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2026


Sunday 19 April
Evening: Concert
Cafe Oto


Doors 7.00pm
Music 7.45pm
Ends 10.45pm


The Museum of the Lowest Place

Sam Salem سالم أسامة presents the world premiere of this major commission for voice, piano, violin, double bass and microtonal guitar. Performed by Nina Guo, Daniel Brew, Linda Jankowska, Edward Kass, Mark Knoop. This work is supported by PRS Foundation’s Composers’ Fund.

Bint Mbareh بنت مبارح

Sound researcher and organiser with Exist Festival, with a focus on water in Palestine. She challenges settler-colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage, as an instigator of political revolution.

Khabat Abas عەباس خەبات & Hardi Kurda کوردە هەردی

Another Sky Artist in Residence Khabat Abas presents development work for an Another Sky commission for late 2026.

YUNIS يونس

The Egyptian artist presents Ninety Nine Eyes, a new live ritual set and album weaving Afro-Arab rhythms, trance structures and electronic maximalism into a sonic pilgrimage.

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Sam Salem أسامة سالم  is an award-winning composer and artistic director. He creates audiovisual works for performers, electronics and video which challenge traditional notions of concert presentation and instrumental virtuosity. His work is fundamentally psychogeopraphical, informed by site-specific research – the layers of myth and history that he uncovers form the building blocks of his work. He is a founding member of Distractfold Ensemble and co-director of the Another Sky Festival. He has most recently written for Mark Knoop, Noam Bierstone, Weston Olencki and Linda Jankowska, and is currently writing a new, concert-length work for Montreal-based ensemble No Hay Banda. The Museum of the Lowest Place, his new work for this year's festival, was supported by the PRS Foundation’s Composers’ Fund.