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Bureaucratic paperwork is waved and shuffled. The sounds of their movement are what Sokhon is after. They are looped, manipulated, and played over a three-year sound archive of field recordings from Germany and Lebanon, and interviewees speaking about the recent wave of migration from Lebanon, not just those that managed to leave, but also those that couldn't and those that chose not to. The live rendition of \u003Ci>Beirut Birds \u003C/i>stages an interplay of tension between a body’s decision to move across oceans and the objects that carry and bar such possibilities. \u003C/p>\u003Cp>This tension is used to sculpt the non-linear time of migration, with an emphasis on how time is felt and not administered. Over the soundscape, Sokhon adds her own voice, repeating short phrases. A new method within her oeuvre, these phrases act less as mantras and more as images layered on top of one another, lingering and resurfacing when the time is right. Sokhon opens with the phrase, ‘To be in between / to be in the moment\u003Ci>’. \u003C/i>While viewers may initially associate this line with the literal passage of migration, the performance gradually reveals another register, describing what remains lodged in the body after migrating: not the failure to belong to a place but an attachment to the durational condition of holding multiple juxtaposing feelings of home.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The live performance searches for these emotional registers across genres, each track seamlessly feeding off of the last, but always taking new directions. They build on each other to reach an orchestra, not of instruments but of stories on the move. As viewers, we feel how one track informs the other through the power of Sokhon’s slicing and combining of the different voices she has interviewed. They are separate experiences, yet they seem to lean on each other when they are summoned in the performance. Sokhon also utters their words live to feed back into the chorus, which she describes as a way of preserving dialogue in the archives, to keep it alive and to bridge time and distance every time she takes to the stage. \u003C/p>\u003Cp>The videoscape by Gabriel Haddad that accompanies the performance is the only element that provides a sense of orientation: facing up to the sky, and the birds, then down at us. The video lights up the stage, Sokhon, her objects that turn into instruments, and her performance. This juxtaposition is fitting. If this album were a conversation between those who moved away and those who stayed put, it would unfold while looking towards the sky, tracing the birds, and watching the horizon. 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