Roads to Sintīr

Roads to Sintīr is a 28-minute piece conceived as a singular body of sound travelling from East to West, between Rajasthan, Ethiopia, Tunisia, and Mauritania, tracing lines through the deserts in between. This piece is part of an ongoing multidisciplinary project that is currently in development phase in Tunisia.

The idea behind this sound piece grows from a deep-rooted desire that defines the core of my film and sound practice: to trace how sound begins within us. Across latitudes, what remains constant is the longing to give form to the formless, what the soul experiences, and to seek connection with something larger than ourselves.

The nucleus remains intact; what changes are the forms it takes – instruments that echo one another across geographies, shaped from different woods, with variations in strings, scales, and rhythms emerging from the nature they inhabit.

Across places, healing rituals grow from the urgency to shape what cannot be fully said, to establish connection: to God, the ancestors, the living world, and the unseen.

To explore this, the piece is built through layers of sounds that do not belong to the same origin, yet resonate in strikingly kindred ways. They complete one another. Over its 28 minutes, the soundscape unfolds as if emerging from a single landscape – one continuous vibration. What matters here is not where these sounds come from, but how they land in us – what they make us feel.