Auditory Notebook | COSMOS & Hasan Hujairi

In this mix, Bahraini composer, curator, and artist Hasan Hujairi opens up a deep personal archive, sharing an intimate collection of unreleased musical sketches, improvisations, and compositions spanning over two decades. The selection functions as a sprawling auditory notebook, bridging acoustic traditionalism with radical electronic experimentation. The result is a striking, genre-defying journey that reveals a radically different side of contemporary sonic practice emerging from the Arabian Peninsula.

Tracklist

1. Taoist Facewash Practice (for Piano and Sounds from Other Rooms). 2014. Unreleased.

2. “oh, to have control of the trade winds!” (for Threnoscope and Strega). 2024. Unreleased.

3. To Eat Whitewash: A Sketch for an Ensemble that does not Exist. 2026. Unreleased.

4. Oud Taqasīm on Bayati-Nava. 2021. Unreleased.

5. Kazē for Arcologies. 2020. Unreleased.

6. Cycle0: Challenge 2 (Slicing Speech) for TidalCycles. 2020. Unreleased.

7. Campsite Americana. 2019. Unreleased.

8. music for missionary’s organ and fish tank. 2015. Unreleased.

9. My Former Life as an Ape. 2013. Unreleased.

10. Pause. Album: ‘THROAT’. Paxico Records. 2017.

11. Retreat Strategies for Ensemble [Excerpt]. Performed by Omnibus Ensemble. 2021.