intimaa' إنتماء by Bana Haffar

Intimaa’
from a deep place of un-belonging 
searching and searching

Recorded and mixed by Bana Haffar in Asheville, North Carolina between June 6th and July 18th, 2022
 
Intimaa’ (belonging in Arabic) is a documentation of pieces composed for Touch’s 40th anniversary celebrations in Los Angeles and Santa Cruz in the Spring of 2022. 

Pulling from ongoing research in weaving and textiles, the pieces are informed by the interchangeability of the weaver's process with the sequencing of sound – from sourcing and preparing materials to be woven (recording, editing, and formatting samples), preparing the loom (programming the sequencer), and finally, weaving the cloth (playing back, manipulating, and recording the sequence). 

Thank you to Touch for their ongoing mentorship and friendship. 

Survival is change

Bana Haffar is an electronic music composer working with the materiality of sound through ongoing independent research-creation in music sequencing and weaving technologies.

In 2014 she, together with Eric Cheslak, founded Modular on the Spot in Los Angeles and in 2021 she co-founded the Beirut Synthesizer Center in Lebanon.