AFA goes to: Youmna Saba + Nazanin Yalda

Youmna Saba is a Lebanese musician, composer, and musicologist from Lebanon. By digitally augmenting her oud – a traditional Arabian lute – she explores the relationship between electroacoustic music and the Arabic language in its sung form. Youmna’s fifth solo album Wishah (‘veil’ in Arabic) is informed by rigorous research in the sonic properties of sung Arabic phonemes and how they can in turn shape synthesised electronic sounds. The album was inspired by her move from Beirut to Paris, blending voice, electronics, and oud to evoke themes of memory and transformation. she will present it on our rooftop together with new experiments in storytelling.

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Nazanin Yalda is an Iranian musician and composer based in Brussels. In her solo work with the setār—an Iranian string instrument—she employs electronic sound modifications to expand its acoustic range, resulting in neoclassical ambient soundscapes that evokes a dreamy sense of melancholy. It is one of the ways in which Nazanin explores how diverse worlds and traditions can merge to create something new, or coexist in ways that enrich one another.
You might recognise Nazanin as half of Floèmee, an experimental synths duo who got nominated for the Concours Circuit 2023 finals and played at La Nature Festival and Brasserie Illegaal last summer.

Meeting @ Globe Aroma → 19:45

Interested? Contact Gladys artforall@globearoma.be