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Above Our Waters - فوق مياهنا 🌊 Snippets from studio sessions. See you at @tehran.contemporary.sounds x @studio.db.berlin #this Saturday!

As part of our next Frequencies of Displacement series, we proudly present: “Above Our Waters” A/V live performance by Dhia Douss & Qusay Awad, joined by Rand Abou Fakher. An evolving multimedia A/V performance and research project by Dhia Douss @dhiawave and Qusay Awad @qusay_awad_ , joined in this iteration by artist and filmmaker Rand Abou Fakher @rand_aboufakher . Through field recordings, vocals, video and modular synthesis, the work drifts through the waters of the Mediterranean and what surrounds them, carrying myths, memories, and layered identities. Frequencies of Displacement is a concert series by Tehran Contemporary Sounds, focusing on experimental sound and audiovisual practices shaped through displacement, rupture, and in-betweenness. 📍 Studio DB, Berlin 🗓 16 May 🚪 Doors: 21:00 This event is fuelled by existential dread and funded by Musicboard Berlin. Graphics and design: @sanazsolt & @janna.mmaria Early bird tickets are up for sale! #FrequenciesOfDisplacement #TCS #AVPerformance #ExperimentalSound #BerlinEvents SoundArt LiveAV

From field recordings to long studio sessions — a glimpse into the process behind the sound design of ‚Saweel‘. Working closely with @qusay_awad_ , this journey became more than just shaping sound for a film. It was about listening deeper, experimenting, and pushing my own boundaries. Grateful for the process, the collaboration and everything it taught me.

I have put together fragments from that rig - live recorded at home - #LIVE #recording #modularsynth #experiments #home Back when it was sunny 🌞

A review of “Above Our Waters - فوقَ مياهنا”, a video installation with sound and a series of sculptures. It took place at @kunstraumkreuzberg in berlin from 17 July to 5 October 2025, as part of the exhibition @technoecologies , curated by @mariannaliosi . Photos by @jeremyphilipknowles

A step inside the universes I’ve been shaping lately. A little preview into the updated version of Can Artificial Be Real? (an audiovisual work exploring AI x creativity). More to come🪩 Creations and direction Roua Belkhiria @koala_lumpur Special thanks to Dhia Douss @dhiawave for the Sound Design and Khalil Zorgati @khalilzorgaati for the Video Editing

Dhia Douss is one of our guests in the field of music at the first IDEATIONS — on September 5th — at ZIK [Zeit Ist Knapp] — at the Steglitzer Kreisel. DHIA DOUSS [ @dhiawave ] He joins other songwriters and poets and photographers and painters, all showing one or two pieces of their latest works. Come around for a night of discoveries, talk to us about your work, let’s do something together. Readings by Michael Salu, Ghayath Almadhoun, Anton Galaev, Ega Real, Teona Galgoțiu, James Proctor, Tatev Chakhian and Curtis Eggleston. Music by Markus Nikolaus, Ghosts and Errors, Anton Remy, Monstera Black, Dhia Douss, and Oskar Mayböck. Visual art by Josefine Rauch, Julian Simon, Norbert Stefan, Teun Verheij, Bora Yurteri, and Baron Frankenstein. Short film by João Pedro Prado. Hosted by Ricardo Domeneck Produced by Paul Mecky [ @mecky_paul ] September 5th, 2025 19:00 zik [Zeit Ist Knapp] — @zeitistknapp.bln Schlossstr. 83 Steglitzer Kreisel U-Bahn Rathaus Steglitz #IdeationsBerlin #ZeitIstKnappBerlin #DhiaDouss #TunisianMusic

Not the time for Intros LIVE Act ahead Sunday 31.08.25 - @radiance.de at @artbiesenthal Friday 05.09.25 - @ideations_berlin at @zeitistknapp.bln Join me/us - your support means a lot.

Looking back at ,Time Collapse‘ (2024, ongoing) Videoinstallation 21MIN B/W

Just 3 more nights until the opening of The cities wrapped around our bodies! We are excited for the live performances by Dhia Douss, Qusay Awad, Rand Abou Fakher on January 25th 11pm. @dhiawave @qusay_awad_ @rand_aboufakher 
 📍 Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
📅 Full schedule at the link in bio @wrapped_bodies_tcwaob

الحمران، تونس El Homrane - June 2024 @homrane.community 📷 @qusay_awad_

🐚〰️🌊 Tomorrow on our radiowaves: With the second sonic commission with Rippling Otherwise for SAVVYZAAR, we are excited to introduce Above Our Waters – an ongoing sonic research series by Dhia Douss and Qusay Awad centering the Mediterranean Sea with its secrets, its histories and presences of migration, its colonizations and relations to collective identity. The project aims to blend multidisciplinary storytelling with cultural heritages and their transcendence, to develop a language that crosses the personal with the fictional and symbolic weights of the water above, and across, terrains. Featured artists part of tomorrow’s mix include Falyakon, Mandhla, Khyam Allami, Ruhail Qaisar, Shersh, Nour Sokhon, Grillac, as well as self-produced tracks by project founders, Dhia and Qusay. The immersive soundscape stands as a testament to identity, belonging, and the complexities of the diasporic experience. It features original field recordings from Tunisia and the Mediterranean shores, alongside interviews with local fishermen. 🐚 SAVVYZΛΛR 🐚 Rippling Otherwise With Above Our Waters @qusay_awad_ & @dhiawave → Sunday 15.12.2024 16:00 ON AIR in Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM reboot.fm as well as streamed online on our website. #soundday #SAVVYZAAR #ListeningForward #radio #sunday