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Offerings | ق​ر​ب​ا​ن

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"Offerings" Music Video is now live: youtu.be/weorZViuPHA

Offerings is the first piano improvisation from my upcoming project "Into the Ether and Out of Our Anguish," a large-scale collaborative work comprising solo piano improvisations, string quartet, field recordings and testimonials collected by my colleagues Shareef Sarhan and Rana Batrawi, who both live and work in Gaza, from survivors of the latest massacre and also focusing on the nature and landscape of the Gaza valley. I was recently awarded the 2021 Palestinian Young Artist of the Year Award for "Into the Ether and Out of Our Anguish" by the AM Qattan Foundation in conjunction with the Mosaic Rooms in London. The theme for this year's award is "Divinations: The Art of Remembering The Future,” curated by novelist and writer Adania Shibli. It focuses on ways artists, academics, curators, historians and critics can work towards imagining a liberated Palestine, and is largely focused on process rather than outcome.

The idea is to send these recordings back to folks in Gaza so they can set up a soundscape in the valley as a form of healing. When working on this set of piano improvisations and eventually transcribing them, I thought of them not only as offerings for the Gaza Valley and the wildlife that has gone extinct due to the brutality of the Israeli occupation, but also as offerings for the visitors of anxiety and depression which come into your life during times of healing. A non-linear and repetitive process, healing requires a spiritual sacrifice and cleansing.

I will also be featuring different non-Palestinian artists throughout the project as the process unfolds, in making transnational connections between intercontinental struggles.

Inspired by the five elements: air, water, earth, fire and ether, the sonic space in a future where Palestine exists outside of the boundaries and politics of nation statehood and of earthly, material alliances. Ether is the space where we come together amidst the constantly changing environmental forces to adapt and change with them, a place where residents value the natural world, rather than being neglectful and incredibly wasteful of its natural resources.

The research questions are rooted in the shaping and defining of the individual and collective soundscape, through the gathering of field recordings from the natural environment, which is where the music comes into play in providing a sonic exploration of time and place. How can we claim ownership of and shape our sonic environment in a way that brings us towards a future of being and togetherness? How can we use performance to capture an imagined future where Palestine is free, fluid and formless, existing in the ether of our dreams and consciousness, beyond earth, water, air and borders? How does each artist and collective member of the city and rural landscape envision sound, and how do they hear their environments?

To read more about the project visit: yaya20.art

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released August 6, 2021
Piano Improvisation by Donia Jarrar
Mastered by Ryan Gregory Tallman
Recorded at Tropico Union Studios, Los Angeles
Recording Engineering by Alberto Lopez

Album art by Randa Jarrar, Donia Jarrar and Seif Hamid
Arabic calligraphy and design by Seif Hamid
Photography by Randa Jarrar

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PHONODELICA is the experimental sound project from Palestinian-Egyptian-American composer, producer and performer Donia Jarrar.

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