Author: Yara Asmar
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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.
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Home Recordings (2018-2021)
“Hive Mind are thrilled to be working with Yara Asmar and to bring you this wonderful debut album of music she recorded at home on cassettes and a mobile phone over the past few years. On it you’ll hear her play a range of instruments including the piano, her grandmother’s old accordion, the metallophone, synth,…
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5:04 PM
If fear creeps so easily into the fantastical worlds that shield us from real-life horrors, how do these tiny universes serve their original purpose? And why is it that the things we choose not to listen to always find a way through the cracks where they fester and mold? Recorded using an old harpsichord, programmable…