A Truthful Promise is a live, unedited noise session recorded in a single take to cassette and later transferred digitally. Built from sequenced layers of bendir, oud, ney, a live stream of Al Jazeera broadcasts, and a Quranic recitation of Surat Al-Fatiha, the piece merges the volatility of sound with an urge to detour anger.
Through tape delay, feedback, and detuned keyboard textures, the work uses microtonal shifts, multidirectionality, and unstable tonalities. Its three movements: Intro, A din Cloud, and I want to dissolve in that siren’s...unfold as geography, as impossible transmission, before collapsing into dissonant catharsis: noise crashing like water and fire, until the layers devour themselves.