Born out of a collaboration with Haitham Haidar (Tenor), Thing is a five-sided wooden unit that lends itself to a multitude of uses by accommodating several arrangements and add-ons. Through negotiating what it can be with what you want it to be, Thing lives within the discourse of its limitations & its open ended-ness, its servitude & its range of possibilities, and the agency of its user with its own tactile intelligence.

We initiated our collaboration without an end product in mind. It simply began as a series of conversations about music and design. Slowly, I became more intrigued by Haitham’s process of learning rather than the completed piece itself. Thus, talking about technical aspects such as placement, breath and line, soon turned into engaging discussions about his musical process, agency, and empathy.