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“A 442 Hz” is a single-screen digital video by Egyptian artist Sameh Al Tawil.
Musicians holding different instruments emerge in front of the steadily focused camera from beyond the screen and into the limelight of the camera’s — the public’s — attention.
A small orchestra of Egyptian musicians begins to take a seat, tune their instruments and prepare for a performance, a concert, in front of the spectator.
The image is plunged in a death-blue cast that enhances its sculptural form. Three minutes into the digital film it seems this is no rehearsal session but an abruptly beginning performance in its own right, intentionally missing out on the organic test sound of 442 Hz whilst plunging into an array of sound deliberations.
This video-Art is a metaphor summary of the post-Revolutionary Egypt.