Anis Wani, an artist and writer from Kashmir, shares sketches of his conversations with Kashmiri musician Ahmad Parvez and visual artist Malik Irtiza, both of whom work with sound as an integral part of their practice. Having spent significant time in Delhi for work and education, and traveling across other places, they reflect on their relationship to time, home, and growing up in Kashmir amidst decades of political conflict. The graphic notes are densely packed with provocations on sound, silence, listening, their distinct vocabularies of composition, and the violence perpetuated in «city sounds».

About the Involved Artists

Ahmad Parvez is a singer-songwriter who skilfully combines elements of folk, blues, and rock with the rich tapestry of Urdu and Kashmiri poetry. Infused with a thoughtful political perspective, his music embodies the profound love and deep-rooted attachment he holds for his homeland of Kashmir.

Malik Irtiza is a visual artist whose work is situated at the intersection of artistic speculation and historical inquiry. Traversing across various media such as installation, video, sound, text, and sculpture, her work explores possibilities of looking at time and voids to articulate the questions of language, memory, everyday life, and history-writing in contested territories. She takes recourse in folklore, storytelling, myth-making, and local histories to open up discussions about fragmented time in contested territories such as Kashmir.