Author: Yara Asmar
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For the one who waits, life is often elsewhere
Sound piece for FRAC Corsica Fréquence FRAC “Yara Asmar combines fragments of aural diaries, field recordings, collected improvisations, and found tapes to conduct an abstract reflection on waiting and choosing to stay. By weaving these different sound materials, she manages to create a floating dimension fully conducive to mental drift.”
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To live by a body of water is to forget it exists
Exhibited at the Grigor Prlichev Cultural Center – Ohrid, Macedonia. Projection onto textiles, field recordings, music.
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L’orient today – An evening in the life of Beirut Art Center
“Asmar hesitates to call her work “experimental.” “It feels to me that a lot of people have experimented in the past for us to play this way today,” she reflects. “The first time someone called me an experimental musician … I felt a bit of a fraud, because … the people who came before really…
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معرض “تشابك ثقفي”… انعكاسات الحزن مع يارا الأسمر وروجيه مقبل
يارا الأسمر قدمت عملين في المعرض، الأول عبارة عن فيديو تجميعي بعنوان “حبيت أكتر لما عشنا على تلة المراجيح”. يقوم هذا العمل على سلسلة من المحادثات والحوارات بين ساعة مهملة وغراب عجوز، لا تجمعهما صداقة حقيقية، لكنهما يحتاجان بعضهما بعضا، فلقد كانا وحدهما في ذلك المكان الذي تبقى من مدينتهما المهجورة. أما العمل الثاني فهو…
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Lake Ohrid Residency – April 1-April 30.
Yara will be in North Macedonia throughout the month of April to work on a sound installation.
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Mr. Samuel’s Teatime Stories for Good Kids & Confused Adults
In a wonky universe set within the fake walls of an old abandoned children’s TV show, Mr Samuel and his friends -peculiar, ugly puppets navigating the strange thing that is time- attempt to make sense of it all through stories, songs and arduous loops of nonsensical chores. A film in four parts. Zizek’s book ‘The…
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Lapses
Field recordings and audio compositions of mourning in real time were assembled into an interactive tape loop installation, where the recordings that emerged from this process can be played simultaneously or sequentially. A sonic exploration of the prison of memory and how it survives through tiny loops, little moments suspended in time. These tapes -the…
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Synth Waltzes and Accordion Laments
Featured in Pitchfork’s 30 Best Jazz and Experimental Albums of 2023, Yara Asmar’s second album Synth Waltzes and Accordion Laments has been described as “a cushion against reality” by The Quietus magazine, in which Daryl Worthington also wrote “Asmar creates music that unfurls in evanescent bliss, an invitation to a safe space both isolated and…
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I Liked it Better When We Lived on See-Saw Hill
Conversations between a discarded clock and an old crow who, despite not being the best of friends, only have each other in what’s left of their deserted town. These videos recount conversations on shared loss between those who “persist” – people who stay, people who remain after death and loss. Conversations on what it means…
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