In Tear, vocalist, performer, composer, and educator Samita investigates potentiality and emergence through voice. A tear is the aftermath of ruin: what is left when all that is broken, and has been broken, is exposed. It is also an opening, a space of transformation and potential for all that is not yet born. How do we stay with this tear? How can a single body in pandemic isolation work in the tear, through the material of voice and body, to recover a thread? Tear unravels from a single utterance of a Hindustani classical vocal composition, delicately weaving breath, body, and tone with the sound of the ektaara (one-stringed instrument).