Synopsis

This track “Bānzol/Āzmān”, taken from HUUUM’s self-titled debut album, draws on the sounds of the Baluchistan region and explores the ideas of an “inner dialogue between the wind inside the body and the person themselves”, as well as the themes of madness and ritual. Due to its intense narrative, the track was also the first to receive visual treatment from art collective TE-R. When we started this collaboration, we were thinking quite intensively about how to create an environment of exchange among everyone involved. We tried to establish forms of exchange that transcend modes of translation from audio to video. We were looking to include artefacts of our individual and collective surroundings, our present conditions and intentions, our encounters and approaches, and bring them into a virtual setting that allowed us to spawn narrative worlds in a generative fashion. We 3D-scanned objects referring to the HUUUM’s ritualistic nature, and captured everyday objects in their current state. All those virtualised objects became the base material for an iterative sculpting process of collective fragmentation.