Aesthetics are an archive of cultural evolution. This is what artist, writer, and curator Imaad Majeed showcases in KANNOORU, an art-based research project which reproduces Sri Lankan Sufi sonics through digital sampling methods and Tamil folk forms of lament.

In an extension of this research process, Imaad joins TRI Art & Culture on Saturday, 20 April for a sonic poetics workshop that engages participants in exploring their own cultural heritage and environment through memory-based music to create archival soundscapes and accompanying poetics. Across the course of a morning and an afternoon, the workshop will guide participants through close listening, reflection, soundscape shaping, and poem composition — all culminating in a soundscape demonstration and poetic recitation.