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Bayt Yakan - Luca Nasciuti
Out April 18
Comprised of field recordings and the situated playback of performance walks, ‘Bayt Yakan’ is Luca Nasciuti's attempt to mark and map a famed historic house in Cairo, Egypt.
The home of Bayt Yakan dates back to 1640 and its recent renovation has attempted to highlight its contemporary architectural hybridity as one way of reflecting on Egypt's own complex and layered histories.
Nasciuti re-located from London to Cairo in 2020 and this document was produced during the time he spent living in the city to 2023.
The album features five edited recordings of playback performance walks recorded within the walls of Bayt Yakan. The echoes of Nasciuti's footfalls, movements and activations resounding in the complex spaces of the house.
During the walked performance, pre-recorded material was broadcast via a portable loudspeaker. In the interactions between these mobile broadcasts, and Nasciuti's performances and the soundings and quietenings these involve, this particular encounter with Bayt Yakan unfolds.
His slow journey within the building brings together soundscapes from both inside and outside, inviting listeners to engage with the multiple layers of audibility that resound and fall silent in this historic site.
Bayt Yakan serves as a reminder of the interactions between history, memory and embodied experience that produce our lived environments. With this attempt to walk and sound in this complex space, Nasciuti seeks to highlight the complexity of urban regeneration and cultural conservation.
What is saved, lost, heard and not heard?
Bakt Yakan, Cairo, residents and passers by collide and converge in this location where time itself might be thought of as a loop, bringing with it traces of presence and absence, memory and forgetting.
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Bayt Yakan is a home in historic Cairo al-Darb al-Ahmar restored and opened to the community by Ola & Alaa el-Habashi.
Instagram: @ bayt_yakan
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Ghost Artery - dogs versus shadow
Out March 2025
A sonic investigation of the history and decline of Nottingham's River Trent in two acts.
In 1938 when the River Trent was being dredged by the Trent Navigation Company, workers encountered obstructions in the form of wooden stakes driven into the riverbed. Following an investigation by archaeologists it was concluded that the site was part of a Bronze Age ‘pile settlement’ formed of houses on stilts 3000 years ago. Now dislodged and disturbed the remains of this settlement began bubbling to the surface, changing the landscape around it.
Ghost Artery by dogs versus shadows scores this swirl of history with the contemporary realities of the highly polluted River Trent. He explains "the work is a sonic exploration of the once thriving River Trent’s decline, imagined as ghosts poisoning the arterial waterway - causing the link between people and place to deteriorate." The River Trent catchment was hit by over 30,000 sewage spills in 2022 leading to a dramatic decline to aquatic life, and at times rendering swimming a danger to human health.
As dogs versus shadows notes: "To the casual observer, the river is always as it was. Beneath the surface however, the ghosts are awake…"
In this complex work comprised of field recordings, tape loops, dying vocals from broken dictaphones and snatches of shortwave radio, Ghost Artery tunes us into the ghoulish realities awash within our rivers and the multiple ways these weaken our connections to each other, and the past.
Reference to sewage spills in Trent: www.trentriverstrust.org/a-big-stink-sewage-in-the-trent-and-tributaries/
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Rubber Band Music - Kate Carr
Out March 2025
bright lines stretched thin,
spring back and creak,
little slingshot.
a temporary bundle.
these desk-bound daydreams,
of rubber trees and sap.
let's snap and break.
Experiments with building and playing rubber-band noise boxes.