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Listening Session: Seeing Through Flames: Palestinian Sound Archive by Mo'min Swaitat

4 Oct 2022 6.30-8pm

Nottingham Contemporary
Nottingham NG1 2GB

Overview

This session will bring forward the history of Palestinian music through deep listening and storytelling and will interlink radical historical and social movements of and through music. An archive of rare tapes and vinyl from Palestine and beyond, spanning field recordings of weddings to revolutionary tracks and synth-heavy 80s funk, as well as original acoustic and jazz albums, will be played and Mo'min will elucidate on how these recordings and/or albums have been made.

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