Listening Session: Palestinian Sound Archive
Exhibition Join Mo’min Swaitat of Majazz Project and Palestinian Sound Archive for a collective listening session, exploring rare and field-recorded audio from across Palestine and the wider region. Drawing from an extensive archive of cassettes, vinyl, reels, and oral recordings gathered over several years, the session moves through wedding music, spoken word, folk traditions, revolutionary songs, poetry, and everyday sonic life from the 1960s onwards.
Presented in dialogue with Metal Memories: Sounds of the Palestinian Streets, the session considers archival practice as both cultural preservation and an act of resistance, exploring how sound can carry memory, celebration, and collective histories across generations. Through shared listening and informal conversation, audiences are invited to engage with Palestinian sonic culture as a living archive of belonging, storytelling, and community. Inspired by the listening sessions and live archival activations developed through Majazz Project, the event centres listening as an embodied and collective experience.
In collaboration with Palestine Museum and Edinburgh Art Festival.
This event is at the Palestine Museum, where the door is up four steps.