ABDELLAH M.HASSAK

Abdellah M. Hassak is a sound artist, new media, music producer, manager, and engineer in new technologies. His research explores processes of participative sonic mapping at the urban level, integrating sound, daily technologies, and radio as tools to foster agency in inhabitants' narrations of their environment. Involved in Qanat and Digital Arabia Network since 2017, Abdellah has developed several projects, such as ‘A Piece of Water’ a performance and sound installation exploring fluid polyrhythms as a way to poetically encapsulate water state transformation; and Visible: Invisible, which explores science-fiction in the Islamic and Arab imaginary. The performance is part of broader research and creative project in which Koranic recitations, Arab mythologies, and cultural heritage encounter the digital and mingle with notions drawn from hard sciences, and other workshops, ‘Quatra Men Sma’ and ‘Radio Dar Bellarj’ which initiated participants to sound mappings of water, communal spaces and collective memory in Marrakech as well as to collective radio making. Besides these, Abdellah has been collaborating with many other institutions and cultural spaces in Morocco and abroad. He develops a musical syncretic Afrofuturism music with field recordings practice as a Producer/DJ (Guedra Guedra) and he launched the Radio and Archive sound platform Mahattat Radio. Abdellah is also part of DIGI MENA mapping research and platform that is curated by Egyptian curator Elham Khattab under the umbrella of Out Of The Circle Organization. DIGI MENA mapping seeks to connect and present new media/digital artists from the Middle East and North Africa as well as offering opportunities for them to contribute and collaborate within the current international new media/digital art scene.