A seeking of solace
Jul 19, 11:28 AM
I am a migrant, I am an electronic music composer, I am an expat, I am an ex-academic, I am a person who needs to deal with bureaucratic processes to stay in another country than my home country.
For months, I have been awaiting a job seeking visa to be granted. Within the process, more official papers are being asked from me to provide. Sometimes I feel like Sisyphus, rolling a paper boulder up a hill. The process is nerve wracking.
Nevertheless, I am lucky to have my electric guitar with me. I sit on the ground, my fingers walk on the string, vibrate them; and I feel vibrations on my body through guitars body, amplifier amplifies the strings' vibration, turn them into audible sounds. I believe my instruments helps me while I seek some solace.
Recorded by Görkem Özdemir.
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration
For months, I have been awaiting a job seeking visa to be granted. Within the process, more official papers are being asked from me to provide. Sometimes I feel like Sisyphus, rolling a paper boulder up a hill. The process is nerve wracking.
Nevertheless, I am lucky to have my electric guitar with me. I sit on the ground, my fingers walk on the string, vibrate them; and I feel vibrations on my body through guitars body, amplifier amplifies the strings' vibration, turn them into audible sounds. I believe my instruments helps me while I seek some solace.
Recorded by Görkem Özdemir.
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration