Magda Mayas

Thank you @pmargasak for the liner notes ❤️ @harriganslanecolab for the residency in 2023 ❤️and @soundout_festival for the invitation @joetalia for mastering and my love Tony Buck for mixing and recording 💕Bandcamp link in bio

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Making Waves #20 What if the voice on the other side of the phone was someone reading you a poem? In a time marked by displacement, violence, and war, how can we speak of lives so often reduced to their suffering? This edition brings together visual artist Hoda Afshar and poet Ghayath Almdahoun, whose practices turn to poetry and beauty as a means of restoring presence, dignity, and complexity to the dehumanized body. Moving between language and image, they ask: why a poem? What can it hold that other forms cannot? And why do we continue to place our trust in the poet? Hoda Afshar will present two of her video works, „Undone“ and an excerpt from „Remain“, alongside a poetry reading by Ghayath Almdahoun featuring his poem „If We Lived in a Virtual World“. The session will be followed by a conversation between the two artists, reflecting on the role of poetic language in confronting injustice, and on beauty not as escape but as a form of resistance; one that insists on humanity where it is most denied. The discussion will also open onto questions of collectivity and solidarity, exploring how shared practices and entangled experiences might help us navigate, resist, and make sense of the systems of violence shaping our world. Poster image: Hoda Afshar „Undone“ (video still) (Bios in comment below)

Last places available!! Saturday April 4th ˚₊ · »-♡→ First workshop of the Disquiet Series: The Hologram, a peer-to-peer care protocol, facilitated by Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova @mjhartelova Limited places available, don't miss out! @morphine_records_raum 04.04.26 from 14:00 to 17:00 Free registration! Workshop registration: [email protected] Funded by inm e.V @field.notes.berlin_inm The Hologram: a peer-to-peer care protocol @th3_h0l0gram This workshop is offered for people who are new to The Hologram to learn about the history and reasoning behind The Hologram practice, as well as an opportunity to experiment with it together. The practice itself values and puts together the processes of personal introspection, social cooperation, and strategic anti-capitalist organization. The workshop takes 3 hours and is composed of ⅓ part presentation, and ⅔ part participation. Everyone who joins us will be well supported, challenged, and invited to join the larger global Hologram community of practitioners. What is The Hologram? One part social practice, one part technology of revolution, and one part feminist science fiction come to life, The Hologram is a lightweight, replicable, autonomous protocol for human cooperation which at its simplest level sees three people (a triangle) offer care, support and transformative questions to a fourth (the hologram). Soon members of the triangle themselves become holograms with new triangles and the health virus spreads. In time, the triangle becomes a living medical record for the hologram. We hacked everyday online tools to make this open-source, peer-to-peer, viral social technology feel warm and accessible. Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova is a curator and group facilitator who works to create sneaky training grounds for autonomous organizing and collective liberation. They are one of the founding members of Casino for Social Medicine, a volunteer run space on Berlin’s Sonnenallee that defines itself as “part time coffee house, part time mutual aid gamble, part time clinic for collective experiences.” The Hologram website: thehologram.xyz More on:

Throwback to the second edition of Mutant Sessions at silent green! What a day it was - huge thanks to the artists and everyone involved, and to all who came. 🔗 You can rewatch/listen to the full recordings on our YouTube and SoundCloud channels!

We are looking forward to the first concert of the Disquiet series, with 3 solos by Cedrik Fermont, Nour Sokhon and Yara Mekawei ₊˚⊹♡ Friday April 3rd 20:00 at @morphine_records_raum Disquiet #1 weekend 3 April 20:00 - Concert: Cedrik Fermont | Nour Sokhon | Yara Mekawei, at Morphine Raum 4 April 14:00 - Workshop: Magdalena Härtelova - The Hologram, at Morphine Raum Funded by inm e.V @field.notes.berlin_inm Concerts: 10 € at the door Workshop: Free entrance Workshop registration: [email protected] More on: Cedrik Fermont is a Berlin-based Belgian-Congolese composer, musician, mastering engineer, author, radio host, concert organiser, independent researcher and label manager (at Syrphe) who operates in the field of noise, electronic, electroacoustic, sound art, and experimental music since 1989. He has collaborated with dozens musicians and vocal artists around the world, joining networks of academic and independent artists and activists. 📸 by Magda Bondos Nour Sokhon: Based between Beirut and Berlin, Nour Sokhon’s practice draws on archival methods and the activation of inanimate matter as living narrators, taking the form of sound and music pieces, performances, interactive installations, and moving-image works. She earned a master’s degree of Design in Sound for the Moving Image from The Glasgow School of Art. In 2024, she released her debut album Beirut Birds supported by AFAC. 📸 by Helena Majewska Yara Mekawei, a Sonic Sculptor and Music Composer, merges the urban pulse with architectural essence, crafting intricate auditory vignettes. Rooted in architectural philosophy, social historiography, and philosophical literature, she weaves diverse conceptual dimensions. Central to her approach is a sonic opus, blending Sufi poetry and the wisdom of the Book of the Dead. Mekawei's sonics draws inspiration from historical ritual philosophies, reflecting her identity. 📸 by O. Chennafi

Two amazing women visiting @hslu_jazz_volksmusik @hslu_luzern next week: incredible artist, author and researcher Salomé Voegelin @soundwords_sv gives a public talk on Tuesday at 5 PM and legendary bass player and improviser Joëlle Léandre is visiting for a workshop and a concert @mullbau on the 25th. Dont miss it if you’re near by!

Making Waves #19 Before the War It Was the War; After the War It Is Still the War. This edition focuses on Lebanon, a country that has endured continuous wars and aggressions over the past half century. Today, once again, it is facing one of its worst crises in years, marked by heavy Israeli military attacks, the killing and injuring of civilians, including many children, widespread destruction, and the mass displacement of one million people (nearly a quarter of its population). Mazen Kerbaj will present Starry Night(s), a listening session revisiting, twenty years later, the recordings he made during the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon: TV and radio broadcasts, discussions with friends, bombs falling on Beirut, and birds at dawn, all often accompanied by his trumpet, as in the infamous piece Starry Night. During that period, he also started a blog where he posted, in real time, drawings documenting the war, works that were later collected in the book Beirut Won’t Cry. The session will be followed by a conversation with Lebanese multidisciplinary artist Siska. Together, they will discuss the power of art as a form of resistance, focusing on the current situation in Lebanon and how generations of Lebanese people have continually suffered from cycles of war and violence. There will be some rare prints, stickers, and LPs for sale, provided by both artists, and all proceeds will be added to the door donations. All donations will go to Alpha Association, providing emergency relief and supporting the basic needs of displaced people, many of whom are living on the streets. / Poster image: Where Are you, Blue Sky of Beirut, from the book Beirut Won’t Cry (Mazen Kerbaj and Fantagraphics 2016) (bios in comment below)

1st Disquiet Workshop on April 4th @morphine_records_raum ! email us and sign up for free. [email protected] The Hologram: a peer-to-peer care protocol facilitated by @mjhartelova This workshop is offered for people who are new to The Hologram to learn about the history and reasoning behind The Hologram practice, as well as an opportunity to experiment with it together. The practice itself values and puts together the processes of personal introspection, social cooperation, and strategic anti-capitalist organization. The workshop takes 3 hours and is composed of ⅓ part presentation, and ⅔ part participation. Everyone who joins us will be well supported, challenged, and invited to join the larger global Hologram community of practitioners. One part social practice, one part technology of revolution, and one part feminist science fiction come to life, The Hologram is a lightweight, replicable, autonomous protocol for human cooperation which at its simplest level sees three people (a triangle) offer care, support and transformative questions to a fourth (the hologram). Soon members of the triangle themselves become holograms with new triangles and the health virus spreads. In time, the triangle becomes a living medical record for the hologram. We hacked everyday online tools to make this open-source, peer-to-peer, viral social technology feel warm and accessible. Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova is a curator and group facilitator who works to create sneaky training grounds for autonomous organizing and collective liberation. They are one of the founding members of Casino for Social Medicine, a volunteer run space on Berlin’s Sonnenallee that defines itself as “part time coffee house, part time mutual aid gamble, part time clinic for collective experiences.” They are also one of the organizers of The Hologram project, a peer-to-peer health protocol practiced from couches all over the world. Within it, they research the long-term effects of receiving free high quality peer care. With Cassie Thornton, Magdalena recently co-edited a book titled It’s Too Late. Do It Anyway! (Thick Press: 2025) dedicated to all fumbling cultural workers in the apocalypse.

Nice review of “Murmur” by Magda Mayas’ Filamental in Citizen Jazz. Thanks to Franpi Barriaux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #experimentalmusic #improvisedmusic #avantgardemusic #freeimprovisation #relativepitchrecords

Sounding Care - A project on Care Practices under Systemic Pressure by @antheacaddy and Magda Mayas Thank you @karamghossein for the beautiful video work! Contributors include @bani_abidi ,@ghayath.almadhoun ,@dahliaborsche , @candicebreitz , Tony Buck, @berniebutch ,@marina_cyrino , Sherre DeLys, @saltymedia , @jessicaekomane , @drorfeiler , Denise Ferrante, @cedriksyrphe , @judith.hamann , @stiffleather , Gregor Hotz, @mazenkerbaj , @matthiaskoole , @bbanii , KMRU, Lina Majdalanie, Sandrine Micosse-Aikins, @nele____moeller , @landneumann , @gasciaouzounian , Rike Offizier, @andreamparkins , @simjamphi , @marcinpiet , Taïca Replansky, @arlotomecek , Anoushka Trocker, @kae_uich @soundwords_sv ,@siegmarzacharias @antoniaoffizier @dead9vbattery @nico_lh @snirupustimo @nayoule @rachagharbieh @jomiajjomi @tonyelieh @_kamaru_ Sounding Care at the Kleine Wasserspeicher, from 21.11.2025, - Sa., 29.11.2025, was realised with the support of the Gwärtler Grant, and with the support of Förderband e.V., Bezirksamt Pankow, and the Toolkit of Care COST Action. #sound #space #energies #care #radicallistening #radicalcare #soundart #voice #archive #solidarity