Meter & Light: Night

2025

3-channel audiovisual installation (22’00”)

Preview at Recess residency closing reception, November 22, 2024. Photo credit: Manuel Molina Martagon

Meter & Light: Night is a 3-channel audiovisual installation which enacts the interlocking rhythms of time in Muslim life, specifically after sunset: prayers marking the last light, sleepless recitations marking the Night of Power, retreat to sacred shrines, the forgiveness of debts and donations of food for all to share at dawn.

Commissioned by and premiered in summer 2025 at The Shed in New York City.

Cinematography: Sam B. Jones
Audio engineering & additional production: Warren Hildebrand
Additional vocals: Zeerak Ahmed
Audio mastering: Kurt Feldman
Gaffer: Russell Burger
Key Grip: Joseph Albino
Color: Jessica Dunn Rovinelli
Performers: Zain Alam, Zeerak Ahmed, Shayan Alam, Jesse Alvarez, Zeelie Brown, Hamza Tahir, Tanaïs, & Ajai Vishwanath

Ensemble for live performance & activation on July 25, 2025: Zain Alam and Zeerak Ahmed (vocals), Darian Donovan Thomas (violin), Zeelie Brown (cello), Warren Hildebrand (guitar and electronics)

“By the declining day, man is in a state of loss indeed.” (103:1-2)

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