The Music of Crafts Exhibition came from a collaboration between Qasr Al Hosn, the House of Artisans, New York University Abu Dhabi, and the Music and Sound Cultures (MaSC) Research Group.
The “Music of Crafts” exhibition is an audiovisual journey of the artisanal crafts of the United Arab Emirates – the talli, the sadu, and the khoos. Qasr Al Hosn’s collaboration with MaSC portrays the crafts from an audiovisual macroscopic lens, in which details are captured to draw the observers’ attention to the specificities of the gestures and the sounds related to each craft. Subtle video and audio processing enhance the setting providing a sophisticated immersive experience.
The videos and recordings created for this exhibition will be available to the public to download for free, allowing us to share Emirati handicraft culture, and the musical way it is interpreted.
The exhibit will be running on site in Qasr Al Hosn until March 2023 and the videos can be viewed in MaSC’s YouTube channel, along with binaural renderings of the talli and sadu crafts sound compositions made for the multichannel installation available on Soundcloud.