YOUMNA SABA

Youmna Saba is a musician, composer and musicologist. Her current research deals with the relationship between electroacoustic music and the Arabic language in its sung form. These explorations manifest themselves in various projects, ranging from musical composition for her solo project, collaborations, and film music to electroacoustic experiments on new devices designed for voice and her instrument, the oud. With five albums to this date (latest being Wishah, out on Touch 2023), she has collaborated with musicians of different musical expressions such as Kamilya Jubran, Floy Krouchi, Mike Cooper and the Neue Vocalsolisten, and has taken part in numerous artist residencies. She is the laureate of the first sound residency at Quai Branly Museum, Paris (2022-2023) with her project “La Réserve des Non- Dits”, and a laureate of the music residency program at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2020-2021).

Pic by Nasri Sayegh