As part of the Biennale d'Aix and Chroniques

Creative residency.

LABgamerz presents Youmna Saba's new sound performance, the result of a multi-part research and creation residency throughout 2024. 

For Akwan (universes), the artist explores heritage sites in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille to understand their acoustic imprints, their interactions with the various sung phonemes of Arabic and their effects on compositional strategies, using her voice and her instrument: the oud. The voice is explored in its intrinsic musicality and its manifestations across different languages, focusing on its accents, pauses, noises, timbres, jerky or flowing rhythms, tics, whispers, buzzes, repetitions; the voice as an acoustic phenomenon that is shaped by the environment and, in turn, takes a leading role in modeling the sonic identity of a space.

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Akwan (universes)
Youmna Saba
Residence
Mon. 21 -- Mon. Oct. 28, 2024
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Youmna Saba
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