Cashmere Residency Program Unsent Messages – Sevda Khatamian 27.06.212021

Unsent Messages is a collaboration between Sevda Khatamian (Iran) and Michael
Holland (EU). Based around the idea of sending messages to specific friends,
spoken in their own language and thus creating a surprising & joyful connection
to that friend. The idea to send these anonymous messages in various languages,
spoken openly and in such a friendly way is supposed to trigger an emotional
response from the listener , whoever they may be, by hearing these friendly
messages we hoped to speak to the listeners directly through the medium of
radio. The voice is combined with music by many artists and weaved together
among field recordings by Sevda Khatamian. The intention was to create an
immersive and intriguing dialogue to engage the listener, for a personal and
comforting experience in sound. Sevda records sound for the project “Sonic
Tehran”


Watercolour image is by Sevda Khatamian from her Lonely Places Series
https://sevdak.com/