Azadeh Nilchiani, is an artist, researcher, and university lecturer, currently a postdoctoral researcher on the DEM'ARTS project, "Création, démocratie et numérique", directed by Sandra Laugier PR (ISJPS) at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
She holds a PhD in Arts (sound arts and sound studies) on « Sound installations in urban spaces» from the LISAA research laboratory, University Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France, 2021.
Graduated in 2003 from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Tehran University in Iran, then in France at ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs) in Art-Espace and at the École nationale de musique de Pantin in 2009. In 2010, she obtained a Master 2 in Music and Multimedia at the University of Paris-Est. She was an associate and guest researcher at the Bibliothèque nationale de France on the collection of the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB) from 2016 to 2019. She is a temporary teaching and research associate (ATER) at the University of Lille since October 2019.

Her practice is multidisciplinary, combining sound, visual and spatial media, through installation, video art, field recording and electroacoustic composition. Her artwork has been shown since 2002 in Iran, France, Chile, Greece, Myanmar, Mexico, South Korea, Portugal, the United States, Sweden, Dubai, Finland and Spain.

Claus is an interdisciplinary artist working in the fields of music, sound art and fine arts.

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raphaël languillat
• composer / electronic artist
• curator Naxos Hallenkonzerte
• based in Offenbach/Main (DE)
• part of Studio Wäscherei

As a DJ, Sound Artist, and Photographer, Rami's practice reflects a life lived at the crossroads of cultures and places. Subtly confronting and surprising, his works aim to empower imagination as they retell stories through music. They are an invitation to explore themes of memory, time, migration and forced existential exile. 

His first live performance was in Madame Claude’s infamous EXPERIMONTAG nights, one of the strongholds of Berlin’s experimental music scene. From there he appeared at Tresor’s New Faces, Silent Green, OHM, and ELSE and established a presence in Berlin's night culture. Rami has also made a name as radio host through monthly residencies on Radio Alhara, Noods Radio, and Cashmere Radio. 

Insijam, his show on Cashmere Radio focuses on the essence of chances and encounters. In Arabic, Insijam means harmony, and in this show different sounds peacefully coexist and enhance each other. Musique Concrète naturally merges with traditional Lebanese music, spoken words, and improv jazz. In these performances, Rami forms an auditory journey that deeply resonates with feelings of displacement and the eternal quest for belonging. To deliberately bring about this sentiment, Rami is versatile in using media - tapes, recordings and vinyl collected in the fragmented places that influenced him, are puzzled and layered together. They build fluid structures that bring people together and make them belong- through the experience of listening. 

For “love is on my side” on Noods Radio, Rami showcases Cold Wave, Post Punk and Synth tunes with a focus to offer a space for reflection. 

"Layali Insijam" on Radio Alhara, is a continuation of the INSIJAM project by documenting Folk music from Lebanon by highlighting musical plays and instrumental pieces. Radio is an important vessel of self-expression for Rami, and in his words, working with Radio made him a better listener and DJ.  

Moreover, Rami’s sound projects extend to sound art by amplifying chairs and manipulating samples of traditional Lebanese instruments. The Oud, Nay, Qanun, and Tabla intertwine with electro-acoustic elements, field recordings from Beirut and Berlin, and spoken words to evoke a sense of contemplation. 

But his examination of places and spaces and their significance for one’s identity and sense of belonging doesn’t stop here. As a photographer Rami’s current focus is on taking urban pictures. He seeks to find a deeper understanding of boundaries. They either separate or unify public and/or private realms, giving birth to spaces, which Rami coins as a “diasporic field”. Within these newly human-defined spaces, the pictures serve as a mirror. They capture and reveal these for Rami so important themes of remembrance and displacement.

Rami’s pursuit of harmonizing a fusion of influences - may it be via sound or visual art - acts as a reminder to embrace the beauty of chance encounters and form deep contemplations about belonging and the fluidity of cultural identity.

Written by Theresa Baumel -

Performing with things that sound. A research by Janine Eisenächer and Steffi Weismann at "Errant Sound" – project space for sound art in Berlin

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