Maya Al Khaldi - مايا الخالدي

Maya Al Khaldi is an artist, musician and composer from Palestine, based in Jerusalem. Maya’s work explores voice and the music of the past and present, working with archival materials to imagine the future. 

Her debut album "عالم تاني - Other World" is inspired by Palestinian folklore, influenced by the present, to imagine a sonic future. All songs include either lyrics, melodies, or recordings from the audio archive of the traditional Palestinian music of the Popular Art Center in Ramallah, Palestine. 

Sarouna - سارونا 

Sarouna is a Jerusalem-born Palestinian qanun player, audio engineer, producer and DJ.

She is also the founder of Tawleef, an independent women-led Palestinian record label and artist space. 

She played, produced, mixed & mastered the album, “عالم تاني - Other World”. 

She is currently working on her first album, an electronic exploration of memory through sampling and qanun. 

She is also working on an all-female collaborative music project, featuring local and diasporic Palestinian artists.

Dina Mimi
Dina Mimi is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Palestine and the Netherlands. Her work focuses on opacity in moving images, blending experimental filmmaking and lecture performances to understand when bodies become sites of resistance through the lens of the fugitive and the act of vanishing. 

Sound researcher Bint Mbareh challenges the logic of settler colonialism with her vital work, whether it's live performance, radio or installation. She's moved by the myth of water scarcity and the power of communal voices to summon rain, and examines the parallels between waves of water and sound waves, wondering how these phenomena might relate to the washing away of the various borders - between bodies, states and tenses - that surround us. Mbareh's activism and art is steeped in Palestinian ways of knowing, learned from communities who retain a deep interdependent relationship with their environment.

Scream Manifesto is a ceremonial performance that creates a sonic dialogue between the performers, the space, and the audience. This piece is the outcome of Hoda Siahtiri’s artistic path and years of research on “coming to voice” the ancestrality in its broad sense. Affected by the apocalyptic times we live in, Hoda recalls fierce feminine archetypes (known by different names such as Kali from Hindu mythology or Aisha Qandisha from the Gnawa musical tradition) and invites the audience to reconnect with their embodied archives as a tool of transformation.

Hoda Siahtiri is an audiovisual performance artist and researcher based in Brussels. Her work centres around memory and ancestral vocal and ceremonial heritage. She is coming to voice through lamentation and singing nearby her lineage of Bakhtiari women in the west of Iran. Hoda’s performances, audiovisual exhibitions, short films, and ceremonies were shown and shared at many festivals and cultural venues in Belgium and in Europe.

Alan Van Rompuy, known by the stage name Azertyklavierwerke, is a Brussels musician. He is known for conceptually using style elements from different genres like techno, hardcore, ambient and jazz in a self-conscious way. In 2019, VICE called Alan "a must-know Belgian producer if you love future sounds."