Breather Loops

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about the cassette

Shoeb Ahmad conceived the Breather project during peak lockdown on the Australian continent. Ruminating on a dry season marred by devastating bushfires led Ahmad to start writing the A Body Full Of Tears album. Plunged into isolation and confronting the trauma of environmental degradation and pandemic realities, Ahmad decided to continue exploring and started to create a space for long-form, meditative compositions.


Ahmad performed these new mediations, the Breather sessions, in the middle of the day and live-streamed them so people could tune in and meditate and reflect along with the music while they had lunch, read a book, or work. In late 2020, she was given a grant that covered lost income from live performance in return for creating a body of work with the Breather concept. This time rather than do something durational, Ahmad played with the idea of using simple 10-second videos from her surroundings creating shorter works that could play as infinite loops.


These loops, when collected together, could be randomized to dovetail in and out of a playlist with a sense of endlessness. It was an exercise in restraint – adhering to an ambient wallpaper aesthetic for continual respite from the uncertainty we currently live within.

  1. 2.7 3:28
  2. 2.3 4:10
  3. 2.2 3:36
  4. 2.9 2:19
  5. 2.1 4:40
  6. 2.6 2:53
  7. 2.5 5:41
  8. 2.8 2:59
  9. 2.4 3:01
  10. 2.10 3:10

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Breather Loops

10,00

in stock

  1. 2.7 3:28
  2. 2.3 4:10
  3. 2.2 3:36
  4. 2.9 2:19
  5. 2.1 4:40
  6. 2.6 2:53
  7. 2.5 5:41
  8. 2.8 2:59
  9. 2.4 3:01
  10. 2.10 3:10

Embed

Copy and paste this code to your site to embed.

about the cassette

Shoeb Ahmad conceived the Breather project during peak lockdown on the Australian continent. Ruminating on a dry season marred by devastating bushfires led Ahmad to start writing the A Body Full Of Tears album. Plunged into isolation and confronting the trauma of environmental degradation and pandemic realities, Ahmad decided to continue exploring and started to create a space for long-form, meditative compositions.


Ahmad performed these new mediations, the Breather sessions, in the middle of the day and live-streamed them so people could tune in and meditate and reflect along with the music while they had lunch, read a book, or work. In late 2020, she was given a grant that covered lost income from live performance in return for creating a body of work with the Breather concept. This time rather than do something durational, Ahmad played with the idea of using simple 10-second videos from her surroundings creating shorter works that could play as infinite loops.


These loops, when collected together, could be randomized to dovetail in and out of a playlist with a sense of endlessness. It was an exercise in restraint – adhering to an ambient wallpaper aesthetic for continual respite from the uncertainty we currently live within.

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