Dirar Kalash (b. 1982, Palestine) is a sound artist whose work spans a wide range of sonic practices within a variety of compositional and improvisational contexts. His performative and compositional approaches to instruments, techniques, and aesthetics are highly political as they challenge dichotomies, hierarchies, and binary logics of new/old and west/east as tools of cultural imperialism and hegemony. The methods he uses are based upon his research into the intersections and relationships with other contexts such as language, architecture, mathematics, visual arts and further social and human sciences. His regular solo and collaborative performances include but are not limited to audio-visual performances, free jazz groups, string ensembles, solo piano, and live electronics. Dirar is also active as a visual artist, and has participated in many group exhibitions and art festivals in Palestine, Egypt and Europe. 

Yara Mekawei is a Cairo-based composer and sound artist. A prolific artist and scholar, Yara‘s sonic bricolages draw inspiration from the flow of urban centers and the infrastructure of cities. She concerned with the philosophy of architecture building, it’s history and it’s connection with the surrounding emptiness. She extracting the sonic conversation of the visual images. A prolific video artist and performance artist, Yarahas also exhibited work at an array galleries and festivals across the Middle East and Europe. “Over the changing scenes of the city, she composes a personal visual/audio configuration, human community is part of it.” 

Khaled Kaddal is an Egyptian interdisciplinary and experimental sound artist, currently based in London, pursuing his studies on Sound Art. His works focus on the aesthetics of sound with the interest in expanded listening and the socio-political aspects of sound. Scoping on the perceptions and the thresholds of listening, by questioning the radical margin between consonance and dissonance, silence and noise. Interested in enlarging the understanding of oriental aesthetic by taking it to a post-music territory, where structures are de-composed to the notions of sounds. With the accompany of visuals, his performances form a sonic narration, to dance the mind instead of the body. He has held performances locally and internationally. In different formats, he contributed with theatre performances, choreographies and film-scoring.  

C-drík is an electronic, electro-acoustic artist and lecturer from Belgium and the DR Congo and active in the noise and industrial scenes since 1989. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Mons, Belgium and is behind Syrphe, a platform mostly dedicated to exploring electronic, experimental and noise from Asia and Africa. He performed in more than 50 countries to explore the local scenes and collaborate with others, released on numerous labels such as Ant-Zen, Ad Noiseam, Hushush to speak about a few.