On 4 and 5 October 2024, team members Martin Stokes, Rim Irscheid, Sophie Frankford and PhD student Merel Dubois Van Slageren participated in the panel ‘Of What is Music Capable […]
‘Beyond 1932’ team attended the performance of the five-member Nasim-e Tarab Ensemble. It was a suite of classical Iranian music composed and arranged by Saeid Kordmafi, based on his extensive […]
Farid took part to the closing event of the Palestinian Sound Archive exhibition, accessible from 27 July to 1 November 2024 at Southbank Centre. It explores archival practice as a […]
Sophie Frankford and Yara Salahiddeen recently participated in a panel at the annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) entitled Melodious Resistance: Music, Politics and Pedagogy. Sophie […]
Rim and Farid as members of Counterpoints network participated to the ‘Annual Get Together’ in 4 December 2024, co-hosted with Unbound Philanthropy. The event gathered artists, cultural networks, and organisations working […]
The Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum has been running since 2007 and is open to researchers, students and anyone interested in the music and culture of the region. […]
Olivia Melkonian and Dr Rim Irscheid hosted a sound archiving and memory workshop on Sunday, 2nd February 2025 at the REACH space entitled “Archival Skills Training: Preserving Sound and Memory […]
Come and share with us a unique evening with the electro-tarab vibes of Rust (Petra and Hany) of Levantine origin and living in the Czech Republic. Rust is a Prague-based […]
Join us for a special afternoon bringing together artists from Egypt (Sara Hamdy and Shadwa Ali), London-based creatives, researchers, and those interested in contemporary Egyptian music, sound art, and archives. […]
Join us for a multidisciplinary live performance that brings to life Sara Hamdy’s groundbreaking research into the history of electronic music and experimental sound in Egypt.
Public lecture with Prof Jean Lambert, ethnomusicologist from Paris.
Let’s discover Kareem Samara with his Oud, Arabic percussion, loopers and samplers. Kareem Samara is an improviser and composer from London. He has worked extensively in theatre as a composer […]