Heroines of Sound 2025: Tag 2

The second concert evening of the festival opens with the sound artist and composer Rojin Sharafi, whose sound textures with influences from traditional Persian music and poetry, noise, ambient and folk stand between tradition and new beginnings.

Afterwards, the Meitar Ensemble will make its festival debut. Works by Israeli, German and Iranian composers composed especially for the ensemble will be performed for the first time in Europe. Sarah Nemtsov explores 'blind spots', which can also be understood as a metaphor for our current social and political conditions. Anahita Abbasi takes an even more radical approach: with pulsating layers of noise and multi-channel throat clearing, a dark, hissing sound space can be experienced. Julia Mihály undertakes a sonic investigation of the desert as a space and historical archive, while Brigitta Muntendorf creates a multi-layered network of fragments and analog-digital forms of expression. Sigalit Landau's haunting video work of her performance with a hula hoop made of barbed wire on the beach in Tel Aviv represents a personal and at the same time political act.

The evening concludes with a brilliant live performance by Yara Mekawei. Combining antiquity and modernity, her set takes us on a sonic journey.

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