The Consortium Commissions
We are happy to announce that Sandy Chamoun’s performance, Sawt El Doumouh, will premiere at Ancienne Belgique (Brussels) and Le Guess Who? (Utrecht) next month, as part of the third edition of Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions 2023/2025.
Sandy Chamoun
Sawt El Doumouh
Ancienne Belgique
On November 4, 2025 at 7pm
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Le Guess Who?
On November 7, 2025 at 3:45pm
Inspired by Cantu a Tenore, the Sardinian overtone throat singing tradition, Sandy’s project, Sawt El Doumouh, explores extended vocal techniques and real-time processing. Using a custom Max plugin that Anthony Sahyoun developed to extract and freeze resonant vowels, the album blends vocal composition and sonic experimentation within a polyphonic framework. Anthony Sahyoun and Ali Hout join Sandy for the live performance, using synth, percussion, and rhythm. You can read more about Sandy’s concert at Ancienne Belgique here and at Le Guess Who? here.
Sandy Chamoun (b. 1987) works and lives in Beirut. She graduated from the Audiovisual and Cinematic Studies Department at the Université Saint-Joseph and studied acting at The Lebanese University. She is a founding member of the The Great Departed, which released their first album, La Bombe, in 2016. She participated in several shows as a lead singer at Metro Al Madina in Beirut. Sandy is also a founding member of the band SANAM, whose debut album was released in June 2023. Her debut solo EP, FATA17OCT, was released in December 2022.
Art Time Residencies: Performance
We are happy to announce that Cis-tem Error, a performance by Lebanese choreographer and dancer Nadim Bahsoun, will be premiering at BUDA Kunstencentrum, as part of NEXT Festival in Kortrijk, Belgium. Nadim was invited to develop and present this project as part of Mophradat’s Art Time Residencies: Performance, following an open call launched in 2024.
Nadim Bahsoun
Cist-tem Error
November 9, 2025 at 5pm & 6:15pm
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November 10, 2025 at 7pm & 8pm
BUDA Kunstencentrum
In Cist-tem Error, Nadim invites the audience into an immersive experience, where safe spaces are questioned and the teachings of his grandmother, Ãmina, are shared. Unusually set in the theatre backstage, the performance takes the audience on a journey through the hidden corridors, stairs, and dimly lit spaces of the theatre building. There, Nadim shares an intimate ritual comprised of stories, aromas, tastes, songs, and dance, through which he explores his search for safety as well as wartime and colonial traumas. All throughout, Nadim celebrates the resilience of his grandmother, who rebuilt her house with her own hands after the French army had burnt it down.
Nadim Bahsoun (b. 1986) is a Lebanese artist based in Europe. He began his theatre and dance training in Lebanon and later studied economics and performing arts at the University of Nice and Paris VII. Nadim has toured internationally as a performer, creative collaborator, and choreographer for projects in theatre, dance, cinema, and video art. Besides touring, Nadim is currently collaborating on a hybrid contemporary opera with writer Eyad Houssami and is part of a queer film project by Egyptian artist Mohammad Shawky Hassan.