Born in Brazil, 1985. Multidisciplinary sound artist, curator, and composer. Graduate of the Musrara School’s New Music Department, holds a BA and MA from the Institute of Sonology, the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. For the past decade he has been involved in the experimental music scene in Israel, the Netherlands and Germany, as a solo artist and in collaboration with changing players and ensembles. Member of the duo Ensemble of Love and Terror, beside drummer Ariel Armoni, which released two albums in the German label Full Body Massage Records. Has presented and curated works and exhibitions for a variety of cultural institutions such as Mamuta (“The Boundary Went Down to the Foot of the Hill”, “HaMavdil”), Barbur Gallery (“Wiretapping”), Jerusalem Season of Culture (Hedim Festival I + II), and the art collective No Coast.
Instructor and teacher of computer music and composition. Co-directs with Sala-Manca the residency program Mamuta Sound, at the Mamuta Center of Art and Research.

Founder of the New Music Department at Musrara School (2003), active musician (Nikmat HaTraktor, Duralex Sedlex, Krektz), composer and writer, sound artist, instrument builder. Has written music for dance (Batsheva), theatre and numerous performance art works. Has presented a solo exhibition/record (“Where Does the Darkness Go When You Turn on the Light”, 1996). Released a solo album, “Small Record” in 2004, dealing with music and its various styles, and with building special instruments.

Musician and music producer, has participated in the production of dozens of albums of different styles, from classical to electronic, as a producer or mixing and mastering engineer (Tamae Eisenman, Shotei Hanevuah, Infected Mushroom, TPA, Hilly Boimel, Stella Got, Stav German, Albert Beger, Prof. Arie Shapira, Prof. Andre Hajdu, Ben Danzig, and many others). As an artist he works in the avant-garde and free styles, in theatre, dance and independently; has written music for dozens of theatre and dance works. For nearly 30 years he has been combining production and creation with teaching music, sound and technology at Israel’s leading institutions.

Musician, composer, and pianist. Graduate of the Music Academy in Jerusalem (1996). Holds a BFA from Hochshule der Kunste-Berlin (1997), and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (2001). Writes for ensembles in Israel and around the world. His works have been performed in many countries, including Israel, Germany, Italy, Luxemburg, Sweden, United States, Colombia, and Cuba. Has composed orchestral works, chamber music, and music for dance companies. Berman has taught and lectured in numerous institutions, including the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, Bar Ilan University, University of Pennsylvania, and City University of New York.

Musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. Veteran member of the Israeli indie scene. Started out in the 1980s as part of the band Punch, with which he released three albums. After that he founded The Diamonds and released 14 solo albums with them. Plays rock with a combination of folksong, chansons, cabaret, and musical influences. Has collaborated and performed with many artists, founded the ensembles The Slave and Hunger. Initiator, producer, and editor of “Hunger of the Masses” – a cooperative musical project of 80 artists. Wrote and produced all the songs in the musical series “The Store that Has Everything”, broadcast on Kan 11, which he co-produced with the writer / screenwriter Uzi Weil.

Drummer. Studied drumming and percussion instruments in various schools around the world. Among the artists he performed and recorded with are Ehud Manor, Nikmat HaTraktor, Hanan Yovel, Etti Ankri, Zohar Fresco, Dezi Donnelly (Ireland), Kathy McMahon (United States), Susan & Fran, and Aharit Hayamim. Has participated in over 1,200 concerts in the “Riverdance” world tour, and performed in musicals such as “Westside Story”, “A Chorus Line”, “Blood Brothers”, “Oliver” and “Riverdance” – on Broadway.
Doron is the director and founder of the Peimot Drumming Center. An active member of the bands Evergreen, The Latin Quarter Band and Celtan. Plays with the Irish rock band The Willin’ Fools, and drums with the German band Berlin Soul Choir and Hillel Theatre. A member of the David Yellin College faculty.

Musician, researcher, producer and sound and stage artist, lecturer at the School for Visual Theatre and Musrara School. She is currently finishing her MA in musicology at the Hebrew University. Autodidact composer of vocal ensembles, founder, and artistic director of the Quantum Choir. Artist, sound performer and designer for dance and theatre. Co-founder of Studio Strauss and active in the technical-artistic space of Hazira. Co-founder of the Excessive collective and the audiovisual trio Wackelkontakt – which performs often throughout Europe. Lead singer in the Belgian-English drone metal project Atonia. Has performed and presented at theatres, galleries, clubs and festivals in Zurich, Vienna, New York, Paris, Munich, Brussels, Athens, Rome, Berlin, Barcelona, Moscow, Amsterdam and elsewhere.

Performance and installation artist (b. 1987). Graduate of the School for Visual Theatre in Jerusalem (2011), and of the MA program, DasArts, Amsterdam (2015). Wild is a young, charming punker, rote-learning artist interested in voices, speech, words, knowledge organization, anthropology, history, mythology, poetry, graphic design, electronics, creating from nothing, musicality, learning, comprehension, continuity, cyclic functions, Hebrew, English, French, Arabic, translation, printmaking, magic, adventure, friendship, and power. During 2021-2022 she was an artist-in-residence at Artport, Tel Aviv. Wild teaches at “Olympus”, a program for artists at Liebling Haus – the School for Visual Theatre, and the New Music Department at Musrara.

Cellist, artistic director, and diversified musician performing both as a lead singer and as a chamber music, new music, contemporary music, and experimental music player. As a cellist, his work and practice are devoted to research and the search for new ways of interpreting new music, as a foundation for creating contemporary, independent, and up-to-date art. He is passionate about the encounter of the traditional and the contemporary in instrumental practice; the improvised and the written, the absolute and the open. Over the years he has collaborated with composers and musicians, recorded numerous times for the Israeli and French broadcasting authorities and the European Broadcasting Union. In Israel, he performed with many chamber music ensembles, and has performed works by Israeli composers, most of them for the first time.

Vocalist, composer, free improviser, and multidisciplinary artist. Ziv combines voice, electronics, field recordings and text, to create works that derive from her research of the human voice, acoustic ecology, technology and listening practices. Holds an MA in Sound Arts from the University of the Arts London, and a BMus in Cross-Disciplinary Composition from the Music Academy in Jerusalem. Laurate of the Oram Award for innovation in sound and electronic music, and the Siday Fellowship for Musical Creativity. Her work has appeared on the BBC, at the Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), Café OTO (London), Aesthetica Festival (New York), Hansen House Tea House Sound Gallery (Jerusalem), Room 25 Sound Gallery (Tel Aviv), and Center for Digital Art (Holon). She is a member of the ensemble Musica Nova, and co-founder of the vocal ensembles the Hazelnuts and ABRA Ensemble.

Experimental musician, sound artist and music theorist with a classical education. His works are presented all over the world in central halls as well as remote squats. Founding member of the Lietterschpich band and plays in the Solel Boneh and Cadaver Eyes ensembles. Collaborated with sound artists such as Oren Ambrachi, Stephen O’Malley, and others. His publications have appeared in art journals in Israel and around the world, including the British Wire.

Composer, sound artist and scholar. Holds a BA from Haifa University and an MA from New York University. Is currently writing a doctoral thesis as part of his Composition and Theory studies at NYU, which addresses the relation between knowledge and temporal concepts in 20th-century composition. A writer of acoustic and electro-acoustic works, which combine a wide range of instrumental practices and sound-producing methods. He often collaborates with artists from a variety of fields. His works have been executed by prominent ensembles such as KNM Berlin, Argento New Music Project and ICE; his works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Israel and around the world. Has taught music history, theory, composition and sound-art at NYU, CUNY, and New School.

Singer, composer, and performance artist. Founder of the band Habiluim and the musical collective Oy Division. Has appeared in numerous festivals in Europe and the United States, and written music for theatre and film. Among the films are z32 (Venice Film Festival, 2008), Once I Entered a Garden (Rome Film Festival, 2012), and Between Fences (Berlin Film Festival, 2016) – directed by Avi Mograbi. The collaboration with Mograbi also incited the show “The Details”, which was shown in various festivals in Europe. Enbar has also created the works “Sleep Inducement” and “Psychomysticism!” which was shown at the Jerusalem Season of Culture. In 2016 he created, together with playwright and director Yonatan Levi, a musical-theatrical piece for choir entitled “Raful and the Sea” as well as the work “Giants” (Israel Festival, 2016). Enbar founded the Gey Ben Hinom Band, which plays original music penned by him. In 2017 he created the solo exhibition “Preaching to the Choir” at the Tel Aviv Museum.

Sound artist, musician, and instrument builder. Graduate of the New Music Department at Musrara School and of Yeshivat Siakh Yitskhak in Efrat. Meir takes interest in the relation between electronic inspiration and divine inspiration, and fluctuates in his works between optical synthesis, analogical systems and circuits, and rhizome structures. Sound designer for theatre and dance at Hazira (“Pecan Garden”, “Monkeys”), plays modular synthesizer in the duo y.m.k.a., singer and artist in the Gey Ben Hinom Choir and member of the Studio Strauss collective.

Contrabassist, performer, and composer. Holds a BMus from the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem (2014), an MFA in the Performer-Composer double-program from CalArts in California (2017), and a teaching certificate from Tel Aviv University (2019). Her work combines experimentalism and avant-garde with free improvisation practices and crosses genres; her practice includes dance and performance. Sinay is a member of the Musica Nova collective, View Cuts ensemble, and Mobile Budka trio. As a contrabassist is active in a number of styles, from new music to free jazz and avant-garde. Studies and teaches harmony and theory alongside improvisation and experimental composition approaches combining live music in dance and performance.
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Artist in the fields of electronic-based experimental music, stage works, field recordings, ambient, collage, installation, and mechano-electronic mechanisms.

Artist and producer. Active in the electronic music scene since 2005. What guides him in his teaching and creativity is curiosity. It is the foundation from which worlds, illusions and delusions emerge. As an artist and as a lecturer, he tries to conjure up the curiosity within him, and convey it to his students.
“The most interesting works are usually created when there is a framework of either time or a concept. Sometimes, it also requires distancing oneself from the familiar and diving into unfamiliar territory. When inside it, the desire to navigate and exist leads to wonderful things”.
In addition to the thrill and satisfaction rooted in the sound work in its most primary form, this is a young art form – what leaves a lot of room for experimentation and wandering. This is linked to playfulness and something more childish, less formal, and thought-out.
Freilichman’s music has been released in several labels in Europe and the United States. He is currently working on an album due to be released in the upcoming summer.

Musician and performer, instrument builder. Since 2011 he has been a member of Hyperion Ensemble, founded and led by composer Iancu Dumitrescu. Active in various genres in the music field, works through the natural connection of music and plastic art and space. Performs regularly in Israel and around the world with a variety of artists, in the fields of heavy rock, free improvisation, music for tapes and analog and mechanical devices, contemporary music and jazz. Instruments have been planned and built especially for pieces that Frenkel had written. He has collaborated in a number of works with Yossi Mar-Haim (“The Laid Piano” for piano, “Real to Reel” for two tapes and two players, “Youth of Rage” for eight magnetophones, and others).

Sound engineer, soundtrack designer and musical producer. Holds a Bsc in Audio Production from the SAE in London. Active as an engineer for over ten years in the fields of amplification, broadcasting, recording studios and film sound (post-production). Has taken part as a technical director in the Mekudeshet Festival (“Frontline”), Between Jaffa and Agripas Dance Festival, the Jazz Festival of the Israel Festival, Hateder Complex, the Edge Radio, Between Heaven and Earth dance group, Tahrir and HaMazkeka. As a soundtrack designer and composer, he has worked on award-winning shorts and series presented in festivals around the world. In 2018 he founded a recording studio at the heart of the cultural center HaMazkeka in Jerusalem, and since 2021 he has been teaching sound for films in the Jerusalem Arts High School, and studio and sound engineering at the New Music Department, Musrara School.

Composer, sound artist and cellist. His work studies the relationship between personal creation and the physical, social, and political space where it exists. Among his works are the performance “Hanging Garden”, for 21 performers, which was shown at the public venue “NOOR” at Safra Square in Jerusalem, in collaboration with choreographer Tamar Borer; and the installation “Now, Everything Is in Place”, in collaboration with the vocal ensemble Medusa. Co-founder of the Jerusalemite artists collective Sedek, which is a home for experimental practice. Holds a BA and MA in composition from the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem.

Tel-Aviv-born composer. Studied at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and the Department of Musicology at the Hebrew University. Interned in composition with Prof. Abel Ehrlich. Her works have been performed in various venues in Israel and around the world and recorded for radio broadcast. Deals with the combination of acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Her raw material is recordings from her close surroundings, and the combination of other arts. For many years, Keren-Huss has been teaching instruments, composition, improvisation, and musical theory through creation, and in combination with other arts, to kids and adults, musicians, and non-musicians.

Violinist, music processor, producer, teacher, and lecturer in the field of Arab and Mizrachi music, classical-traditional music and modern music.
Born in Hamburg, Ritmuller began playing the violin at a young age. At 14 she left the Hamburg conservatoire, and started to explore through the violin other genres, from punk to Eastern-European folklore.
Over the past decade she has been focusing on the study and execution of the Iraqi maqam, as well as musical education of Arab music. Graduate of the Eastern Music Center in Jerusalem and holds a BA in Arab Violin Execution from the Music Academy in Jerusalem. She has studied with the leading musicians in the field, in Israel and around the world.
Ritmuller plays with orchestras and ensembles as a lead violinist (“Firquat Alnoor”, “Baghdad Radio”, “Ecoute”, “The First Yemenite Orchestra”), and is the music director of Riff Cohen’s ensemble. She collaborates with musicians such as Dudu Tassa, Nofar Salman and others.