Mundo Urbano

Raed Yassin – He graduated from the Theatre Department of the Institute of Fine Arts in Beirut in 2003. In 2015, he was awarded a research fellowship at the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne. An artist and musician, Yassin’s work often originates from an examination of his personal narratives and their position within a collective history, through the lens of consumer culture and mass production. One of the organisers of Irtijal Festival – Beirut’s experimental contemporary music festival – Yassin has released several music albums and founded the production company Annihaya in 2009. With Eternal Ghost , Raed Yassin extends his ongoing excavation of memory and identity into the sonic realm. Issued by Fourth Sounds as a double A-side 12” to accompany his debut London exhibition, the record comprises two fifteen-minute slabs of modular minimalism, where loops, distortion and vocal frequencies accumulate into a dense, high-voltage architecture of sound. Yassin’s practice has consist...