why inbetween
In 2024, HYENAZ completed the final sections of their monumental ten-year slow movement journey FOREIGN BODIES, a sonic and political exploration of management and control of bodies, and their embodied resistance. Inviting numerous collaborators, academics, and artists to contribute their reflections, HYENAZ wove voice notes, raw field recordings, and interview highlights into atmospheric tracks which come inbetween the dance tracks. These are each sonic works that exposes the skeletal structures of sound and process.
The album and live work are made possible through the contributions of an extraordinary network of artists, scholars, and communities, including:
• Sylbee Kim (multidisciplinary artist)
• Sivan Ben Yishai (playwright, writer)
• Thomas F. DeFrantz (scholar, choreographer)
• Mmakgosi Kgabi (performance artist, actor)
• Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau (filmmaker, performer, researcher)
• Rodrigo Frenk (sound artist, experimental musician)
• Tereza Silon (performance artist, body worker)
• Imre Szeman (cultural theorist, energy humanities)
• Erin Manning (philosopher, movement researcher)
• Wayne Atkinson (Yorta Yorta elder, historian)
• Ambra Stucchi (bodyworker, dancer, healer)
• Danilo Andres (choreographer, dancer)
• Vito Maiulari (artist, sculptor, sound researcher)
• Yusuph Suso (kora musician)
• Bartłomiej Kuźniak (saxophonist, bassist, producer)
• Donato Laborante (poet, storyteller, performer)
• attendees of the Anarcho-Feminist & Anti-Military Conference
• Lorca Miziolek (contributor)
• Choirs and nonhuman sounds
• Samothraki Sounds
• KUBA
• Yorta Yorta Community
• RKK & Grand-Synthe Camp, Dunkirk
• Barmah Lakes
HYENAZ’s research for Inbetweens was made possible by a STIP-III stipendium from Musikfonds, which supported their final compositions for the Foreign Bodies series and their exploration of the sonic potential of stone. A pivotal moment in this research was a journey to the Murgia region of Italy, where they documented interviews with artists, historians, storytellers, biologists, and speleologists, further expanding the sonic and conceptual depth of the project.
