Author: Yara Asmar
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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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Sonatina for 19 Music Boxes
Music composed for 19 music boxes to be played by members of the audience as an opening piece for a performance for accordion and metallophone. Performed in Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald in the Black Forest.
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Music for Corridors (and Other In-Between Places)
Music for corridors is a series of performances put together by Yara Asmar: An attempt to take over a site that would otherwise be inactive, and work with its natural reverb and resonance – music that is born in a place and that dies the moment it is evacuated. So-called liminal spaces in physical limbo. …
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Jumana
Piece for accordion, tin toys and toy piano. Appears in The Wire Magazine’s 40th volume of ‘Below the Radar’, as well as the Norient compilation curated by Rayya Badran.