29 Mar RHYTHM within the house

An instrumental public intervention with music and sound by artist-musician Fahmid Nibesh during the first episode of Uronto Residential Art Exchange Program in Kushtia, BD.

Every house has a rhythm within it. Which comes from the emotions and the attachments of the people who live in them. Fahmid Nibesh, a musician living in Canada with Bangladeshi roots, tried to fuse with those rhythm within the house by encountering odd and even things around the house. Sometimes it was the plastic pipes, sometimes the brick, or the iron grid or may be the empty pots, even sometime the empty room in middle of the night with nature echoing to his sounds.

Other artist would sleep at night while Nibesh would stay up in different rooms in the 200 years old house and play his guitar sometime and sometime just make rhythmic sound out of any surface around. At the end of the residential program Nibesh created a tune out of the sound and played it for public on the open studio day and he also played his guitar again live with the produced tune.
Kids from the nearby neighborhood and elders too, came to join him, where the kids were trying to learn guitar from him and some elders stood there and shared more stories about the house what they have seen in their young ages.

This process of rhythm making has another side to it, where this process was also reflecting life after many years in that old heritage building. That house lost its sound, noises and rhythm long before when the family left the building and went to capital. The people living around the building keeps sharing how lively the place was before and now it’s just a silent box of memories. Nibesh gave life to the site and gave back another layer of noise, sound and rhythm to the house that also got the attention of the people who lived and witness this place for so many years.

Fahmid Nibesh is a freelance musician living in Toronto now a days but his roots are from Bangladesh. Spontaneous and experimental approach through sound and music is very remarkable in his works.