Automobile Sound Performance at Ashkal Alwan

As part of the Home Works 6 platform, Ashkal Alwan will be hosting a sound performance called “Automobile” by Joe Namy. Taking place right outside the locales of Ashkal Alwan, this performance will pay homage to the ever-present instrument that defines Beirut’s sonic landscape yet defies definition: the synthesizer.

This outdoor performance will explore the most popular way Beirut consumes the synthesizer’s amplified grittiness: through cars. Using processed field recordings, “Automobile” mines the lush soundtracks that score “corniche kazduras” after dark – machine music for waves and humans.