Fabin Rasheed

The Refrigerator is something which is warm on the outside and cool on the inside. To be the same, it has a static hum. This hum was amplified by the stark silence on one particular morning and I recorded it.

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Refrigerator

Enough said.

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Kiss

You remember the time when we used to play without any barriers, fully engrossed in the moment and nothing else really mattered. The sound of the children playing in the pool reminded me of that. 

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Children playing in the pool

The drilling sound from the nearby apartment reminded me of the time back in college when there was construction going on all around our building. It seemed like we were all in the process of building something.

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Drilling in the nearby apartment

Flip-flops have been my longest friends I feel. There was a time when I used to wear them anywhere and everywhere. They say a true friend is like a mirror, and I am happy to stand on this one's shoulders. 

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Walking with flip flops

My favourite element is water. It knows all, it has seen it all, and it depicts flow. The flow of water has so much meaning and metaphorical relation to our life. Everytime I hear the sound of water flowing, I feel peaceful. And I am happy that it is a large part of me, literally.

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Drinking water

While creating the voxorium series, I experienced a creator's block. I did not know what to do and was overwhlemed by the silence. The silence became a great teacher, all I had to do was listen.

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Silence 1 - Creator's block

I like the feeling of gliding in a rolling chair. It is like I have my own vehicle around the house. It gives hope that an otherwise static object can be dynamic, if you choose to - just like life. 

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Rolling chair

Beeple was all around while making this work - in TV, in social media suggestions, in conversations. While he was making waves across the NFT space, I saw many new people becoming popular suddenly and then their fame subsiding. Reminded me of what Andy Warhol did not say "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." ... Fleeting.

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Beeple

I met with another moment of silence, this time in the guest bedroom, contemplating on what was happening around. What if everything happening is actually right? 

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Silence 2 - Contemplation

The exhaust fan had a loud whirring noise. As if it was fed up of removing all the dirt from the system. How much more could it take?

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Exhaust fan

The sound of the train passing near my apartment reminded me of those travel days. Especially that one particular day I went to Goa in the general compartment where we ended up sitting in the baggage carriers at the top. It was fun. Happiness can indeed be found in the most unlikeliest of places. 

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Train

The lock sound of my phone is reassuring. But why do we like to keep some things private? Why do we keep secrets? What if everything about us is known to the world? How would we feel then? Would it be much easier to live then or harder?

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Lock phone

Seeing those boxes full of unknown "gifts" to unknown strangers stacked up in the back of the Amazon truck makes me feel like Christmas every time I hear it.

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Amazon truck

I love basketball. There is something so beautiful in the moment that you shoot a basket - its a very subtle decisive moment. It feels like you made the choice, but now what does the universe choose?

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Kids playing basketball

To come back to your loved one after everything, is akin to heaven. Although I do not go off to wars, I do go for a walk. And the moment I return and open the door to the apartment to see my loved one, is so beautiful.

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Opening main door after evening walk

Unlike our usual lunch, she tried cooking noodles the other day. It had a sprinkle of mohabbat and kismat in it.

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Noodle in a pan

When you gotta go, you gotta go. Flush all those worries down the drain.

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Flush

Chai is poured directly to your soul. Drinking chai is like the river finally meeting the ocean. 

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Drinking chai

I was sitting on the wooden floor and scratched my ring across it while pulling my hand. The sound it made was torture to my soul.

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Ring on wooden floor

Work from home has made us office-mates. There used to be a time when work from home seemed really lonely. Now the occassional sound that comes during meetings from the other room gives a better feel to work.

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The wife in a meeting

There are times when the sound of the monitor switching on feels like waiting for a mirror to defog. I wonder that when I see myself in it this time, would I not be me? Would I have a different appearance but be the same person inside? 

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Monitor switching on

There is a small fountain nearby and I like to go visit it from time to time. The water coming out continuously makes it look like an infinite source of energy. What exactly limits an infinite source? Itself?

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Fountain

I collect keychains. My friends who travel far and wide used to bring me a keychain as a souvenir. And then I link them up with each other and make a chain of keychains. Sometimes when I pick this chain up, it feels like the whole world is in my hands, connected and linked together.

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Keychain

There is something deep about resonance. Resonance is when you match frequencies. This usually happens when we sing at the same pitch. And I try this out with many people, not singing (I am bad at that), but thinking...feeling..

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Resonance

For a long time we thought that someone was playing table-tennis downstairs. But it was cricket with a plastic ball (?) Funny how what we perceive could be different from the actual truth.

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Cricket table tennis

Clothes on hangers are like people, you know...just hanging. And when these clothes are removed, they seem like a bunch of empty skeletons. The sound made when you push all of them to a side makes me think that I have skeletons in my closet.

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Hangers

When the candle blows out, where does the flame go? 

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Candle blows out

I sometimes like to slide with my flip-flops on the floor at a speed and say "yo". Just a happy thing that I do, nothing else.

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The slide and yo

Sometimes I feel like a pianist when I type on my laptop keyboard. Although I am not playing a symphony, I am creating my own version of it.

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Keyboard

She recorded this one. Well she wasn't exactly annoyed, but she wanted me to hear it. Sort of like a feedback on my restful state. I don't think I'll sleep the same ever again. This image will remind me. 

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Snoring

I gave my laptop for repair and got some parts replaced. It had one of those stickers which could be slowly peeled off. Felt like a very meditative experience - removing the dirty sticker slowly and steadily, to reveal the fresh new part underneath.

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Peeling sticker off laptop

Errr.....a pause here. What's next? Do I try to know? Or do I wait?

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Errr

Voxorium is a 3D, generative, sound-reactive and hence interactive sculpture - A peaceful art that flutters with sound.
The final interactive artwork can be experienced at: https://nurecas.github.io/voxorium 
or at: 
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZJqEUoiMGhmdKWN8EZKjP2NNhXa77foTQSghSFBzTgt5

Voxorium is not only a sound-reactive work, but can also record a conversation, a music clip or an audio moment in the form of a 3D sculpture and an .ogg file. As soon as you load Voxorium, recording begins. Pressing the enter button will download the image, the audio recording and the sound sculpture model (GLTF) corresponding to the conversation. This image/sculpture will be unique and hence can be preserved as a memory/representation of that conversation/music etc. ( Maximum recording time is 1 minute, after which the file will be auto-downloaded. ) Thus, the artwork goes beyond just interaction, but also into creation - in the form of a memorabilia of a conversation/music.

The pandemic of 2020 had forced us to be inside our homes. When 2021 started I had renewed hopes, but things remained the same. I started to experience a lot of silence around me. And to my own consternation, the silence grew such that any sound around me made an indescribable impact on me. Perhaps it’s easier to say I became more sensitive to sound. With Voxorium I wanted to create generative variants, but I wanted to go beyond assigning a random number and generating with code. I wanted to give it a human touch. My heightened sensitivity drove me into listening to those subtle sounds around me which I usually comfortably ignore. I realised each of these sounds had a memory, a thought or a feeling attached to it. I decided to “visualise” these sounds. I recorded these sounds (33 in total) and played it through different unique variants of Voxorium and used the generated images as layers for this art. I also added, the memory, thought or feeling associated with the sounds in the description of each layer. Thus the artwork is also a collection of myself in parts and is such that “the whole becomes the part becomes the whole becomes the part”

A note on privacy - 
1. Voxorium is completely front-end based and does not store any sound data/recording. All recording happens in the browser only. The experience best works on Desktop. 
2. I decided to keep all recordings and 3d models corresponding to the layers to myself, but have shared the image and the story related to it in the layers.

Voxorium

Layers for "Voxorium"