Safa

Mhamad Safa is a musician, architect and researcher, based between London and Beirut. Safa’s work focuses on multi-scalar spatial conditions and their sonic make-ups. He explores their intersections with aural legacies of traditional and subcultural practices, as well as environments of conflict and violence. He conveys these auditory inquiries by assembling sound design, micro-sampling, algorithmic sound technology, psychoacoustics, field recordings, and their graphic interpretations. Safa's latest release "Ibtihalat" on UIQ explores the rhythmic traditions of rituals from North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, introducing processes of musical synthesis and predictive algorithms that speculates on the future of dance culture.