A spatial sonic narrative placing the audience within the
Cremisan Valley, one of the last remaining accessible green spaces around Bethlehem, Palestine.
Mixing recordings of sound sculptures, nature, and the live performances created there in the 2024 edition of Sounds of Places, with new live interventions by a group of invited original resident artists, the piece recreates and transforms the valley’s sonic landscape in an original sound installation conceived for the new spaces of Spazio VOCE at Triennale Milano as part of FOG 2025.
The installation-performance is an extension of the sonic analogies which arouse in the artists' encounters with the place, carrying the sounds of the valley into new spaces and times as a way to listen, collectively..
Sounds of Places participants in Milan
Sami El-Enany
Sami El-Enany is an artist who works with sound, fraying the edges of modern classical, electronica, storytelling and found sound. His work includes multi-channel installation, electroacoustic composition, sound design, record production and image-sound collaboration. As a musician and improviser, Sami is currently developing tape collage techniques as a tool for listening and reflection. The source material for the tapes are a scrapbook of exploratory recording sessions, off-cuts from film scores, and found sound spanning his travels as a field recordist. Sami narrates the tape collages with improvisations at the piano.
Through his practice and research, Sami is delving into the sonics of solidarity, exploring sound as resonance for union. Sami’s compositions have received accolades from the Africa Movie Academy Awards, Grand Prix Nova, BBC Drama Awards and Phonurgia Nova. He is a visiting lecturer at Sandberg Institute.
A resident artist in the first edition of Sounds of Places, Sami El-Enany will perform in Sounds of Places: Cremisan Valley at Spazio VOCE with a new elaboration of the sound piece originally composed and produced in Palestine in 2024.