5. Listening to feelings, exploring sound

Ar and Foad are both active within the queer collective fake daughter and have organised artistic programs, parties and political actions together in and beyond höjden studios since its start in 2019. In the fifth episode of drift dialogues they discuss their approaches to music and choreography with a curiosity towards explorations of listening and feeling without a set aim.

 

During the winter of 2024 Foad shared a practice with Ar directing focus towards the small units in music, opening a restricted frame to play with variation, texture and harmony. Ar invited Foad into a visualisation practice that explored the forms we see the world through by defining emotions as imaginary entities with texture, colour and place.

 

Foad Arbabi is a composer, sound designer and song writer. As a self taught producer they have over a decade of experience creating music for performing arts. Foad’s body of work is unique in tone and wide in expression, as of 2024 Foad is working on commissions and self initiated projects whilst undertaking a formal education in musical composition.

Ar Utke Ács is an artist working within contemporary dance and an expanded understanding of choreography. They work with the poetics and politics of the body in the seams of performance, dramaturgy, text, installation and the imaginary. Throughout the past years, they have created works focusing on affect landscapes and subversive poetics of positioning oneself non-verbally, including the performance echoes that was co-produced with MDT (SE) and Dansehallerne (DK). Now they are working on a series of works from the perspective of speculative characters and worlds built on lived experience of dancing with chronic illness.

 

Works mentioned:

Pauline Oliveros’ deep listening practice / scores

Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room