This project is inspired from the work of Maria Chavez's “abstract turntablism” and Rabih Beaini's technical approach to using the DJ set. In this project I attempt to revisit the notion of a hybrid DJ set.

Performance title: Revisiting the DJ set.

Video of the performance: https://youtu.be/zOlawhdJkEs?si=M7XPtH0DNjJ5KR2c

Technical approach: 

Channel 1: Piezo connected to a running DDR alarm clock via a field recorder. 

Channel 2: A sound piece I composed running through Ableton. It starts at min 10:22 till the end of the set.
This sound piece was composed using recordings of Lebanese / Levantine instruments like the Oud, Nay, Qanun, and Tabla with field recordings from Beirut and Berlin, spoken/broken words in my native tongue, and other acoustic and electro-acoustic sources. 

Channel 3: Playing the Soma Synth Pulsar-23.

Channel 4: loops/tempo change using Sampler/Sampled Mazen Kerbaj Trumpet Solo Vol. 3 on CD.

Using delay, filter effects, and panning of the Pioneer DJM-900 mixer.

Revisiting the DJ set, at ACUD, on 29/07/2023

For the next edition of Unrush, Berlin-based electronic musician and cellist Chloe Lula presents a mix that brings together her background in classical music and her work in electronic sound. Layering her own cello recordings over a selection of ambient pieces, she explores the tension between structure and spontaneity - between the past and the present.

Chloe studied cello at the San Francisco Conservatory before stepping away from the strict world of classical training. Immersing herself in community radio, experimental music, and techno, she went on to tour internationally as a DJ and producer. Her return to the cello was intuitive. A way to bridge memory and sound, much like her recent LP Oneiris.

As a resident at Tresor, with releases on Tresor Records and a recent EP on Blueprint, Chloe moves fluidly between club-driven intensity and introspective soundscapes. This mix reflects the latter: a space where layers unfold, textures blur, and time slows down…

CHLOE LULA on the web:
SoundCloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/k5ZEqZq1dp1vA5y5A
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chloe.lula 
RA: https://ra.co/dj/chloelula
Oneiris: https://chloelula.bandcamp.com/album/oneiris

UNRUSH on the web:
Bandcamp: www.unrush.bandcamp.com/
Hardwax: www.hardwax.com/label/unrush/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_unrush

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria

Tracklist:

Iori - A Fall of Moondust
Clarice Jensen - GOM
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ionoscan
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Halo
Pan Sonic - Johdin
Byetone - Capture This (Part 1)
Yair Elazar Glotman - Home Port
Pan Sonic - Current 1
Matti Bye - III
Grischa Lichtenberger - 0515_15_beginning 2_sk1
Basak Günak, Ah! Kosmos - Porous
Duval Timothy - Go Without

094 - Unrushed by Chloe Lula

شتات

"Venus appears to me in a dream. The sky is cloudless and I drift into a pine forest, mesmerised by the sound of her flute. I find myself entangled in a dance of indecipherable mumblings that, like the woods' inhabitants, change shape when night falls.
I glimpse a luminous mist in the distance, guiding me towards a veiled cedar cabin. I step inside, abandoning myself alongside the other participants. The melody of the flute begins to distort into a fossilised howl, melting into my eardrums and merging with the echoes of a forest that grows ever more distant.
And in the midst of these rustling whispers, I find myself reduced to dust. The flaming light of the cabin will show me the way out: in the fire of darkness, I choose a new life. "

Spanish-born but now based in Milan, Ultramarín (@ultramarin-blau) explores sound as a vessel of shifting consciousness. Embracing deep listening as a core element in her practice, her aim is to expand the boundaries of perception, going below the surface of what is heard. Distinguished by an eclectic approach, her sets span from experimental ambient to downtempo, to hypnotic and avant-garde techno.

Recorded at Espacio Perpendicular (@espacio-perpendicular) during the temple chptr. 9 † celebrating a world of echo † 28·06·2025 w/ ‡ Doozer  ‡ Josephine Soundscapes  ‡ DOC ‡ Pillen.

#temple_for_listeners is an event dedicated to attentive listening and static dance, curated by Camu and Josephine's Soundscapes for Espacio Perpendicular.+

HOCast #256 x temple chptr. 9 - Ultramarín

With Nadim Shehadi in a conversation about his recent Arab News piece:

"Reviving May 17 Agreement could be a solution for Lebanon"
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2607526

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joma at migas 24.10.25

Love Is On My Side w/ rami abi rafi: 26th November '25

Javi’s contribution to La Mostra’s biennial unfolded inside the Convent de Sant Agustí like a quiet act of urban archaeology. Tilect’s pairing of his sound design with Marta Lofi’s live visuals turned the cloister into a resonant chamber where Ciutat Vella’s streets reappeared as spectral traces. He approached the theme in the only way he knows: wander, listen, record, return to a quiet corner, and let the fragments dictate the form. The resulting piece bends the city into a dream logic of its own, where echoes slip into harmony and environmental debris reshapes itself into something strangely elegant.

There is a particular magic in Javi’s work, a way of treating everyday noise like soft clay. Years of diving into granular processes, pedals, and the raw geometry of sound have given him a language that feels both intimate and slightly extraterrestrial. The first time we heard him, at Mostra nearly four years ago, he and Alex as .apart made the city feel alive in a way that bordered on surreal, like Barcelona’s neighborhoods were whispering their stories directly into the PA. This new recording carries that same spark but with a deeper sense of curiosity. Close your eyes and you might imagine an alien craft touching down in Ciutat Vella and trying to negotiate with unbothered locals who answer confusion with a casual sax riff. The tension is playful rather than dramatic, a shimmering frequency that settles the body rather than startling it. These thirty-five minutes show an artist who keeps refining how memory becomes texture and how place becomes pulse. It’s a pure joy to include this one in the series, a quiet demonstration of how listening can tilt your sense of place in unexpected ways.

https://soundcloud.com/javipuntapart
https://www.instagram.com/_javi.apart/
@tilect

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Delayed with... Javi (live)

recorded for my favorite people at Metropolis in Brussels!

recorded @ Metropolis, Brussels 12-10-2025

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 -