still sleeping

from radioworks_vol​.​01 by meiraasher

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In memory of Mohammed Abu Khdeir who was murdered by Jewish Israeli ultra nationalists on July 2, 2014. He was 16 years old.

Read more on Earlid - listening vault "hubris ~ humility" exhibit curated by Joan Schuman: www.earlid.org/posts/meira-asher-still-sleeping/

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Still Sleeping [full text]

Soundscape: a burning boy in a forest
Precisely, the Jerusalem forest
July 2014
The Sound between his mother and me
The Sound where we mothers sink [sync]

July 2016
Sound fear
My sound fear
my children are sound asleep
(sea drained)
I delve into the sound of the Sound:

Soundproof forest amongst right wing neighbourhoods
Car stops by, a man with a big head talking ‘is everything okay?’
I stand where the boy was set on fire
The man must know where I stand
I stand in the sound fear of all mothers
I say ‘who are you?’
Man says ‘We’re watching over you, are you okay?’
Yes! Yes!
See the small stones on the ground?
Here they set the boy on fire
Her boy my boy your boy our boy
Who the hell sets a young boy on fire?!
They
Scum

Soundproof chamber amongst soaring mountains
My children are sound asleep
under the stars
(sea drained)
I sit still by the stairs to the chamber
my head surrenders to visions of horror:
abduction. Someone’s descending the mountain behind, coming
here, lifting my daughter, running away
She cries Ima Ima Ima…
My eyelids start drooping I fall asleep not knowing
what will my eyes encounter tomorrow
Will they all be here?
What if one will be missing, taken to the mountains to a temporary base camp, tortured, set on fire, alive?

Soundproof skull chamber of grey matter
Blasting, shrinking, push it push it push it all
to the back of my head
Good morning sun
Good morning my children
You’re here
Still Sleeping
Still alive.

credits

from radioworks_vol​.​01, released September 2, 2022
Contains field and body recordings, electronics and voice.

Special microphones designed by Noam
 Gavrieli for body recording. Fragment from "grouse
mountain, silent forest"-field recording by Frank Schulte for
 Radio Aporee.

Commissioned by Eyebeam NY, for the site specific sound-art
exhibition 'Acoustic Infrastructures' curated by Jamie Allen.
*Grand Prix Nova 2017 shortlisted*

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