Mixed Bag.... (Tracks) Part 1

Orbital

Tracks + Excerpts from Performances & Sound Installations

Sound Art/Field Recordings 2

MAP09
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/aeroplanes-puddles

“This recording is based on a particular geographic area of Sydney: the industrial zone around Sydenham Train station. As with many inner city industrial areas in large cities all over the western world, this place is ripe for redevelopment. However, in this case, due to the zone being directly underneath the flight path to Sydney airport, as well as being flood prone due to environmental factors, unscrupulous property developers are not able to completely gut the place and erect hideous apartments. What is interesting to me, and what this recording aims to capture, is that these factors – the aeroplanes and the puddles – act as a form of resistance to the development.” (MP Hopkins) 

MP Hopkins is a hidden treasure from Australia, a sound artist known for his varied music projects and strange mix of lo-fi urban field recordings and intimate bedroom experiments. Sonic details of empty streets from close neighbourhood, subtle intervention and fragments of lonely voice comments are reminding distinctive forms of sound journalism or a diary for night adventurers. Aeroplanes & Puddles follows the previous Traipse - Marrickville (2015) album which is Hopkins's starting point for his walks along the Sydney suburb. 

Mappa presents the sonic evidence of this opposition; the non-human voices of resistance that the aeroplanes and water speak with in this acoustic environment. The work features field recordings of the area garnished with a text narrated by Hopkins which combines fragments of the 2017 Australian Federal Budget speech and parts of ‘The Powerhouse’ – a radio play by Richard Packer (Gargoyle Poets series, 1972).”Feel free floating in the holy sound voyeurism and thorough collection of evidence from the other world at the same time. 

released February 7, 2018 

recorded, mixed and mastered by MP Hopkins 
artwork and design by Jakub Juhás, Richard Čecho 
photos by Nina Pacherová 
released by mappa as MAP09 in 2018

Aeroplanes & Puddles

part 1

part 2

Tokyo Phonographer Union at the Fernandes House, Yokohama, Japan
World Listening Day, July 18 2021
Live stream (archive): https://youtu.be/AdL5gNT6jYo

Part 1:
Marcos Fernandes, Hiroshi Shimizu - percussion
Haruo Okada - Real time soundscape

Part 2: (in order of appearance)
 CarlStone, Haruo Okada, Marcos Fernandes, Hiroshi Shimizu - phonography

Technical support: Hideki Giga Oikawa

Live at the Fernandes House, World Listening Day 2021

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

from the album suikinkutsu no katawara ni released by winds measure.

Lawrence English - Shinjuku Semi

FREE

Lawrence English - Semi Kyushu Japan

Elephant from the album Yellow Bell 
released on Sonic Pieces 2015

Elephant

‘##1 Versions’ follows Num.Lock’s debut release attempting to explore the limits of the potential to recycle and re-contextualise sounds. 

The reinterpretations included here were produced across early 2016, with each contributor given stems for their chosen track at varying stages in its production (before the original versions were complete). ‘##1 Versions’ features a diverse array of styles, from the crescendo-ing glitch of George McVicar’s ‘gUZU’ to Object Blue’s captivating vocal reduction of ‘F45w’. 

The release also features two notably more beatific experiments, West Norwood Cassette Library harking back to early Surgeon releases with a booming recast of ‘AYac’, and Airsilk manipulating ‘uSXY’ into a taut slab of mangled 4/4. 

Mastered by Mattias Fridell.

##1 Versions

F45w [Object Blue Version]

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)

Notion (Radio Edit)

Jessika Khazrik - Ra2i7a رائحة لا تذهب

"Remembrance" is taken from "Invisible Island". Midori Hirano´s follow up album from 2015s "Minor Planet". Handmade LP and CD editions available from Sonic Pieces February 7th.

Midori Hirano - Remembrance

Free Download

Me & U - Cassie (JUN TANAKA Baile EDIT)

Colt

Kith

Blessed

Founded by Slacker and Sam PW, Pseudonym Records is a new label ‘focused on the ethereal, twisted and broken fringes of UK-indebted dance music’ and will make his first stamp with a multi-artist release next month, ‘Corporeal Vol. 1’. Giving us a little taste of what’s to come, Slacker contributes a chugging acid-tinged track ‘Active Dreams’, stepping away from the previous ambient and high NRG jungle records. Another excellent production from the animated artist. 

Pre-order here: https://lobsterrecords.co.uk/collections/pre-orders-coming-soon/products/various-artists-corporeal-vol-1

@sampiercewalker
@sam-black747

Premiere: Slacker - Active Dreams

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

KMRU and Aho Ssan collaborate on a cosmic collision of lacerating sound design and conscious-expanding synth.

All proceeds from the music and painting are donated to Hackney Migrant Centre, a local organisation that provides support to asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in London by offering advice on immigration, welfare, housing and health: hackneymigrantcentre.org.uk

'WFH003' is out December 18th on Hot Desk.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3nyhiDO

@ahossan
@kamarujoseph
@hot-desk

Premiere: Aho Ssan & KMRU - Ruined Abstractions [Hot Desk]

Taken from the album 'Teum (The Silvery Slit)' released as LP and Digital

Okkyung Lee 'Teum (The Silvery Slit)' (excerpt) (SPGRM 003)

@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

Is language a false witness? Is promise information? Exploring the techno-politics of the voice, friendship, counter-information and war, Jessika Khazrik’s composition ‘Only Distance Has a Name .x. Artificial Intelligence Is Work’ attempts to ceremonially subvert the premise of AI as labor that extimately auto-denies itself in alchemical rationalizations. This composition was premiered live in 9-channels at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in 2018 as part of ‘The Exhaustion Project’ curated by Abhijan Toto.  

Recently, the voice has been presented as an agnotologically ubiquitous yet impossible biometric, that could exponentially be replicated through resources as easily accessible as seconds of recorded speech. If singularity is denied to the voice as matter, then what is the promised multiplicity abundant under artificial intelligence as a recognitive accumulation that feigns what is being said yet learns and teaches, most often us secretly? This AI-aided performative composition is conceived, laboured up and trained out of these questions.

Through the statement “Artificial Intelligence Is Work”, the second act grapples with AI as a division, distribution and re-arrangement of labor with a cryptographic and alchemical core. Rather than abolishing work as advanced in the endless dream of automation, the increasing spread of AI creates new forms of work and learning i.e., a re-distribution of labor, alienations and a re-organization of knowledge.

If we look at the ethics purported by some strands of machine learning that build its datasets from data shared by users online, collated and re-used in hidden network architectures and inferences without their explicit knowledge or from images collated by surveillance cameras of pedestrians and passers by that happen to be crossing a monitored environment, we see that so far with Artificial Intelligence – and specifically within machine learning, the tautological statement that ‘everything computable becomes work (whether you know it or not)’ holds a greater truth value than ‘work will become obsolescent’. Can an incomputable cryptography exist?
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Jessika Khazrik (b. 1991 Beirut, based between Beirut and Berlin) is an artist, technologist, electronic music producer and writer whose indisciplinary practice ranges from composition to ecotoxicology, machine learning, cryptography, performance, visual art and history of science and music. Khazrik holds BAs in Linguistics and in Theatre from the Lebanese University and a MS in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT where she was awarded the Ada Lovelace prize. In 2012-13, she was a fellow at Home Workspace Program in Ashkal Alwan, in 2018-19, a fellow at the Digital Earth and in 2020, guest faculty at HfK Bremen. While concurrently working as technologist and researcher in different collective and institutional settings, her work has been presented at The Normandy Landfill, the Stanford Research Institute, CTM Festival, the Arab Image Foundation, Kunsthalle Wien, Les Urbaines, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Times Museum Guangzhou, LUMA Foundation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Amnesty International, Center of Documentary Arts and Research at UC Santa Cruz, her house, the internet, secrets and Theater der Welt, among others.

Jessika Khazrik - Only Distance Has a Name .x. Artificial Intelligence Is Work

Spaces of Faux Intimacies is the first part of a series of interventions unfolding over a year, exploring intimacy in the wake of socially distanced capitalism, digital technologies and the pandemic. 

Today’s neoliberal, hyper-connected society, has capitalised the very notion of intimacy. Screened semblances of emotional abundance are promised to us within only a few swipes away while corporate conglomerates are profiting from our desire for physical and emotional connections. As the pandemic and the accompanying social distancing measures are driving us even further apart, and amid the already existing turbulence around the world, how can we work together to produce new channels of care, social resilience, and affective solidarity? 

"Spaces of faux intimacies" brings together artists of various disciplines to contribute to the discussion with individually commissioned auditory works.

Curated by Katerina Gnafaki for Centrum

The exhibition is part of the Vorspiel program of the CTM and transmediale festival 2021 and made possible with the generous support of Musikfonds, by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.