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Sacred Overtones is a sound recording of my sound installation at the International Public Art Festival, Karachi Ki Khoj, held in February 2020. It documents sounds across different sacred spaces in Karachi, inviting the audience to pay attention to the vibrancy of this pulsating city through the act of focused listening.  This includes field recordings from diverse religious traditions, sects and denominations including the Friday sermons in a mosque, the Sunday service in a church and prayer ritual in a Hindu temple. While sacred spaces are often romanticized in popular representations of diversity, many of these spaces are equally gendered, capitalistic and politicized. The visual representation of such spaces is limited to what the eyes can see but these sound recordings will allow the audience to interpret and extrapolate meanings through a different perspective i.e. an aural one. It is through these soundscapes that we will hear a more nuanced understanding of Karachi- sacred, diverse but all else that it carries along with it.

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