Sound projects
Performances & Tours
Sound Projects
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Role: Music compser / sound-designer
Project type: Exhibition
Teylers museum, Haarlem, Netherlands.
19 October 2024 until 9 February 2025.
At the exhibition 'Yalla Yalla! See You in Egypt', Teylers Museum puts the work of the nineteenth-century artist Willem de Famars Testas centre stage in a whole new way. The oldest museum in the Netherlands has plotted a journey in the exhibition with Testas’s work as its guide, they take visitors along on a journey across the boundaries of time, space and cultures.
Website | sound sample
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Role: Music / sound-design
Project type: Video installation
Premiere: Cali International Dance Biennial, Nov 2023
Céline Burnand and the dancers sought to revive the invisible bodies of history, by replacing them within emblematic architectures of the colonial project in ruins and evoking the failure of such enterprises, or the damage they caused, not only to the local populations but also to nature and intangible heritage (indigenous and ancestral knowledge).
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Role: Sound-designer
Project type: Audio/visual installation
Premiere: Feb 2023, Berlinale Forum Expanded, Berlin, Germany.
The installation follows Tamer El Said as he appropriates another family's footage to reclaim a memory of a lost sibling. It invites visitors to look for their own recollections in the same footage, creating an act of collective remembrance.
Website | Video sample
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Role: Music and sound-design
Project type: Dance performance
Festivals: IDEA 2023, Zürcher Theater Spektakel 2024, Festival Theaterformen 2024.
Smell of Cement transforms the grueling, rhythmic labor of construction workers into a hypnotic choreography, revealing the fragile bodies, emotional burdens, and dance-like precision hidden within life on the scaffolding.
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Role: Sound-designer / Video artist
Project type: Installation
Premiere: Festival de Marseille, Marseille, France 2021
The filmmaker Tamer El Said and the musician and sound artist Youssra el Hawary present the work carried out during a month and a half residency in Marseille. A collective audiovisual project in progress which, through a dialogue between images and sounds, explores the questions, reflections and observations of two artists in love, each confined to a city due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Role: Music and sound-design
Project type: Dance short film
A young woman and her friends join a car repair shop as «Belia» (colloquial Egyptian for apprentices) to learn the craft from the Ustas (craft headmasters). They explore what this relationship creates as it merges labor with everyday life rhythms to open up a new space for movement.
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Role: Sound-designer
Project type: Short film
As You Lay in Your Grave was released by the Wexner Center for the Art at Ohio State University in October 2020 as part of the project Cinetracts’ 20. The project invited 20 filmmakers from around the world, including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Gabriel Mascaro, and others, to make 20 short films in response to the current socio-political zeitgeist.
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Role: Composer / singer credit song
Project type: Feature film
Hayam, a poor 21- year-old girl working at a clothing factory, goes through a romantic experience only to find herself alone against a society that fears love and adheres to cruel traditions.
Performances
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Role: Researcher, Accordionist
Project type: Musical performance
Festivals: Jazzfest Berlin 2021, IN BETWEEN SPACES 2022, Le Guess Who? 2022, Clandestino festiva 2023.
The live version of Nozhet El Nofous, Nancy Mounir's album. where she combines Mounir's own arrangements and the sounds of archival recordings of Egyptian singers from the turn of the 20th century.
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Role: Accordionist / Singer-songwriter
Project type: Tour - USA
Youssra El Hawary is touring across the U.S. as part of Center Stage. For its fourth edition, Center Stage – a cultural exchange program initiated by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and produced by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) – will bring five contemporary music and theater ensembles from Egypt and Ukraine to tour in the United States in September-November 2018. During independent month-long tours Dina Elwedidi (Egypt), Kurbasy (Ukraine), Mohamed Abozekry and Karkadé (Egypt), Teatr-Pralnia with CCA Dakh (Ukraine), and Youssra El Hawary (Egypt) will present more than 50 performances and hundreds of residency activities, classroom visits, workshops, artist-to-artist exchange, and community gatherings.
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Role: Accordionist / singer-songwriter
Project type: Tour (Germany)
Every year since 2009, Dutchman Servais Haanen brings together musicians from a variety of countries to create a surprising ensemble mix across all styles.
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Since 2010, Youssra has been composing her own songs, a satirical mix of social and political commentary, In the early stages of her career, she would take to the stage only with her accordion, her lively presence and unique musical style soon had her garnering a loyal following. It was in the same year that Youssra decided to start working with other musicians, and a band was finally formed. Ever since then, the band has been reinventing Youssra’s older songs and creating new music, as well as performing in concerts and festivals both in Egypt and abroad.
2012 SEP Hakaya Festival, Amman, Jordan.
2012 FEB Révolution(s) Festival, La Villette, Paris, France
2012 JUN Oerol festival, Terschelling,Netherlands
2012 NOV Fairplay, Brasilia, Brazil
2013 JUN Fusion Festival, Lärz, Germany.
2013 JUN Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany.
2013 JUL Sommarscen Malmö, Sweden.
2013 JUN Oufoqi Festival, Alexandria, Egypt.
2013-14-15 3alganoob festival, Marsa-Alam, Egypt.
2014 FEB Mocafest, Dubai, UAE
2014 AUG Urban voices, Stockholm, Sweden.
2015 JUL Hayy Festival, Cairo, Egypt.
2016 MAR Focus Metropolis, Rezé, France
2016 MAY Beyond Beirut - Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany.
2016 OCT Prince charles, Berlin, Germany
2016 OCT Acordeões do Mundo Festival, Torres-Vedras, Portugal.
2017 AUG Hydra world music, Hydra, Greece.
2018 JUN Hayy Festival, Cairo, Egypt.
2018 APR-MAY Akkordeonale 10th tour, Germany.
2018 Aug kultur-mødet Mors 2018, Denmark
2018 SEP-OCT Centerstage US tour, USA
[Sep 16 The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Washington, DC |Oct 04 Lincoln Center, New York]
2018 SEP Globalquerque 2018, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
2018 OCT Django by the sea Festival 2018, Kiettery, ME, USA
2019 APR Jazz tales festival, Cairo & Alexandria, Egypt.
2019 MAY Alhambra Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
2019 JUN festival l'accordéon plein pot, St-Quentin-la-Poterie, France.
2019 OCT 11th Cairo Jazz Festival, Cairo, Egypt.
2019 NOV Voice of change Festival, Köln, Germany.
2019 DEC FeminEast Festival, Uppsala & Stockholm, Sweden.
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Role: Founding member, Co-facilitator, Accordionist
Project type: Workshops and performances
The Choir Project invites people from all walks of life to put their feelings into a song. Founded by, Salam Yousry
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Role: Actor, singer, story-teller
Project type: Theater performances
AlTamye Theatre Company is an Egyptian theatre group.Managed and directed by Salam Yousry, the group was established in 2002.