Creative Interpretations of Indigenous knowledge. In this episode, rain is explored as a thematic narrative element used by communities to codify and conceptualise their relationships to nature. From the myth of the rainmakers to legends of flood myths, ecological knowledge, principles and ethics are developed and diffused through storytelling devices. I attempt to use sounds to retell these oral stories from the perspective of the present. As weather patterns deregularize and rain becomes unreliable, how does the belief in water shift to reflect a warming climate?

A Belief In Water is an audio essay series reflecting on methods and techniques for climate monitoring emerging from research into African theology on water and mythology surrounding weather events such as rain making. Through sound as electroacoustic composition and text, the work over three episodes considers the place and value of indigenous knowledge of climate monitoring in today's warming earth. The work reconciles our relationship with nature through the lens of localized weather monitoring practices that situate the body as the primary instrument.

Hakeem Adam is an artist unravelling the triumph of human spirit through narrative-based scholarly methodology and artist research. His work across sound, sculpture, software and text confronts identity, knowledge production and power as they mutate through our evolving experience of technology and possibility. His durational research practice contemplates meaning and structure through systemic and aesthetic reconfigurations of expression—mutating forms as pathways towards healing.