WIP Sharing | Matthew Rahaim x Bariya | 14th January 2024

Matthew Rahaim and Bariya (Ambient Electronic Deep Listening)
(A Polyphonic and Polymodal listening of the city)

Polymodal Delhi – By Matthew Rahaim 
Channeling Delhi’s sedimented history as a meeting ground of musical worlds, the modulatory techniques of maqām take us fluidly through a series of rāga-s. We dwell in the dynamic umapped zones between modal structure, finding spaces of poetry among the ruins of grammar.

The Delhi Polyphones – Bariya 
An ambient set dissolving millions of polyphones emerging out of the city creating Delhi’s aural auroras! Electronically reading, playing, synthesizing from the paraphonic and polyphonic stays and hums of the city. The last imprints of the city’s contribution to the spheres of sounds looming, gently surrounding it.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Matthew Rahaim is a composer, improviser, and vocalist, grounded in the Gwalior lineage of Hindustani music. His work includes analog synthesis, voice, raga music, event scores, and electroacoustic compositions for new instruments. Recent compositions have been featured at the Wakpa Triennial, Drone Not Drones, and The Great Beyond festival. His current project, Improvising Relationality, experiments with ways of being both together and apart, in empathic intimacy and vulnerable alterity, exploring the relational play of mutual dependence and mutual freedom.

Bariya (Pratyush Pushkar & Riya Raagini) is an Indian Transdisciplinary Artist duo currently working on a deep polyphonic and fearless listening with more than a decade-long musical and sonic grounding, disorienting (poetic) navigations and stays through everyday sonic reconciliations- uncovering constant queer bioacoustic-poetics that surround us.
Their works have found spaces at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany, Thyssen Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, Audioblast Festival, France, Radhiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow,  Festival Sur Aural, Bolivia and Festival Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria among others. Their larger project ” The Delhi Polyphones” has been funded and supported by 421 Arts Centre, Abu Dhabi and curated by Sara Safwan (Curator- Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi).

Date:, January 14, 2024 (Sunday)
Timing:  6:30 PM
Venue: Lilanoor Centre for Voice and Music

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