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halas1 · 6 years ago

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Roughly 3 months ago I asked the Jerusalem based artist, singer, instrumentalist, and electronics wiz-kid, Tomer Damsky to join me as yet another guest in Experimental Israel. Through various projects in the past two years, I have come across Damsky in the role of creator, singer and performer, practicing all of the above with a shameless lack of affiliation to genre and style. This, I must admit, has already but become a trademark of the younger generation in the local scene, and specifically something I attributed to the Jerusalem based scene (although Damsky herself didn’t quite agree as to a clear divide between the different scenes in Israel). Regardless, she paraded a renegade talent and a voice of her own that, try as I may, I simply could not pin down stylistically, making her a prime candidate for that which I attempt to explore through this research.

About a week before our scheduled broadcast, Damsky, who is more often than not an avid collaborator, asked me whether she could invite a guest of her own on the program, in which they will perform together. The guest in question is Eyal bitton, a housemate of Damsky’s and a member of a non-official artists collective based around their shared Jerusalem flat in the Cats Square. Together Damsky and Bitton form the electronics duo – Kdoshey Zaglambia (referring, more in cynical jest, to the 100,000 Jewish inhabitants of the Zagłębie Dąbrowskie in Poland who were murdered during the 2nd world war). I obviously relish these opportunities, as they open up the research at hand to new voices and ideas, and gladly welcomed this new arrangement.

Awaiting me in the studio was the duo coupled with two huge metal plates, one of which was fitted with a metal string as well. The two would later rattle, hit and mainly bow the same metal plates, which were both amplified with a pickup and contact microphone, and whose audio signal was sent into an array of effects that were spread across the studio floor. The two beautiful sets presented by Kdoshey Zaglambia in the studio corresponded with noise and drone based music. However, the outcome sounded much richer and much less prone towards claiming the usual stomping ground of these aforementioned styles. Rather, it seemed to pass through musical signposts in an improvisatory fashion, collecting what was needed, and carrying off towards a new destination until the pieces were finally concluded.

However, the real point of interest was during our interview: Damsky and Bitton, although humouring me at first, seemed quite reluctant to join my usual analytical tendencies regarding experimental practices. We managed to get through some of the duo’s biography as an ensemble and individuals. We continued to inquire deeper into a specific project they had conceived, involving a task score set to a group of performers in a site-specific building in Jerusalem. As interesting as this was, we weren’t really able to extract something more illuminating from the details of this topic, and soon moved on towards another, namely the Tel-Aviv/Jerusalem divide. Although here too, Damsky, at first, was willing to indulge my lead, she soon claimed to have no interest in this type of discourse whatsoever, and it was only a matter of seconds before she allowed herself, with what seemed like complete and utter mutual consent, to hijack the interview towards an open ended improvisation, which Bitton and myself shortly followed.

Suddenly, we were in a fantastical radiophonic space fuelled by the backdrop of cassettes played through a varying speed tape recorder, and our own voices. We continued to use our cell phones that were playing our live feed from Halas, and played it back into the studio microphones, creating a unique type of feedback. Not knowing how serious we were about the whole thing gave the entire act, for me at least, a feeling of great excitement. And indeed, in conclusion of our first such session, Damsky proclaimed: “This is experimentalism”! I call this our first such session, as shortly after this proclamation, we found ourselves in a mock interview/improvisation session that took us pretty much to the end of our program.

My immediate intake from this was a realisation of comedic improv as a complete act of experimentation. Indeed, I doubt whether there was more than a momentary comical success shared by us in the studio, yet the playing field felt very familiar even if using very different tools. To me this also seemed as a highly productive training ground for the creation of specific radiophonic pieces – we were forced by volition of the moment, and our mutual choice to participate, to immediately take on the medium and try as much as possible to utilise it to our best advantage. But more than anything, I have to claim a connection to a facet I have already noticed before during such impromptu dealings in our studio, namely calling to mind the program I made with artist, Uri Katzenstein. In that session, as well as this, it seemed that the rapport and chemistry between the performing individuals was the essential factor enabling this state of “play”. “Play”, in this instance, representing a physical/mental space where a mutual agreement on supposed “rules” is instated (mainly in order to be broken), coupled with an amiability or generosity allowing each participant to truly shape the narrative.

So we had a blast in the studio, creating perhaps not the most meaningful content, yet something that could still illuminate, if only through practice, that which I try to explore. Not to mention the two riveting sets presented by the duo, which of themselves could be seen as material shedding ample light on the topic. However, going through the whole series of events leading up to the program, there would seem to have been a very important omission that I would now like to dwell on: Just before the show started, I went through my usual check of the Halas server by broadcasting a short teaser to the soon to be aired show. As we have been encountering some technical difficulties lately, I decided to take extra caution and even played the Halas page on my cellular device in order to make sure we were broadcasting properly. I decided to use this handicap and shape it into something a tad more artistic, and so allowed the microphone in the studio to pick up the broadcast from my phone, and thus created the aforementioned feedback loop used during our actual session. The duo was already set in place, open microphones and headsets on, and as soon as they saw me fooling around in this manner, took their cue to join in. Before we knew it we were in a three-way improv including voices, cell phones, tape cassette, and various objects at hand. As I stopped the broadcast, I said: “shame I didn’t press record, that was pretty cool”. I don’t remember whether we’d even planned something concrete, but it was obvious to us all in the studio that we were going to attempt something similar during the broadcast, and as you heard, attempt we did. In retrospect, it raised the question of whether that chance moment was not the basis of our later attempt during the broadcast? Were we trying to recapture something, or rather reach an optimal goal only hinted upon by that rough yet exciting moment of play? Did we succeed, or is this perhaps not even a valid goal to set for such experimentation? Regardless, I couldn’t help but agree even more with Damsky’s claim that this indeed was true experimentation.

#Experimental Israel #Eyal Bitton #Jerusalem #Kdoshey Zaglambia #Noise #Ophir Ilzetzki #Tomer Damsky #קדושי זגלמביה #ישראל הנסיונית #אייל ביטון #תומר דמסקי #אופיר אילזצקי

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tasksweekly · 8 years ago

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[TASK 049: MOROCCO]

Shout out to anon for inspiring this task! There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 160+ Moroccan faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK - examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite Indonesian faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by a Indonesian artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on Indonesian culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

Note: If you’re using this masterlist for casting purposes please do further research before casting any of the following because some pages only listed their nationalities!

Ladies:

Laila Ghofran (56) - singer.

Pnina Tornai (54) Moroccan / father was an Israeli diplomat from Egypt - fashion designer.

Rosalinda Serfaty (52) Venezuelan and of Moroccan-Jewish descent - actress.

Natacha Amal (48) Moroccan / Russian - actress.

Zehava Ben (48) Moroccan Jewish - singer.

Aure Atika (46) Moroccan Sephardi Jewish / Unknown - actress, writer, and director.

Laila Rouass (46) Indian / Moroccan - actress.

Bouchra Jarrar (46) - fashion designer.

Yosefa Dahari (46) Yemeni / Moroccan - singer.

Samia Akario (45) - actress.

Nadia Farès (43) - actress.

Lubna Azabal (43) Moroccan / Spanish - actress.

Sanaa Hamri (42) - director and television producer.

Nora Skalli (42) - actress.

Emmanuelle Chriqui (41) Moroccan Jewish - actress.

Elisa Tovati (41) Russo-Moroccan Jewish origins - singer, actress and television personality.

Avital Abergel (40) Israeli and of Moroccan-Jewish descent - actress.

Touriya Haoud (39) Moroccan, Macedonian - actress, model, and singer.

Miri Bohadana (39) Moroccan Jewish - actress, model and presenter.

Maya Bouskilla (39) Moroccan-Jewish - singer.

Layla El (39) Moroccan, Spanish - WWE Diva, valet, and former professional dancer.

Maysaa Maghrebi (38) Emirati and of Moroccan descent - actress.

Rajaa Kasabni (38) - singer.

Shiri Appleby (38) Ashkenazi Jewish, Moroccan Sephardi Jewish.

Hindi Zahra (38) - singer.

Reymond Amsalem (38) Israeli and of Moroccan descent - actress.

Asma Lamnawar (38) - singer.

Senna Guemmour (37) Moroccan and Algerian - singer.

Rakefet Abergel (37) Moroccan-Jewish descent - actress and comedian.

Shatha Hassoun (37) Iraqi / Moroccan - singer.

Larusso (37) Moroccan Jewish / Tunisian Jewish - singer.

Moran Atias (36) Moroccan Jewish - actress and model.

Dounia Boutazout (36) - actress.

Shiri Maimon (36) Sephardi Jewish, Tunisian, Greek, Moroccan - singer.

Najoua Belyzel (35) Moroccan-Egyptian - singer.

Nadja Benaissa (35) Moroccan / Serbian and German - recording artist, television personality, and occasional actress.

Hoda Saad (35) - singer.

Zineb Oukach (34/35) - actress and model.

Morjana Alaoui (34) Moroccan-French - actress.

Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui (33) Moroccan Berber - pop singer and music producer.

Amelle Berrabah (33) Moroccan - singer.

Malika Ayane (33) Moroccan / Italian - singer.

Wiam Dahmani (33) - presenter and actress.

Sofia Essaïdi (32) Moroccan / French - singer.

Karima Adebibe (32) Moroccan Berber, Irish, Greek Cypriot - actress and model.

Hind Laroussi (32) Dutch / Moroccan -singer.

Mehdi Dehbi (31) Tunisian, Berber - actor.

Mor Karbasi (31) heritage is mixed Moroccan and Iranian - singer.

Zineb Obeid (31) - actress and moodel.

Amel Bent (31) Moroccan / Algerian - singer.

Loubna Abidar (31) - actress.

Maryam Hassouni (31) - actress.

Jannat Mahid (31) - singer.

Inbar Lavi (30) Polish Jewish / Moroccan Jewish - actress.

Soukaina Boukries (29) - singer and actress.

Kathleen Reiter (28) mother is of Moroccan-Jewish descent - singer.

Sofia Pernas (27) Moroccan-American - actress.

Sara Chafak (26) Amazigh Moroccan / Finnish - beauty queen.

Maroua Kharbouch (26) Moroccan - model and beauty queen.

Val Mercado (25) Moroccan - model and YouTuber.

Sarah Lahbati (23) Moroccan / Filipino - actress.

Shlomit Malka (23) Moroccan Jewish / Ukrainian Jewish - model.

Bibi Bourelly (22) Afro-Haitian, African-American, Moroccan - singer.

Mor Maman (22) Israeli and of Moroccan descent - beauty queen.

Imaan Hammam (20) Egyptian / Moroccan - model.

Rowan Blanchard (15) Armenian, Lebanese, Moroccan, Syrian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English, German, Portuguese - actress.

Dounia Tazi (?) - model, singer, and songwriter.

Iman ElBani (?) - actress.

Rajae Imran (?) - actress and ex- journalist.

Leila Shenna (?) - actress.

Leila Hadioui (?) - model.

Lamiaa Alaoui (?) - model.

Fadoua Lahlou (?) - model.

Loubna El Bekri (?) - model.

Widyan Larouz (?) - model.

Amina Allam (?) - model.

Hind Benyahia (?) - model and television personality

Ihssane Atif (?) - model, writer, and television celebrity.

Ibtissam Ittouchane (?) - model.

Fati Jamali (?) - beauty queen.

Houda Echouafni (?) Moroccan, Egyptian - actress.

Kim Edri (?) Moroccan-Jewish - beauty queen.

Kineret Sarah Cohen (born 1970) Jew of Moroccan and Iraqi heritage - singer.

Danielle Ebguy (born in 1950) - singer.

Brigitte Zarie (?) - singer.

Trans:

Yasmine Petty (?) Moroccan / Italian - model.

Men:

Philippe Clair (86) French and of Moroccan descent - actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and popular humorist.

Gérard Darmon (69) - actor and singer.

Avi Toledano (69) - singer.

Isaac Bitton (69) Moroccan Jewish - musician.

Richard Anconina (64) Moroccan Jewish - actor.

Paul Marciano (64/65) - fashion designer.

Armand Amar (63/64) - composer.

Mehdi El Glaoui (61) French and of Moroccan descent - actor.

Alber Elbaz (55/56) Moroccan-Israeli - fashion designer.

Hassan El Fad (54) - actor.

Michel Qissi (54) Moroccan-Belgian - actor.

Hassan Hakmoun (53) - musician.

Jake Weber (53) Danish, English/ Moroccan Jewish, English - actor.

Roschdy Zem (51) French and of Moroccan descent - actor and filmmaker.

Rachid El Ouali (52) - actor, producer, director and TV host.

David Guetta (49) Moroccan Sephardi Jewish / Belgian - DJ.

Driss Roukhe (48) - actor.

Danny Nucci (48) French Moroccan / Italian - actor.

Najib Amhali (46) - stand-up comedian and actor.

Omer Avital (46) Moroccan, Yemeni - jazz bassist, composer and bandleader.

Mohammed Chaara (36) Moroccan-Dutch - actor.

Zenza Raggi (46) Moroccan-German - actor.

Anouar Hajoui (46) - rapper.

Vincent Elbaz (46) Moroccan Jewish - actor.

Eyal Golan (46) Yemenite and Moroccan Jewish origins - singer.

Gad Elmaleh (46) Moroccan Sephardi Jewish - stand-up comedian and actor.

Adam Zindani (45) - guitarist.

Chico Slimani (46) - singer.

Leila K (45) - singer and rapper.

Nadir Khayat (45) Moroccan-Swedish - singer.

Samuel Benchetrit (43) French and of Moroccan descent - actor.

Saïd Taghmaoui (43) Moroccan of Berber (Shilha) descent - actor and screenwriter.

Jamel Debbouze (42) - actor, comedian, producer, director, and screenwriter.

Nabil Elouahabi (42) British Moroccan - actor.

Mimoun Oaïssa (42) Moroccan-Dutch - actor and screenwriter.

Elam Jay (42) Swiss-Moroccan - songwriter, vocalist, dancer, performer, composer, and music arranger.

Raphaël Haroche (41) Moroccan Jewish and Russian / Argentinian - singer and actor.

Mohammed Azaay (40) Moroccan-Dutch - actor.

Mimoun Ouled Radi (40) - actor.

Ahmed Soultan (39) - singer.

Isam Bachiri (39) Berber - vocalist, rapper and songwriter.

Nawell Azzouz (39) - singer.

Frank Mir (38) Moroccan, Russian, Cuban - mixed martial artist.

Jérémie Elkaïm (38) Moroccan Jewish - actor.

Adil Takhssait (38) - solo act.

Tarik Azzougarh (38) - rapper.

Omar Berdouni (37) - actor.

Mourad Zaoui (37) - actor.

Moufid Aziz (36/37) Brazilian and of Moroccan - model.

Assaad Bouab (36) - actor.

Harel Moyal (36) Moroccan-Jewish - singer.

Fu'ad Aït Aattou (36) Moroccan, French - actor and model.

Salah Edin (36) - rapper and actor.

La Fouine (35) - rapper, singer, and songwriter.

DJ A-Trak (35) Russian Jewish, Moroccan Jewish - DJ.

Ahmed Chawki (35) - recording artist.

Ali B (35) - rapper.

Moshe Peretz (34) Moroccan / Iraqi - singer.

Amir Haddad (33) Tunisian Jewish and Moroccan-Spanish Jewish ancestry - singer.

Achmed Akkabi (33) Moroccan-Dutch - actor.

Saad Lamjarred (32) - singer and actor.

Farid Bang (31) - rapper.

Fadil El Ghoul (31) of Moroccan origin - DJ.

Marc Bendavid (30/31) Belgian / Moroccan Jewish - actor.

Benjamin Siksou (30) French and of Moroccan descent - singer-songwriter and actor..

Mamoun Elyounoussi (29) Dutch and of Moroccan descent - actor.

Khleo Thomas (28) African-American / Moroccan Jewish - actor, rapper, singer, and entertainer.

Yanis Sahraoui (28) Moroccan-Algerian - singer.

Youssef Ben Hayoun Sadafi (26) - actor, model and fighter.

Dounia Batma (26) - singer.

Nasser Saleh (24) Spanish and of Moroccan descent - actor.

Anis Basim Moujahid (24) of Moroccan origin - pop singer.

Adam Aminé Daniel (23) - rapper.

Teo Halm (18) Ashkenazi Jewish / Sephardi Jewish (from Morocco and France) - actor.

Younes Kahlaoui (?) Moroccan / German - model.

French Montana (?) Moroccan, some Somali -hip hop artist.

Ahmed Salah Abdelfatah (?) - actor.

Ahmed El Maanouni (?) - screenwriter, film director, cinematographer, actor and producer.

Sol Heras (born in 1987) English and of Moroccan and Spanish descent - actor.

Henri Belolo (born 1936) Moroccan Jewish - music producer.

Ohad Benchetrit (?) Moroccan-Jewish - musician.

Avraham Eilam-Amzallag (born in 1941) Israeli and of Moroccan descent - musician and composer.

Yigal Azrouël (?) French-Moroccan - fashion designer.

#rph #underused fcs #Moroccan fc #Moroccan fcs #fc masterlist #task: 049 #task: Morocco

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