Hemant Sreekumar
Slow Burn Riyaas
Duration - 06:49 minutes
The insects are gone. The ice caps are melting and the oceans are hot.
LISTEN LOUD
The virtual window of "How to Live Together?" has been used as an opportunity to explore a nuanced concept of "Slow Burn." Staged as a morning riyaas, the performance features the emaciated dragging of two microphones across a tiled surface, creating a noisy texture that slowly reverberates and folds unto itself. This seemingly trivial act signifies parallel unique signals or ideologies that coalesce into an intense nothingness.
A reminder that coexistence is akin to slow burn, a process that requires patience, dedication, and a willingness to listen to and learn from others.
Hemant Sk works with notions of psycho-acoustics to compose mind altering sonic content. His works are characterised by atonal frequencies where he creates custom software that operate at the threshold of human perception, exploring the loss of meaning in a world run by algorithms and AI Black boxes.