✹ ✢ R U P A // B E N T U K \\|✹|// R A N G K A
!! D E R H A K A !!
✦ sounds, words and voices ✦
Shivangi Mariam Raj
Randa Jarrar
Hanna Hazzan
bani haykal
Between debris and absence ✹ between defiance and silence ✹ something mutates — chameleonic, restless, teeth-bared forms of disobedience; sounds and voices — prayers / curses / shouts / fractures — all trying to puncture → tear → split → the veins of tyranny.
What does an uprising sound like when the world is burning through its borders?
Rupa Bentuk Rangka Derhaka (“the form of disobedience”) rises out of textures ✢ ruptures ✢ atmospheres crawling through the fog of struggle → a place where violences overlap, where realities smear into each other, where horrors collapse across geographies that regimes pretend are separate.
At the center → bani haykal’s bicycle-frame instruments: metal bent into refusal.
90% of the percussive + string body of this release hammered out of frames once meant for motion → now repurposed toward resistance.
A line back to Gaza → where bicycle frames become sewing machines → washing machines → survival engines rebuilt under siege ✹ tools carved from scarcity.
✹✹ TRANSNATIONAL TESTIMONY ✹✹
Field recordings by Hanna Hazzan → gathered across Northern Palestine → a ground trembling with longing, grit thick with the demand for liberation → grain refusing erasure → sound as counter-memory.
Layered into this → the words of Shivangi Mariam Raj from “Tracing the Coordinates of Absence” → colonial violence in India → demolished homes → stolen land → histories that haunt → ghosts that echo Palestine’s struggle across another map entirely.
Then → Randa Jarrar’s voice: correspondence from Gaza, diaspora vibration, infrastructure collapse, everyday wreckage → fragments carried through the fault lines of occupation.
She leads the listener into the hollowed-out rooms war leaves behind → where silence often hits harder than the blast ✢ and rupture becomes its own ghost.
Together → these elements carve an evolving sonic cartography — a map that refuses stillness, refuses obedience, refuses the polite violences of borders.
A collective attempt to hear resistance as it forms → deforms → reforms → across multiple, intersecting terrains of oppression.
excerpted from:
"Tracing the Coordinates of Absence" — Shivangi Mariam Raj
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