Suoni per il Popolo & UJPO present:

Son et Solidarité: Sounds for Palestine

A night of Sound and Solidarity to benefit the Edward Said Music Conservatory and the Elham Fund

19h-19h30

Intro & Short Film: The Memory (al-Zakira) - Mohamad Malas (13 mins)

I see my family, I meet people. I meet them in my sleep, see them in my dreams. I know they are dead, I see them in my dreams, says the elderly woman. She lives on her own in the small town of Quneitra. She talks to her many cats and chicken, to the film team and to herself. She listens to the stories in the radio. She walks through the rubble.
In World War I she was in Beirut, in World War II as well, also during the wars of 1948 and 1956 she was out of town, stuck elsewhere. In 1967, when the Israeli army occupied the Golan Heights she was in her hometown, Quneitra, the governorates capital. And so was she in the war 1973. When the occupation forces withdrew they destroyed the city to make it inhabitable. Only few individuals returned. The woman says she used to write down things, not about herself, about many things that happened. All is gone, what is left is only the memory.

short film, Mohamad Malas, Syria 1975, 13 min, 35 mm (available in digital format only), Arabic

Director and Author Mohamad Malas | Photography Mohammad al-Qaj | Editor Tala'at al-Maghrebi | Production Mohammad Abu Abdallah

Mohamad Malas was born in 1945 in Quneitra on the Golan Heights. He is a prominent Syrian filmmaker whose films garnered him international recognition. Malas is among the first auteur filmmakers in Syrian cinema.

19h30-19h50

Emna Mâaref is a Tunisian Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist primarily known as an Oud player, live performer, electronic music producer, and DJ. Her practice spans a wide range of experimental music projects and sound design for visual and cinematic works, with her cinema projects selected at major festivals such as TIFF (Canada) and the Carthage Film Festival (Tunisia)

20h-20h20

Never Temple spans the Atlantic: Jaclyn Blumas, and Jessica Deutsch based in Toronto, known for their work with projects E-Prime, Doomsquad, Hush, Ghosttown Studio. Alexandra Duvekot in Amsterdam, a member of Blue Crime and art collective Meduse MagiQ. Within this ever-evolving collaboration, the interconnections of sound, performance, and ritual are constantly explored. Debuting with a series of performances at Amsterdam’s Dok Zaal, Never Temple was then approached to join New York’s 24hr Drone Festival at Basilica Hudson in 2019. This performance showcased their signature midnight ritual—a fusion of ethereal cello and violin, otherworldly vocals, and haunting synths, all adorned in attire suited to the characters present in the world they create. This live performance was featured and recorded at the festival then released via Manchester's Golden Ratio Frequencies label. Incorporating the energy of oceans and rivers, Never Temple seeks to transport listeners into deep sonic landscapes that resonate within the body. With multiple EPs on the horizon, Never Temple’s latest work, Automatic Pilot, released worldwide in May 2025 through Canadian label Halocline Trance and the UK’s DUPE, a subsidiary label of Bella Union. As the project grows, it continues to redefine the limits of experimental music,creating a truly immersive, multidimensional sonic experience.

20h30-21h

Jessica Moss is a violinist, composer, and solo performer based in Montréal. With over two decades of work in experimental music, she first came to prominence as a member of Thee Silver Mt. Zion and co-founder of Black Ox Orkestar. Since 2015, she has focused primarily on solo composition and performance, creating music shaped by live improvisation, deep listening, and a belief in the concert as a space for reflection and shared experience.

21h15-21h35

Fifteen Months and Countless is composed of a rapidly advancing sequence of film photos taken from protests on 8th October 2023 to 16th January 2025 in Montreal and London. Music by Anarchist Mountains, featuring a drone sample of an organ played by Stefan Christoff with sound processing by Jordan Christoff.

The photos mark events from Operation Al-Aqsa Flood to the very broken ceasefire declaration fifteen months and countless lives, and demonstrations of support and direct actions later.

Prints of some of the photos in the film will be available in the art market taking place downstairs during the event, all proceeds to the evening’s fundraisers.

21h45-22h10

Gambletron (Tiohtià:ke mtl) is a non-binary sound artist/ musician known for their improvisational noise and work with radio transmission- e.g. Radio "field trips," experimental karaoke, "multi-tonal AM Radio Theremin" and noise performances through large piles of radios. They explore the use of reconfigured radios and live transmission as a sculptural platform for the purpose of performance and environmental exploration. Gambletron's music and artworks almost always function as pirate radio, evocative of subtle methods of resistance to corporate and state control of communications technology.

Performing with an old mic strapped over their mouth and an array of tiny synths and self-built electronics-The music is loud and aggressive. The result is a hyper-kinetic wall of saturated electronic noise among heavy beats… kind of jungle-y these days.

Gambletron is a multi-instrumentalist and founding member of Orkestar Kriminal, with past projects on Constellation Records including Carla Bozulich's Evangelista, Hrsta, Clues, and Matana Roberts' Coin Coin. They also work extensively in sound design for film, dance, and theatre.

22h20-22h50

Moose Terrific is an experimental electronics and synth duo composed of Montreal based Sam Shalabi and Tamara Filyavich. The pair focuses on classic synth sounds but with a lot of polyrythmic, symphonic, post-punk, North African and Ukrainian influences and other mayhem. They have released a debut album called 'The Drinks' on the Irish label, FortEvilFruit . Their second album ' Nude Beginning ' was released in 2024 on the Beirut label Ruptured. They are currently mixing material for a 4 and 5(!) release. Tamara Filyavich has been a sound art producer living in Montreal since 2002, in the last seven years, she began performing as an experimental electronic musician focusing one lectroacoustic, sound art and noise music, both as a solo artist and in collaborative projects. Her practice features work that is both composed and improvised and over the years I've cometo draw inspiration from early synthesizer music, easter european folklore, Post Punk and more to name just a few influences