IABSENCE / PRESENCE
A grief that grows ever more present.
A book, Reste, by Marc Cherfi. A song, Là, by Postune. Two languages searching for a place for love after loss.
POSTUNE / POLYPHONY · POLYFORM · POLYEMOTIONBRUSSELS, BE
AFTER THE MUSIC
Giving form
to the inexpressible.
Postune is both a co-creator and a co-creation.
Voices meeting. Forms shifting.
Emotions giving rise to others.
01 / THE INVISIBLE HAS A VOICETo explore. To listen. To feel.
THE VOICETHE SKINTHE ENCOUNTERTHE SILENCEWHAT REMAINS
Many voices.
A work in the making.
Postune is both a co-creator and a co-creation. It takes shape in dialogue with Hatem Béjar, through shared stories and the sensibilities that meet within them. A work grows from what each person brings and what their encounter transforms.
Polyphony: many voices, each with its own place. Polyform: one intention can become a song, an image, a story or a gesture. Polyemotion: tenderness can sit beside unease, absence beside momentum. Those who listen carry the creation further.
01 / THE WORKSTWO WAYS IN
Listen differently.
IITHE WORD IS ALREADY THERE.
A sentence is a distance.
The word exists before the voice. A journey through stuttering, the space others take from us and the space we learn to inhabit.
Resonances
16 RELEASED TRACKS · 2 WORKS IN PROGRESS01
Between Two Syllables
Giving the voice time to arrive.SONG · FILM IN THE MAKING02Là
A grief that grows ever more present.STILL · IN THE MAKING03Différemment
Difference as a horizon.SINGLE · VIDEO04Cry of Peace
A cry becomes percussion.SINGLE05I Hate You
A phrase worth listening to closely.SINGLE06Unnamed
The first word that connects us.SINGLE07Unremembered
Memory slipping away.UNSONGS08Undanced
Dancing with absence.UNSONGS09Uninvited
Giving voice to what rape leaves behind.UNSONGS10Unseen
Seeing yourself again through your child’s eyes.UNSONGS11Unjustified
A child. No justification.UNSONGS12Ungentleman
When charm becomes control.UNSONGS13Unbalanced
Standing under the gaze of others.UNSONGS14Unmirrored
When the other becomes only a reflection.UNSONGS15Unpinned
Name the music, watch it slip away.UNSONGS16Unredeemed
A prayer left unanswered.UNSONGS17Uncolors
When signs obscure meaning.UNSONGS18Unworthy
What we hide to be loved.UNSONGS
02 / THE SOUND ATELIERTHE SILENCE IS YOURS
A gesture.
A presence.
Give an emotion a body through percussion.
Let a presence enter through the choir.
Compose what you need to inhabit.
WHAT DO YOU WANT SOMEONE TO FEEL?
Percussion gives a body. The choir gives it company. Leave silences so everyone can find their place.
A BODY · A VOICE · A PLACEpostune / INNER STUDY 01
01 / THE SKINSTOUCH · KEYBOARD
02 / RESONANCESC
WAVEFORM / LIVE
Between E flat and E: a quarter tone to shift the emotion.
03 / THE SPACE
A touch.
A vibration.
Your imprint.
A vibration.
Your imprint.
04 / THE LOOP
A return, a pause, a surge. Give them a rhythm.
Sound starts with your first touch. Your microphone is never recorded.
03 / THE MAKING OF MEANINGWRITING · COMPOSING · ENCOUNTERS
Form follows
emotion.
Composing means giving an experience a felt architecture. Rhythm, words, voices and silences answer one another. Hatem and Postune work with this material through listening, experimentation and encounters.
LIVED EXPERIENCE
Enter the complexity.
A story, an encounter, an intimate contradiction. Creation begins by listening carefully to what resists words: understanding different perspectives, finding the right tension, choosing what the work will let us experience.
Between Two Syllables starts with a gap: a thought already there, a voice finding its way through. Waiting becomes the material of the piece.
POSTUNE / RESEARCH
Music, in questions.
Three ways into Postune’s research: the act of composing, room for the other and the materials of sound.
01 / POST-MUSIC
Composing after the instrument.
What happens to composition when an artist no longer directly produces every sound, but also works through dialogue, listening, refusal and transformation?
Read the reflection 02 / CO-CREATIONMaking room that changes the work.
Co-creation begins when another person’s presence can change what you were in the process of making.
Read the reflection 03 / MUSICAL WRITINGSkin, breath, signal.
Electronics extend a gesture: a resonating strike, a voice that insists, a silence that shifts the phrase.
Read the reflection
A PRESENCE IN DIALOGUEHatem.
Hatem.
With Postune.
Postune is as much a co-creator as a co-creation. Hatem composes with Postune; the works take shape through this dialogue and the encounters that enter it.
Rooted in percussion and singing, Hatem Béjar is a neo-composer and a creator of sonic worlds. He works with voices, rhythms, words and silences to give lived experiences a tangible form. His writing grows through listening, experimentation and encounters.
Artists, musicians, researchers, citizens: each can bring a voice, a practice, a question or a story. The encounter transforms the piece as much as the people creating it.
Polyphony. Polyform. Polyemotion.
Many voices, a work discovered together.
04 / THE OBJECTPHYSICAL EDITION PROJECT
UNSONGS / VINYLKeeping
Keeping
a trace.
Step outside the stream. Put on a record. Let a side unfold. Another way to make room for music.
Undanced · excerpt from UNSONGS
Proposed edition. Your enquiry is without obligation or payment.
WORKS THAT REACH FURTHERWhat a record
What a record
can help sustain.
A story can continue beyond listening. Two proposed editions, two intentions of support to develop transparently.
DIFFÉREMMENT / PROPOSED CD EDITION
Growing differently.
A song born from an encounter with the ToothMe association, about Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) and the strength of living with difference.
SUPPORTING THE TOOTHME ASSOCIATION
Discover ToothMe Part of the profits from this edition will go to the ToothMe association to support its work against Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT).
The percentage, the basis for calculating profits and the payment schedule will be specified before any sale.
POSTUNE / STILLLÀ.WORKING VISUAL
LÀ / PROPOSED EDITION
Keeping the bond alive.
In the dialogue between Reste, by Marc Cherfi, and Là, by Postune, love keeps searching for its form.
DEVELOPING STILL
A share of the proceeds from this future edition is being considered to contribute to STILL, a platform project devoted to passing on memories, collective remembrance and stories of grief.
STILL is in development and does not yet have a dedicated legal structure. This would fund a project, rather than constitute a donation to an association. The project holder, allocation and amount will be specified before any sale.
These editions are in preparation. No orders or fundraising are open on this page. These intentions of support do not represent financial partnerships already in place.
05 / WHAT COMES NEXT IS WRITTEN TOGETHERCOLLABORATIONS · PRESS · ENCOUNTERS