BURNT: Read the Room

BURNT - Vernissage performance by NÂR
Friday, 25. September, 19:00

As part of the exhibition BURNT, we’re honoured to close our Read the Room listening series with a performance by NÂR, whose music is electric, hypnotic, and fire-lit, built around repetitive and incantatory mantras.

NÂR is a Swiss Lebanese multi-instrumentalist and singer based in Beirut. In a constant metamorphosis, she works with various instruments, her voice, and different objects she finds. Abrasive, hypnotic, NÂR’s lives are sonic experiments and improvisations built up from A to Z, often led by short sentences on repeat like mantras. Her music takes its roots in a very large spectrum of sounds, inspiration or genre such as Middle Eastern and North African trance, industrial, electronic, and grime music. Lately playing with a setup essentially composed of clocks, carillons, and other metallic objects, the musician is showing a new face with more radical directions and raw sounds.

Read the Room is a series of deep listening sessions, of live sound pieces, inviting audiences into attentive, collective listening as a practice of care.

Supported by Stadt Zürich and Kanton Zürich.