Archival Frequencies: Sonic Session with Ayesha Hameed and Tom Hirst
In the third session of the live Archival Frequencies series, artist Ayesha Hameed and musician Tom Hirst perform their new work We are in flood (2024), exploring subaquatic bodies of water as sites of grief, suffering, and kinship. Through these water ecosystems and adjacent worlds, the piece weaves together echoes of voices from past works Black Atlantis: The End of Eating Everything and Brown Atlantis Radio as Hameed and Hirst continue their explorations of the Atlantic and Indian oceans and the imagined Kumari Kandam, a lost Tamil continent that was the cradle of all human civilisation. An Atlantis before Atlantis. This piece includes music from Bi Kidude, Rabindranath Tagore, Pearl Divers from the Arabian Peninsula, and the voices of Rachel Baker, Lizzie Homersham, Bijan Moosavi, Christian Nyampeta, and Theodor Ringborg.
Archival Frequencies is a podcast by Black Archives Sweden that explores the sonic echoes and traces within the archive.
Credits:
Introduction podcast version: Yahia Saleh
Technician live version: Kristian Eliasson
Technician live radio: Jonatan Bergsman
Postproduction producer: Daniel Säfström
Graphic designer: Linda Hallstan
Additional recording: Kristian Eliasson
Concept: Black Archives Sweden
Learn more about Ayesha Hameed here:
https://www.instagram.com/sayeshahameed
Learn more about Tom Hirst here:
https://www.instagram.com/tomhirstmusic
Learn more about Retreat Radio here:
https://www.instagram.com/retreatradio
The episode is done by Black Archives Sweden in collaboration with Retreat Radio with support from the Swedish Arts Council and Region Skåne.
