULENTINA
Artwork edits & processing: Jessika Khazrik
 
Club Chai Book Design:
Art and Design Direction: Azha Luckman @azhaayanna 
& Peter Dolezilek @topchef_allstars

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Jessika Khazrik - Kushajam's Recital استظهار كُشاجم

Astrophysical, hyperbodily and alchemical, Eazuka Khazrik’s live musical practice is deeply devoted to communal solace, collective transcendence and trans-generational healing. With genre-defying mercurial treatments of voice, drums and space, her sonic scapes intimately investigate the ecological and techno-political premises of continua we inhabit, co-create or forget. Concocting scores from trans-millennial compendia of healing, space and biosensing technologies and on-site/online detritus, her live and hybrid sets are deeply informed by ancestral chanting traditions – like Armenian sharakan, Levantine mawwal and Iraqi radh – skewed with a quaint techno and incomputable entrancing rhythms.

Performing internationally in a wide range of spaces from clubs to museums, theatres and quarries, she ceremonially uses spaces of congregation to search for locally entrenched universalisms that could collectively respond to the dystopias of our times. Her indisciplinary practice as artist, composer, producer, technologist, educatress and DJ also ranges from composition to collaboration, machine learning, visual art, ecotoxicology and history of science and music. In parallel to performing live, teaching speech synthesis and voice-based electronic music production, and producing multi-channel sound installations, Khazrik also composes scores for film, video games and performances and writes about science, cosmology and music. She holds BAs in Linguistics and in Theatre from the Lebanese University(LB) and a MS in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT(US) where she was awarded the Ada Lovelace prize.

She has performed her solo music at ALL(CN, 2018), Ballroom Blitz(LB,2019), CTM Festival(DE,2020), Haus der Kulturen der Welt(DE, 2018), ICA Boston(US, 2015), Les Urbaines(CH,2018),Rewire Festival(NL,2021), SONICA Festival(SI, 2021), Supersonic Festival(UK, 2022), Takseer Festival(DE, 2022) and Theater Der Welt(DE, 2014), among others. Her multi-channel sound installations have been commissioned by and exhibited at ar/ge kunst(IT,2020), Kunsthalle Wien(AT,2020) LACE(US,2017), LUMA Foundation(CH,2017), Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi(PL,2022) and Para Site(HK, 2021) among others. Her essays and short stories have been published in edited anthologies and multiple publications like Bidayat Journal(LB), Zweikommasieben(CH), MadaMasr(EG), Kohl Journal(LB), The Funambulist(FR) and Ibraaz(US) to name a few. Her indisciplinary research-based work has been presented at the Stanford Research Institute(US), the Arab Image Foundation(LB), Birbeck’s School of Law at UCL(UK), Center for Documentary Arts and Research at UCSC(US) and Amnesty International(UK & DE), among others.

Khazrik has been an artist fellow at Home Workspace Programme(2012-13), Digital Earth(2018-19), HfK Bremen(2020) and SHAPE Platform(2021-22) and is at present a fellow at If I Can’t Dance(2022-23) and Helmholtz Center (2022-23). As visiting faculty, she has taught voice-based electronic music, performance and techno-politics at HfK Bremen(DE, 2020), the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel(CH, 2021-22), the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg(DE, 2022-23) and guest lectured internationally. As independent technologist, she has worked on AI policy and digital rights internationally and is the founder of the techno-study group ‘READING COMPUTERS’, the peer-to-peer web platform and study;strategy;solidarity group ‘POST-CORONIALISM’ and the online transclusive research platform ‘خريطة الظلام Cartography of Darkness'. Having grown up around a quarry contaminated with military waste, she has been active in anti-militarist struggles for environmental justice since early adolescence.

For bookings: jessika@posteo.net

Eazuka (Jessika) Khazrik آزوكا خزريك

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