Palestinian Sound Archive: Listening Session

26oct14:0016:00Palestinian Sound Archive: Listening Session14:00 - 16:00

Event Details

You’re invited to the closing event of the Palestinian Sound Archive exhibition, an immersive archival session with Mo’min Swaitat of Majazz Project.

This event explores archival practice as a decolonial methodology and act of resistance, through sharing archival sounds and images that preserve and document Palestinian heritage, culture and resistance.

This listening session features sounds from the Majazz Project, Palestinian Sound Archive and friends, with merchandise on sale to support the project.

Palestinian Sound Archive is a celebration of music, spoken word and album artwork from historic Palestine, mainly from the 1960s to 1990s. It is part of Majazz Project, a Palestinian-led record label and research platform founded by Mo’min Swaitat in 2020.

Over several years, Swaitat amassed an extensive archive of cassettes, reels and vinyl records from Palestine and beyond, spanning everything from field recordings of Bedouin weddings to revolutionary albums from the First and Second Intifadas, instrumental tracks, poetry, soul, folk songs and jazz. Join us on the final weekend of the exhibition to delve a little deeper into the collection.

Palestinian Sound Archive was born out of the archive and is focused on sampling, remixing and reissuing vintage Palestinian and Arab albums.

Swaitat comes from a long line of Bedouin musicians and storytellers, and the archive references his rootedness in music as a means of celebrating one’s culture and sense of belonging.

For more: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/palestinian-sound-archive-listening-session/

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Time

(Saturday) 14:00 - 16:00

Location

Royal Festival Hall

Belvedere Rd, Lambeth, London SE1 8XX