Ultima x Masahat: Poems of Consumption

Ultima and Masahat Festival 2024 are thrilled to present Lebanese-American composer, writer, and performer Hamed Sinno with their solo debut “Poems of Consumption”. The critically-acclaimed Poems of Consumption is a literary song cycle and a multimedia performance that uses poetry published in Amazon customer reviews. Partially inspired by Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, the poetry covers themes like ennui, surveillance capitalism, heartbreak, boycotts, and orientalism, while the compositions juxtapose harsh electronica with the whimsy of a string quartet. Poems of Consumption was commissioned by the Barbican Centre and Shubbak Festival in July 2023.