In 2022, Sandy Chamoun released her debut solo album, “Fata17”, a three-track sonic intervention created in response to Lebanon’s October 2019 revolution. Rooted in collective spontaneity and unity amid despair, the album preserves the sounds, emotions, and solidarity that once filled the streets of Beirut. Drawing on field recordings—voices, chants, and instruments—from protests across Lebanon, Iraq, and Chile, “Fata17” weaves together saxophone, bouzouki, percussion, and Chamoun’s voice into a resonant soundscape of resistance.

For Valeda, music-making is an internal, intuitive practice—a way to process and externalize lived experience. In performance, it becomes a conduit for connection, a shared language beyond words. Her work creates moments of collective communion, where, for a brief time, listeners’ souls meet within a tradition of sound and gathering that has endured for millennia.

Sandy Chamoun is a Beirut-based musician and performing artist. She co-founded “The Great Departed” (2013), debuting with “La Bombe” (2016), and “SANAM” (2021), producing “Aykathani Malakon” (2023) and the upcoming “Samaatou Sawtan” (2025). Her latest collaborative album, “Ghadr” (2024), was created with Anthony Sahyoun and Jad Atoui. Chamoun released her debut solo album, “Fata17” (2022), has toured across Europe and beyond, and frequently performs as a lead vocalist at Metro al-Madina in Beirut. She studied audio-visual arts at the Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth and completed a bachelor’s degree in acting from The Lebanese University.

Valeda is a musician and sound artist based between Montreal and Lefkosia, currently studying archaeology in Cyprus. Her work, informed by intuition, chaos, and fantasy, seeks to manifest the intangible through sound. She has been an artist in residence at MONOM (Berlin, 2023) and the Spatial Sound Institute (Budapest, 2021), with recent performances across Europe and North America, including MUTEK (Montreal), MOFO Festival (Paris), Amsterdam, Berlin, Warsaw (Soul Feeder), Los Angeles, Brussels (Printemps Numérique), and Sacho Festival (France). Her music has been released on Soul Feeder, Angoisse, s.M.i.L.e, Kopi Records, and susy.technology. As a member of the digital arts collective susy.technology, she has presented immersive A/V performances internationally, including ANTILOGY, which premiered in the MUTEK dome (Montreal, 2021), and a 2023 commission for MUTEK x INSCAPE at Usine C.