An afternoon presenting innovation and resilience from the Iranian diaspora during a time of immense political turbulence in Iran. 

Devotional pop polymath Lafawndah’s journey to her current incarnation has wound as unpredictably as her compositional style. The Egyptian-Iranian-British avant-pop artist has cultivated an aesthetic of displacement for herself and her evolving art, a new musical continent on the border of Eastern and Western traditions. Lafawndah returned in September last year with The Fifth Season, released on Parisian label Latency. The latest chapter in her artistic trajectory breathes a different kind of volatility, inviting a new degree of spontaneity into her process.

Happa’s bass-loaded techno mutations pack the kind of soundsystem punch that pricks up ears and turns heads. He’s established himself as producer capable of gripping dancefloors in crunching low-ends and sending heads spinning with haywire textures above.

Somewhere in between found sounds in immersive field recordings, nu jazz and neo soul, sound and visual artist Maeve Moayedi plays with electronic textures to create ambient and experimental soundscapes, centering her voice as her primary instrument. As an outdoor explorer, she collects textures for her research and explores the relationship between mind / body and nature / culture through the intersection of embodiment, discomfort and vulnerability.