{"id":26085,"date":"2023-04-22T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T08:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/cd-album-akashic-diaries-biba-sheikh-paradise-now-transonic-label\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T14:57:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T12:57:03","slug":"cd-album-akashic-diaries-biba-sheikh-paradise-now-transonic-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/en\/cd-album-akashic-diaries-biba-sheikh-paradise-now-transonic-label\/","title":{"rendered":"Album | Akashic Diaries &#8211; Biba Sheikh (Lb\/USA) + Paradise Now (Fr\/Be)  | Transonic label (Be)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Biba-Sheikh-Paradise-Now-Akashic-Diaires-Album-Cover-Image-Hadith-El-Layl-MASTER.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Biba-Sheikh-Paradise-Now-Akashic-Diaires-Album-Cover-Image-Hadith-El-Layl-MASTER&#8221; url=&#8221;https:\/\/transonic-records.bandcamp.com\/album\/akashic-diaries&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; module_class=&#8221;img80&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; box_shadow_style=&#8221;preset1&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_code admin_label=&#8221;CodeBandcamp&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=684172183\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=63b2cc\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/transonic-records.bandcamp.com\/album\/akashic-diaries\">Akashic Diaries by Paradise Now + Biba Sheikh<\/a><\/iframe>[\/et_pb_code][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Present CD Album&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>\u200bBased on texts taken from the book <a href=\"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/en\/livre-akashic-diaries-detroit-degree-zero-and-other-crisis-writings-biba-sheikh-europia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cAkashic Diaries \u2013 Detroit Degree Zero and Other Crisis Writings\u201d<\/a> (published by Europia Productions at the end of April 2023, in e-book and paper format) commissioned to Biba Sheikh at the start of the Covid 19 lockdown in April 2020 (in the framework of the \u201cNo Lockdown Art\u201d initiative initiated by Transcultures \u2013 Belgium and the European Pepinieres of Creation), Paradise Now (here in close collaboration with the sound architect Didi\u00e9 Nietzsche) asked the author\/performer to send him texts read at her home near Detroit, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>From these raw recordings, these sonopoetic and cinematic pieces have been developed, letting the text&#8217;s meaning and musicality unfold. Paradise Now and Didi\u00e9 Nietzsche sended sounds to each other by the Internet to gradually build this album of sonopoetic correspondence before being able to work a few days in face-to-face residency at the Transonic Lab\/Transcultures (Belgium) in 2022 and early 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAkashic Diaries\u201d, which is part of a hybrid publication project, is as much an invitation to reading as to engaged listening, and also its autonomy.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This\u00a0 sonopoetic album is dedicated to the memory of Ira Cohen (1935-2011) \u2013 a true Akashic poet (from the Sanskrit \u2018Akasha\u2019, the substance of space, ether and life that he often used, especially in his collection \u201c Poems from the Akashic Record\u201d published in 2001) and mythographer &#8211; whom the two artists knew well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Biba_Sheikh-Akashic_Diaries_Detroit_Degree_Zero_and_other_crisis_writings-Book_Cover2X-Philippe_Franck-Europia_Productions-Pepinieres_Europeenes_de_Creation-Transcultures-2023.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Biba_Sheikh-Akashic_Diaries_Detroit_Degree_Zero_and_other_crisis_writings-Book_Cover2X-Philippe_Franck-Europia_Productions-Pepinieres_Europeenes_de_Creation-Transcultures-2023&#8243; url=&#8221;http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/livre-akashic-diaries-detroit-degree-zero-and-other-crisis-writings-biba-sheikh-europia\/&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; module_class=&#8221;img80&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; box_shadow_style=&#8221;preset1&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Biba_Sheikh-Akashic_Diaries_Detroit_Degree_Zero_and_other_crisis_writings-Book_Presentation-Philippe_Franck-Europia_Productions-Pepinieres_Europeenes_de_Creation-Transcultures-2023.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Biba_Sheikh-Akashic_Diaries_Detroit_Degree_Zero_and_other_crisis_writings-Book_Presentation-Philippe_Franck-Europia_Productions-Pepinieres_Europeenes_de_Creation-Transcultures-2023&#8243; url=&#8221;http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/livre-akashic-diaries-detroit-degree-zero-and-other-crisis-writings-biba-sheikh-europia\/&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; module_class=&#8221;img80&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; box_shadow_style=&#8221;preset1&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Bibah Sheikh Bio 2023&#8243; module_class=&#8221;post-txt artistTextBloc&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; global_module=&#8221;25765&#8243; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h6><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img30 alignright wp-image-25763 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Habibah_Biba_Sheikh-Portrait-drawing-Square-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Habibah_Biba_Sheikh-Portrait-drawing-Square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Habibah_Biba_Sheikh-Portrait-drawing-Square-980x980.jpg 980w, http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Habibah_Biba_Sheikh-Portrait-drawing-Square-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/>Bibah Sheikh (Lb\/USA)<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Habibah Sheikh began studying mime with Marcel Marceau in Paris\u00a0 and later with members of the Polish Laboratory Theater of Jerzy Grotowski. She developed vocal work in relation to voice anthropologist,\u00a0 Jorge Lopez, who researched singing methods from indigenous tribes of south america. She has a nomadic existence and has gathered inspiration for her storytelling &amp; performance art from a number of different cultures: USA, Paris, Sevilla (with the Gypsy\/Roma population), Berlin, Amsterdam, Beirut, and Greece. Habibah lovingly says that Greece is her place of catharsis. There she set up a platform with 13 artists from the Mediterranean, who make visual works based on her stories and theater pieces, which she began writing during her journey with vulnerable populations with the \u201cabandoned children\u201d of Lebanon. After the war left these young people alone, Habibah felt a strong responsibility in order to help them find their voices through storytelling platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The project titled, \u201cMitli Mitlak (Like You, Like Me)\u201d is a visual and literary exhibition, and theatre production where art- works are based on the theater scripts of \u2018Right To Live, as well as \u201cMitli Mitlak\u201d. This ongoing interdisciplinary\u00a0 project is produced by Habibah\u2019s global arts company, Mediterranean Fire Studio, in collaboration with the Third Avenue Playhouse, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. January-March 2019 and taking place at N\u2019Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit 2018. Central Michigan University Art Gallery, 2019, Miller Art Museum, Wisconsin, 2019, Peeler Art Center, Depauw Indiana, 2020. Sponsors include the National Endowment for the Arts, The State of Wisconsin, and other business sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>She has a series of writings related to the Civil War of Lebanon, Syrian Refugee plights, Andalusian Gypsies, and the Greek Crisis.<br \/>Her work is featured in the film, \u2018Citizen Xenos\u2019, by Lucas Paleocrassas, which follows life in refugee camps, where refugees, engaged in theater and voice workshops, express what they had endured. She is devoted to vocal interpretation, acting, and poetic text. The physical and vocal interpretations are further accentuated by years of personal Flamenco study.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the theater production, \u2018I Am the Small Seed\u2019 was developed in an Art Residency at the Born Global Foundation. Musical segments are in collaboration with sound artist Paradise Now (Fr\/Be). It provides Habibah Sheikh the possibility to devise a unique method of storytelling and theater, where a game-like structure contains healing acts, and can be performed by actors and non actors alike. It has been performed in Lebanon, Scotland, and the USA. She is currently writing, performing and producing, \u2018Nomadic Poetic Stories (How I Opened My Heart Through the Extinction of Mime, the Miracles in Paris, and Meetings With a Mysterious Man, Across the World)\u2019 featuring Chinese musician\u00a0 Xia Dong Wei.<\/p>\n<p>Her first book, \u201cAkashic Diaries: Detroit Degree Zero and Other Crisis Writings\u2019 is released in Spring 2023 on Europia Productions (Paris). It is\u00a0 accompanied by a sound art\/poetry\u00a0 album comprising readings and vocalizations of the some of\u00a0 \u201cAkashic Diaries\u201d\u00a0 texts, in collaboration with sound artist\/producer Paradise Now.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Paradise Now Bio 2023&#8243; module_class=&#8221;post-txt artistTextBloc&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; global_module=&#8221;25529&#8243; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h6><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/paradisenow.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img30 alignright wp-image-25531 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Paradise_Now-portrait-Fond_Noir-Contre_Jour-Square-Isa_Belle-Transcultures-2022-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Paradise_Now-portrait-Fond_Noir-Contre_Jour-Square-Isa_Belle-Transcultures-2022-980x980.jpg 980w, http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Paradise_Now-portrait-Fond_Noir-Contre_Jour-Square-Isa_Belle-Transcultures-2022-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/a>Paradise Now (Fr\/Be)<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>Intermedia producer and creator based in Belgium, Philippe Franck has developed since the 90s the Paradise Now project which favors an actively transversal and collaborative approach. He favors a sensitive and cinematic approach that embraces different influences and fields (electronics, sound art, post-rock, post-pop, improvised music \u2026).<\/p>\n<p>He has worked closely with various videographers (R\u00e9gis Cotentin, Hanzel &amp; Gretzel), poets (Ira Cohen, Gerard Malanga, Catrine Godin, Biba Sheikh, Werner Moron in Les ours bipolaires, Eric Therer for the project &amp; Stuff), choreographers (Nadine Ganase , Manon Oligny, Karine Ledoyen), digital artists (Philippe Boisnard, Franck Soudan, Jacques Urbanska, Thomas Isra\u00ebl) and other adventurous audio creators (recently Christophe Bailleau within the duo Pastoral, Gauthier Keyaerts in Supernova, Stephan Dunkelman, Maurice Charles JJ, A Limb).<\/p>\n<p>Since 2005, he has also collaborated with holistic performer \/ masseuse Isa Belle for a series of installations and \u201csound\u201d performances shown in numerous festivals, cultural centers and international events. He has also produced and participated in several records on various independent labels (Sub Rosa, Optical Sound, Transonic\u2026). In 2022, he began a doctoral thesis in Information and Communication Sciences (Cognition, language, interaction) at the University of Paris 8 (CiTu Paragrahe), under the dual supervision of Khaldoun Zreik (Paris8) and Marc Veyrat (University of Savoie Mont Blanc).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paradisenow.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paradisenow.be<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/philippefranck.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">philippefranck.eu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;R\u00e9sidence Laur\u00e9at&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Texte Info Prod&#8221; module_class=&#8221;post-txt post-txt-info&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; 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Radio.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/transcultures.be\">transcultures.be<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/transonic.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transonic.be<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/\">pepinieres.eu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bBased on texts taken from the book \u201cAkashic Diaries \u2013 Detroit Degree Zero and Other Crisis Writings\u201d (published by Europia Productions at the end of April 2023, in e-book and paper format) commissioned to Biba Sheikh at the start of the Covid 19 lockdown in April 2020 (in the framework of the \u201cNo Lockdown Art\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,280,264,122,152,111,107,211,2,147,116,103,99,221,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news-en","category-2023-en","category-album-en","category-belgium-en","category-cd-en","category-france-en","category-international-en","category-multidisciplinary-en","category-news-en","category-poetry-en","category-production-en","category-publishing","category-sound-arts-en","category-usa-en","category-writing-en","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26090,"href":"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085\/revisions\/26090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pepinieres.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}