WAHDUWAH is an onomatopoetic vibration of a sine wave, oscillating infinitely.

Formed in 2020, WAHDUWAH is sound project designed for the participant to engage in the action of long-listening, to an unconventional orchestra, extracted from sound recordings of the living environment. I’m interested in the composition structures created through social environments and utilize these long-form exposures as an opportunity to understand the habitats that we co-exist within, refine listening practices and develop a heightened awareness of sound. Through deep listening with intent, absorbing the multitude of notations present across audible environments, can we offer an alternative experience and perspective of how landscapes move and our place within it?

Intended to challenge our experiences of time and space — WAHDUWAH offers an array of complex environments, compositions and harmonic sounds.

WAHDUWAH was broadcast on Soho Radio London [2022-2024]

Listen to archive here + Bandcamp

How to listen?

Put on some headphones and find a quiet space to drop into the emerging soundscape, and let the sounds guide your experience.

Explore playing the recorded sounds layered over your present audible environment and observe how these notations interact.

Projects

[Project 1]

#WATERBODIES is an exploration, dedicated to raise awareness and facilitate the deep listening of water.

HOPE IS A MOLECULE OF WATER, EMILY NAM [2023]

Project statement:

Water is an inorganic molecule [Hydrogen + Oxygen = H2O]. Its presence is ubiquitous to life, it has no discrimination. It regulates temperatures of earth, it is the cytoplasmic bed for chemical reactions to occur in our body, it generates food source and vegetation, its great power thrusts upon the shores, it washes away our sins. It is cohesive. We can rely on water to be constant, we can trust that it will behave in three states - solid, liquid, gas. Through its transformations, each state is a medium for unique processes to occur, each shift creates new potential. If a hairline crack exists in a rock, water can seep through and pass to the other side. Overtime, the water will carve out a new path and eventually, there is a waterfall. In the most constrained hearts and minds, water can alleviate this resistance - the gaps, the edges of hope will allow its waters to flow deeply. Can we engage in a relationship with water and what can water describe for us?