buulbuul Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee Radio residency

Having formed a duo called 'buulbuul' (from Kazakh 'nightingale'), my collaborator and friend Kas and I have joined a residency at Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee Radio for slightly more than 1 month to experiment with sound & poetry under the concept of 'gül and bulbul' (from Kazakh 'flower and nightingale').

For this residency, guided by Radna Rumping, Arif Kornweitz and Andrea González, we have produced 3 interconnected songs in one piece. It is a poetry bundle, consisting of three poems in two languages, English and Kazakh. Birds, flowers, cruising, heartbreaks, flutes, drums, and love gardens with peris; a baq (garden) is an imaginary paradise of longing. Connecting and (re)interpreting traditional and modern imagery, the bundle explores what shape a modern queer understanding of Central Asian poetry and sound can take.

You can read more about the piece here.