Palestinian artist Shams Asma connects life under occupation with experimental sound

posted on: Feb 28, 2015

For Asma Ghanem, the artist behind the experimental music project, Shams Asma, experimental sound is the perfect medium through which to express the unpredictability and contradictions of occupation in her homeland of Palestine.  Summarizing her music Asma says,

“I began working on an experimental music project called Shams Asma, meaning both ‘Asma’s Sun’, and ‘Highest Sun’ in Arabic. I began recording different sounds – the sounds of machines, daily movements, silence, musical instruments, electronic sounds, etc, with an aim to criticize the transformation of lifestyles and the phenomenon of construction in Palestinian cities, focusing on the questions that arise around the audio-visual transformation of ugly, yet beautiful, independent yet occupied cities, as well as other contradictions.”

Source: blog.mideastunes.com