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Nour Sokhon

Artist | Sound Designer | Composer | Moving Image

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Selected Exhibitions/ Performances/Radio Broadcasts

  • I Still Remember - Mad Time Warp - Infinite Playlist - Party Office -  Documenta Fifteen - Kassel,  Germany - (Jun. - Sep. 2022)

  • Voyage to Neutralia - Sound/music score for a guided audio tour - Whitstable Biennale - Whitstable, UK - (Jun, 2022)

  • Flight Mode - collaborative visual & audio installation/ group exhibition - Distant Divides - HALLE14 (HALLE 14 Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst) - Leipzig, Germany - (Apr. - Aug. 2022)

  • Volatile Grounds - soundscape - 22 project -  Liverpool Arab Arts Festival - online - (Nov. 2021) 

  • Revisiting: Vocal Bodies - collaborative multi-sensory installation - group exhibition - What I Needed was Imagination - HBK Braunschweig -Braunschweig, Germany - (Oct. 2021) 

  • Voyaging Through Silent Rumbles - collaborative performance - Ensemble Modern - This is Not Lebanon - Mousonturm - Frankfurt, Germany - (Sep. 2021) 

  • Beats of City Life - soundscape contribution - Salon Sophie Charlotte 2021- AGYA - Berlin, Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities - Berlin, Germany - (Sep. 2021) 

  • Expanded Turn - collaborative sound installation & moving image work - Neuer Kunstraum - Dusseldorf, UK - (Sep. 2021) 

  • Vocal Bodies- sound composition (commission)- Istimrar -Irtijal Festival - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - online - (Sep. 2021) 

  • The Great Report - Volatile Grounds- sound installation (collaborative exhibition) - Festival der Darstellende Kunste Hamburgs - Hauptsache Frei #7- Hamburg, Germany - (Aug. 2021)

  • Blue Spaces - Heya - audiovisual collaborative film - Liverpool Arab Festival - online - (Aug. 2021)

  • Eating the Copper Apple - theatre score (composition & sound design) - Bradford Literature Festival/  Liverpool Arab  Arts Festival/ Shubbak Festival - Alhambra/ Richmix/ Toxteth TV - Bradford/ London/  Liverpool, UK - (Jul. 2021)

  • Abou Farid's War - film score (composition & sound design) - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary for  st_age in collaboration with Ashkal Alwan - online - (Jun. 2021)

  • I Prefer To Travel - soundscape - The Bridge Cuts Ever So Close to My Balcony - Beirut Art Center - online - (Apr. 2021)

  • NeRedeeyiz? (‘Where we are?’) - Heya - collaborative soundscape - BEAST FEaST 2021 - University of Birmingham - online - (Apr. 2021)

  • Resisting Turbulence - collaborative sound & visual installation - Theatre Neumarkt -  Kosmos - Zurich, Switzerland - (Mar. 2021)

  • Nouvelle Nahda (episode 2) - collaborative essay film -  Station Beirut - Theatre Neumarkt -  online - (Feb. 2021)

  • The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences - film score (composition & sound design) - Jameel Arts Center - online - (Feb. 2021)

  • Tumultuous Convolutions - sound & text (publication) - The Derivative - Beirut Art Center -  online - (Jan. 2021)

  • Dismember/remember - Long Wave on Dublab Bana Haffar - radio mix - Rectification of The Wretched - Dublab - online - (Jan. 2021)

  • Courage - film score (composition & sound design)  - Haven for Artists - KVS Brussels - online - (2020)

  • Heya Live Network Jam - Sonic Electronics - Iklectic - sound performance - online - (Oct. 31, 2020) 

  • Rectification of The Wretched -  Composing Sonic Futures - Spatial Sound Institute - sound & text (publication) - online - (Sep. 2020)

  • Fragments - Heya - sound performance - Network Music Festival 2020 - online - (Jul. 2020)

  • Undulation Recomposed - radio broadcast - Electric Nights x Redefine -  Medea Electronique -  online - (May 2020)

  • Nouvelle Nahda - online publication/collaborative performance installation (teaser)-  Resisting Turbulence - sound & image work - Station Beirut - Theatre Neumarkt -  online - (Apr. 2020)

  • What is Left of Us - collaborative interactive audiovisual installation- 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art (Universal Data) Modern and Contemporary Art Museum -  Byblos, Lebanon -(Sep. - Feb. 2020) 

  • Revisiting Impulses II - collaborative transdisciplinary performance - Riwaq - Beirut, Lebanon - (Feb. 2020)

  • Heya Project - Arts Birthday - collaborative live network performance - Deutschlandradio - SAVVY Contemporary - Berlin, Germany - (Jan. 2020)

  • The Great Report - collaborative performative installation - Volatile Grounds - sound installation -   Kampnagel  - Hamburg, Germany - (Jan. 2020)

  • Game State - Cities and Memory - Three Words project - sound art & sound mapping - Oxford, UK - (Oct. 2019)

  • Keynote speaker - These are Our  Friends too - Tse Tse Fly Middle East - UK - radio broadcast - BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction - London, UK - (Oct. 2019)

  • Remix_soloextract_ConfirmHumanity - soundscape - POP Montreal International Music Festival - XX Files Radio - Theatre Rialto - Montreal, Canada - (Sep. 2019)

  • Revisiting Impulse - collaborative transdisciplinary performance - Riwaq -  Beirut, Lebanon - (Sep. 2019) 

  • Heya Project - collaborative documentary film screening/ installation- Sound in Motion Conference - Cafe Kairo - Bern, Switzerland - (Sep. 2019)

  • Drown Out The Other - improvised collaborative sound performance - Unstated Defect (Frequent Defect in collaboration with Yo-yo Ma’s Bach Project) -  Beirut, Lebanon -(Aug. 2019)

  • Untitled - NStant - improvised collaborative sound performance - UDK Rundgang - Berlin University of the Arts - Berlin, Germany - (Jul. 2019)

  • Concrete Expansions - collaborative moving image work - Bauernhof Gruna - Juterbog, Germany - (Jul. 2019)

  • Untitled - NStant - improvised collaborative sound performance - Bauernhof Gruna - Juterbog, Germany - (Jul. 2019)

  • Revisiting: Hold Your Breath - collaborative moving image work - Asian Film Industry Association - Spain Moving Images Festival - Madrid, Spain - (Jun. 2019)

  • Forest Frequencies - soundscape played over Roukaya Hassouns reading of Mahmoud Darwish’s poem “Passport” - Triple R 201.7 FM - radio broadcast - Melbourne, Australia - (Jun. 2019)

  • Almost Poetic Matters of Grey Excerpt - soundscape played over an excerpt of an essay by Carol Que - Triple R 201.7 FM - radio broadcast - Melbourne, Australia - (Jun. 2019)

  • Fragments of The Unheard - collaborative site specific auditory installation - Sellasia, Greece - (Jun. 2019)

  • Granted The Right To Be Granted - collaborative interdisciplinary site specific performance - Sellasia, Greece - (Jun. 2019)

  • Undulation - collaborative performance - (dance, movement & audio installation) - Sellasia, Greece - (Jun. 2019)

  • Transformation Through Chaos II - collaborative sound piece - Radiophrenia - radio broadcast - Glasgow, UK - (May 2019)

  • Confirm Humanity - collaborative sound & visual performance - Vices & Validation - Institut Francais du Liban - Beirut, Lebanon - (May 2019)

  • The State - collaborative exhibition soundtrack - Negative Space and Desire - Haven for Artists - Beirut Lebanon - (Feb. 2019)

  • In Conversation with Entropy - collaborative sound performance - Noiseberg - Berlin, Germany - (Feb. 2019)

  • Fight or Flight - sound performance - ORi - Berlin, Germany - (Jan. 2019)

  • Transformation Through Chaos II - collaborative performance (sound & body) - Riwaq - Beirut, Lebanon - (Jan. 2019)

  • The Reverse of a Child - collaborative moving image work - L'Art, Témoin des Émergences (Art as a Witness) - Zico House - Beirut, Lebanon - (Jan. 2019)

  • Revisiting: Hold Your Breath - collaborative moving image work - 33rd Salon d’Automne - Sursock Museum - Beirut, Lebanon - (Nov. - Jan. 2019)

  • Transformation Through Chaos - performance (sound & body) - Tota - Beirut, Lebanon - (Dec. 2018)

  • Improvised collaborative audiovisual performance - Cirque Electrique - Paris, France - (Oct. 2018)

  • The Ontological Daydream Reinterpreted - audiovisual collaborative performance - Blue \x80 - group exhibition - Villette Makerz - Paris, France - (Oct. 2018)

  • The Reverse of a Child - collaborative soundscape - Blue \x80 - group exhibition - Villette Makerz - Paris, France - (Oct. 2018)

  • Corridors - collaborative sound performance - The Grand Sofar Hotel - Ain Saoufar, Lebanon - (Oct. 2018)

  • The Reverse of a Child - Etant Données - Fablab L'Établi - soundtrack for a play - Soustons, France - (Sep. 2018)  

  • Qum Watwet La Tnam - collaborative performance - Metro Al Madina - Beirut, Lebanon - (Sep. 2018)

  • Revisiting: Morphosis Live - DisTortion - Metro Al Madina - live sound installation - Beirut, Lebanon - (Sep. 2018)

  • The Ontological Daydream- Radio Beirut - opening for Gurumiran - audiovisual performance - Beirut, Lebanon - (Jul. 2018)

  • Radio Mansion - Mansion - Beirut Design Week - collaborative performance & soundtrack - Beirut, Lebanon - (Jun. 2018)

  • Absence Series - Living Room Sessions - Stereo Kitchen - visuals - Beirut, Lebanon - (Jun. 2018)

  • Shame On Us - DAS SCHARF & 21dB- Beirut Design Week - visuals - Beirut, Lebanon - (Jun. 2018)

  • The Inconvenience of Silence - Haven For Artists - collaborative exhibition - sound performance, audio & visual installation - Beirut, Lebanon - (May - Jun. 2018)

  • A Different Approach to Hysterical Letters & Mental Warfare- Frequent Defect - collaborative sound performance - Beirut, Lebanon - (Apr. 2018)

  • People On Sound - documentary - The Glasgow School of Art - group exhibition - Glasgow, UK - (Sep. 2017)

  • Forest Frequencies - Tse Tse Fly Middle East’s debut - IKLECTIK creative space - moving image - London UK- (Sep. 2017)

  • Insomnia Resonate - video game - Scottish Event Campus - gaming festival - Glasgow UK - (Jul. 2017)

  • The Humphreys - XpoNorth Festival - Inverness - gaming festival - Glasgow UK - (Jun. 2017)

  • The Humphreys - SimVis Interim Degree Show - The Glasgow School of Art - group exhibition – Glasgow, UK - (May 2017)

  • Nightmares From Fabric - audio loop - Beirut Design Week - KED Warehouse - group exhibition – Beirut, Lebanon - (May 2017)

  • A Random Piece of Someone - Almost Poetic - audio & visual installation - The Glasgow School of Art - Tontine Building - group exhibition - Glasgow UK - (Nov. 2016)

  • Continuum - moving image - The Other Worlds Film Festival - Tse Tse Fly Middle East Collective - Blackpool, UK - (Oct. 2016)

  • Mental Warfare - The Other Worlds Festival - Tse Tse Fly Middle East Collective - Blackpool, UK - (Apr. 2016)

  • Tse Tse Fly Middle East Collective - Casa Latina - audio & visual performance -Dubai UAE- Sept 2015 (Jan. 2016 - Mar. 2016)

  • Al Quoz Arts Festival - Tse Tse Fly Middle East Collective - audio & visual performance - Dubai, UAE - (Jan. 2016)

  • Huna Al Emarat - The Gallery of Light - group exhibition – Dubai, UAE - (Dec. 2015)

  • Motion Series - Rotunda Gallery (AUD) - solo exhibition – Dubai, UAE - (May 2014)

  • Sculpture Exhibition - Rotunda Gallery (AUD) - group exhibition - Dubai, UAE - (2013)

  • Valentine Willie’s work - Art Dubai - participant in the performance - Art Dubai - Madinat Jumeirah - Dubai, UAE - (Mar. 2012)


Selected Residencies

  • Make yourself a(t)Home: Radical Care and Hospitality - Temporary Art Platform - Goethe Institute -  Brazilian Consulate - São Sebastião, Brasil - (Oct. - Nov. 2020) 

  • Bauernhof Gruna - Juterbog, Germany - (Jun. - Jul. 2019) 

  • Koumaria - Media Electronique - Sellasia, Greece - (May - Jun. 2019)

  • The Grand Sofar Hotel - Ain Saoufar, Lebanon - (Sep. 2018)

  • Haven for Artists -  Beirut, Lebanon - (Apr. - Jul. 2018)


Selected Artist Talks /Guest Lectures

  • Reactivating Memories of Beirut - podcast interview -  Girls Twiddling Knobs - online - (Nov. 2021)

  • Expanded Turn - collaborative exhibition artist talk -  Neuer Kunstraum - online - (Sep. 2021)

  • Heya - panel discussion - Collaboration Through the Lens of Three Perspectives in Musicking Practice -  Istanbul Bilgi University - online - (May 2021)

  • Courage - film panel discussion - Haven For Artists - Tides Foundation - online - (Feb.2021)

  • Nouvelle Nahda - collaborative artist talk - Station Beirut - Theatre Neumarkt -  online - (Apr. 2020)

  • Heya Project - Arts Birthday - collaborative artist talk - SAVVY Contemporary - Berlin, Germany - (Jan. 2020)

  • The Reverse of a Child - art conference - L'Art, Témoin des Émergences (Art as a Witness) - moving image - Zico House - Beirut, Lebanon - (Jan. 2019)

  • Revisiting: Hold Your Breath - Artists On Art: Talks by Exhibiting Artists in the 33rd Salon d’Automne - Sursock Museum - Beirut, Lebanon - (Nov. 2018)

  • A Sonic Dialogue between Film and Contemporary Art Practices - Guest Lecture (Audio Engineering Department) -American University of Beirut - Beirut, Lebanon - (Nov. 2018)


Awards/ Grants

  • Weaving Ties - 2021 support fund - collaborative artistic research - Goethe Institut Libanon - (Nov. - May 2022) 

  • ISTIMRAR - Irtijal Commission Series - music commission grant - Mar.2021

  • Artist Support Grant - Arab Fund For Arts and Culture - (Aug. 2020)

  • Composing Sonic Futures - Spatial Sound Institute - sound composition and contributing text grant- online -  (Jul. 2020)

  • Neuer Kunstraum - collaborative research and exhibition grant - Expanded Turn - Dusseldorf, Germany - (Jul. 2020)

  • Braunschweig Project. HBK - Sound Art scholarship - Braunschweig, Germany - (Jul. - Nov. 2021)

  • Revisiting Hold Your Breath - Emerging Artist Prize - moving image - 33rd Salon d’Automne - Sursock Museum - Beirut, Lebanon - (Jan. 2019)


Discography

  •  Vocal Bodies - Istimrar Phase 1- Irtijal Festival - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in the UK -  (2021)

  • Manat is speaking - Inclusives - Tsuku Boshi - Fair Play - (2021)

  • Before She Lost it - This is Kafala - Tse Tse Fly Middle East - Migrant-Rights.org - (2020)

  • Choices - composer: Nour Sokhon - writer: Cherrelle Salmon- read by: Cherrelle  - These are Our  Friends 

    too - Tse Tse Fly Middle East - UK - (2019)

  • Keynote Speaker - composer: Nour Sokhon - writer: Rashida Sanni - read by: Cherrelle - comp - These are 

    Our Friends too - Tse Tse Fly Middle East - UK- (2019)

  • The Reverse of a Child (Nour Sokhon and Freya Edmondes) - Instruments of the State - Tse Tse Fly Middle East - (2018)

  • Continuum (Nour Sokhon) & Mercury (Nour Sokhon and Issac Sullivan) - Easy Listening Vol. 1 - Tse Tse Fly Middle East - Must Die Records - (2016)

  • Matters of Grey II - 1 minute autohypnosis 34th CD - Tse Tse Fly Middle East - Mute Sound Records - (2016)

 

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