Sound as Shelter: Deep Listening (Vol.4)

(NL) Als onder­deel van Firas El Hal­lak’s hui­di­ge ten­toon­stel­ling The Dome Ses­si­ons ont­van­gen ze je voor immersie­ve sound showers bin­nen­in deze instal­la­tie. Met een 5.1 sur­roundsys­teem word je uit­ge­no­digd om plaats te nemen en jezelf vol­le­dig te laten omhul­len door geluid. Expe­ri­men­te­le klan­ken uit Palestina!

Voor deze edi­tie ver­wel­ko­men we Maya Khal­di, een muzi­kant uit Pales­ti­na, geves­tigd in Jeru­za­lem. Maya’s werk onder­zoekt de stem en de muziek van het ver­le­den en het heden, waar­bij ze met archief­ma­te­ri­aal werkt om de toe­komst te verbeelden (meer info verderop in het Engels)

(ENG) As part of Firas El Hallak’s The Dome Sessions, we will be hosting immersive sound showers inside the installation. Featuring a 5.1 surround system, you’ll be invited to sit back and be fully enveloped by sound.

For this edition, we’re welcoming Maya Al Khaldi; a singer and composer based between Belgium and Palestine. She has collaborated with many Palestinian poets, musicians, playwrights, and artists, and in March 2022, she released her debut album, Other World. Maya is currently a PhD researcher at LUCA School of Arts, where her research focuses on Palestinian traditional women’s songs and experimental composition to explore what the sound of future liberation could be.

Maya will present Boka’yat reLived, a live performance of a work-in-progress where she sings Morning Songs, a dying Palestinian tradition. She composes melodies for otherwise unknown songs found in books and archives, mourning the loss of the past few years while imagining a future for a tradition that was once essential in the process of mourning and grief in Palestine.