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.