{"id":616088,"date":"2024-04-08T18:45:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ka-bairds-journey-through-the-in-between\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T18:45:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:45:42","slug":"ka-bairds-journey-through-the-in-between","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ka-bairds-journey-through-the-in-between\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ka Baird\u2019s journey through the in-between"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2efab61f434\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ka-bairds-journey-through-the-in-between\/#On_Bearings_Soundtracks_for_the_Bardo_the_composer_and_performance_artist_explores_death_rebirth_and_the_beauty_of_impermanence\" >On Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardo, the composer and performance artist explores death, rebirth, and the beauty of impermanence.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"On_Bearings_Soundtracks_for_the_Bardo_the_composer_and_performance_artist_explores_death_rebirth_and_the_beauty_of_impermanence\"><\/span>On <i>Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardo<\/i>, the composer and performance artist explores death, rebirth, and the beauty of impermanence.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261055\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Ka_Baird_-_Bearings_Soundtracks_for_the_Bardos_-_008_-_Credit_-_Samantha_Riott_zsgm1o\/ka-baird-photo-by-samantha-riott.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Ka_Baird_-_Bearings_Soundtracks_for_the_Bardos_-_008_-_Credit_-_Samantha_Riott_zsgm1o\/ka-baird-photo-by-samantha-riott.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Ka_Baird_-_Bearings_Soundtracks_for_the_Bardos_-_008_-_Credit_-_Samantha_Riott_zsgm1o\/ka-baird-photo-by-samantha-riott.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Ka_Baird_-_Bearings_Soundtracks_for_the_Bardos_-_008_-_Credit_-_Samantha_Riott_zsgm1o\/ka-baird-photo-by-samantha-riott.jpg 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960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Ka_Baird_-_Bearings_Soundtracks_for_the_Bardos_-_008_-_Credit_-_Samantha_Riott_zsgm1o\/ka-baird-photo-by-samantha-riott.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Ka_Baird_-_Bearings_Soundtracks_for_the_Bardos_-_008_-_Credit_-_Samantha_Riott_zsgm1o\/ka-baird-photo-by-samantha-riott.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Ka_Baird_-_Bearings_Soundtracks_for_the_Bardos_-_008_-_Credit_-_Samantha_Riott_zsgm1o\/ka-baird-photo-by-samantha-riott.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Ka Baird\u2019s journey through the in-between\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Ka Baird. Photo by Samantha Riott.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261050\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>Discover Blogly is The FADER\u2019s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261051\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Ka Baird\u2019s art is best experienced live. On stage, they move like a mad sorcerer, treating their microphone like an unholy altar as they channel something well outside the realm of rational reality. \u201cI consider my art to be a very spirited exercise,\u201d they explain in a mini-documentary accompanying their first solo LP since 2019. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of ritualistic intent to it, and the difference between a recording and a live performance [has] become quite distinct for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            In fact, <i>Bearings<\/i> was first conceived in the spring of 2022 as a 20-minute performance art piece in which Baird would \u201c[shift] guises between magician, shaman, clown, and athlete, all enduring ongoing states of groundlessness through a physically demanding performance that entailed both play and struggle,\u201d according to the record\u2019s bio. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261056\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2756261032\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kabaird.bandcamp.com\/album\/bearings-soundtracks-for-the-bardos\">Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos by Ka Baird<\/a><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261052\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            The album\u2019s subtext, \u201cSoundtracks for the Bardos,\u201d swam into focus soon after, when Baird\u2019s mother was given a terminal prognosis and Baird moved temporarily from New York City to Decatur, Illinois to care for her. \u201cFor the following six months, I would work on assembling, arranging, and creating these sounds in the quiet moments while she slept,\u201d they\u2019d go on to write. \u201cThe live performance of <i>Bearings<\/i>, combined with the experience of caretaking for my mother and witnessing their death, fomented this record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            In musical form, <i>Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos<\/i> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of 11 \u201cGates,\u201d each representing a stage in the passage from death to whatever comes next. These states are represented in terrifying yet sublime fashion here, comprising monolithic drones, claustrophobic loops, and the unsavory sounds that skitter across their margins.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261057\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ka Baird  - Gate VIII [Official Video]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8GTUs-gg3pQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('261057');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261053\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Bardos \u2014 as those who\u2019ve read <i>The Tibetan Book of the Dead<\/i> or <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/29906980-lincoln-in-the-bardo\">a certain piece of Abraham Lincoln fanfic<\/a> will know \u2014 are the in-between states one enters after dying and must pass through before rebirth, according to some schools of Buddhist thought. These spaces are definitionally liminal (a word which is tossed around far too often but actually <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lies here), shadow realms suspended in aspic above a paper-thin threshold. <\/p>\n<p>            Baird\u2019s album, of course, is inextricable from the death and grief surrounding its creation. But their concept of \u201cbearings\u201d remains the guiding force behind it. Seen as the gaps or transitions between our grounded, comfortable states, the \u201cGates\u201d represent our most precarious moments, when all we know is cast into doubt and disorientation. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261058\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ka Baird - Gate IX [Official Video]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jQJSRdL9pXs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('261058');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261054\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>Bearings<\/i> is, in most senses, a harrowing and solitary endeavor, much like Baird\u2019s live set. Its recording, however, was the work of an ensemble of a dozen human musicians and Baird\u2019s cat, who joined forces to create the \u201ccollective thrum\u201d that serves as the record\u2019s starting point and anchor. Still, the album is defined by its discomfiting elements: Baird\u2019s extended techniques in voice, flute, and, most importantly, microphone, which is rendered a ghastly entity of its own through chains of effects and feedback processes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            \u201cWe are always in a bardo,\u201d Baird says in the mini-doc, \u201cbecause impermanence never takes a break. Change is the only constant, and trying to find ways of being grounded in the present\u2026 ultimately brings about a higher sense of gratitude for life.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Ka Baird. Photo by Samantha Riott. \u00a0 Discover Blogly is The FADER\u2019s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries. Ka Baird\u2019s art is best experienced live. 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