7:00 pm: Part 1
Terrae Incognitae

Kamilya Jubran

Born in Israel's Galilee region, Kamilya Jubran studied classical Near Eastern Arabic music with her father, luthier and teacher Elias Jubran.
From 1982 to 2002, she was lead singer and Qanun player with the Jerusalem-based group Sabreen, recording 4 albums and touring many countries (USA, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Japan, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan).
She founded and manages a production studio and a cultural association, which develops musical and educational artistic projects in collaboration with local and foreign artists, groups, associations and institutions. She works with local musicians and supports some of them in the production and distribution of their musical creations.
In 1994, she began to make short visits to France. This led to a collaboration with the Night&Day label.
She took French lessons, interned at the Studio des Variétés in Paris (1997), and then met bassist Sarah Murcia (1998).
In 2002, she was awarded a Pro Helvetia grant and took up residency at the Schlachthaus Theater in Bern, for her first musical creation, "Mahattaat", followed by a European tour. She settled in France and continued her musical research, both on her own and with European musicians, notably trumpeter and electronic musician Werner Hasler and double bassist Sarah Murcia.
From 2004 to 2016, she took part in various residencies (notably at Royaumont, Rezé, Abbaye de Noirlac ) and produced six works: Wameedd (2004), Makan (2009), Wanabni (2010), Nhaoul' (2013), Wasl (2014), Habka (2016), which were followed by concerts in major Arab and European cities.
During the same period, she took part in the creations of Sylvain Cathala's trio, Mark Tompkins (Le printemps), the group Bratch (Orient mon amour), filmmaker Anne-Marie Haller (Telling string), the Diabolus ensemble and La Camera Delle Lacrime (Resistencia), Guy Freix (Les enfants des vagues hautes), the Barokksolistene ensemble with Jon Balke (Siwan Jadid), Mela Meierhans' ensemble (Rithaa-Tales of Hereafter).
She is producing 'WA' - her 3rd album with Werner Hasler - in 2019.
Since 2013, she has been a member of the jury of several Arab cultural foundations in the Middle East and France (DRAC, AFAC, among others).
In 2014, she founded the Zamkana association, of which she is artistic director, with the aim of supporting freedom of expression in creation, helping to develop and support artists from the younger generations in the Arab world, producing and distributing shows, and running artistic expression workshops and musical training courses. Concerned by the current socio-cultural situation in the Arab world, she seeks to maintain links with the young generation of musical artists, living in a context that is almost hostile to culture, with no support and no structures.
In 2017, she is preparing her next musical creation Sodassi with six young musicians selected from music workshops held from 2014 to 2016 in Cairo, Ramallah, Haifa and Beirut. In June 2020, and in partnership with La Dynamo de Banlieues bleues, Zamkana inaugurates Terrae Incognitae - an evolving platform that, like an incubating greenhouse, will allow new sound units to hatch; a first episode was presented there with Floy Krouchi, Youmna Saba and Kamilya Jubran.

Floy Krouchi

Sound artist, bassist and electroacoustic composer Floy Krouchi is a polymorphous artist who explores the potential of new technologies in sound creation. While researching the Indian rudra veena, Floy Krouchi developed the FKBass, a bass with integrated technology. With the FKBass, Krouchi creates an electronic raga solo, "Bass Holograms", and performs across Europe, India, China, the Middle East and the USA. She is also developing "Sonic Totem", an interactive sound sculpture, which questions the relationship between nature/human/machine and the function of the art object as a magical object. She began her career in the 90s in Paris with Mafucage, a collective of experimental female musicians who performed as far afield as China. Winner of the Villa Medicis 2009 and Face Council for Contemporary Music 2016 awards, her work also focuses on radio art, with sound pieces that are part essay, part fiction, part documentary and part sound poetry (Prix Luc Ferrari 2010, Italia 2011, Phonurgia Nova 2013).

Youmna Saba

Youmna Saba began her musical career in 2006 and has released four albums to date. Her work deals with the relationship between songwriting and storytelling, employing elements of Arabic music, mixed with electronic treatments. She is currently preparing a new project entitled "Taïma'", a compositional sound research on the relationship between electronic and electroacoustic music and the art of qasida (improvised musical vocal interpretation of a text in classical Arabic) in the context of several residencies in France, at the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Césaré (CNCM Reims) and Voce (CNCM Pigna). Youmna has collaborated with several musicians, including Kamilya Jubran, Mike Cooper, Jean-Marc Montera, Oiseaux-tempête, Kyungso Park and Nadine Shah, and participated in artist residencies such as Hwaeom Spiritual Music Residency (South Korea, 2017), Sound Development City (Spain, Morocco, 2016), Gyeonggi Creation Center (South Korea, 2013), OneBeat (USA, 2012). She is part of several creation projects including Voice Affairs with Neue Vocalsolisten (Stuttgart 2020-21), Terrae Incognitae with Kamilya Jubran and Floy Krouchi (Paris 2020-21), Sodassi (Paris, 2018, 2019) and Menura (Lebanon/Switzerland, 2018, 2019). Youmna holds a DEA in musicology (2014), from Antonine University, Baabda (Lebanon). Her dissertation explores the parallelism between visual art and music, in the context of traditional Arab arts.

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9:00 pm: Part 2
Radicants

Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch (Italy / France)

Composer and performer, his productions range from instrumental compositions with live electronics, to audio and video installations, from compositions for theater, dance and film, to free improvisation solo or with other musicians. His interest is always focused on the idea of establishing a profound and different link between these three founding elements of his vision of art: sound/gesture/space. He is a research composer at Ircam-Centre Pompidou for the years 2019-2022, Laureate of the FACE Foundation for the year 2021. In 2017, he founded the Ornithology-productions label. He teaches at the Conservatoire de Montbéliard.

Ballaké Sissoko (Mali / France)

Ballaké certainly owes his taste and talent for encounters to his consummate art of listening, but also to the long musical conversations he has never ceased to have with his kora, the 21-stringed lute harp of Mandingo origin, a family heirloom. After practicing from an early age in the shadow of the venerable elders of the Ensemble Instrumental du Mali, Ballaké went on to make numerous musical encounters with international instrumentalists and composers. From his Deli album, which marked the start of his solo career, to his latest release, Les Égarés, and Musique de nuit, Ballaké continues to pursue his path as a master of the kora, a gifted and passionate improviser and composer, always exploring new horizons.