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Sonic Jeel is a collaborative lab investigating sound, electronic music, and audiovisual media within the context of Qatar and the Gulf region. We celebrate the interplay of the sonic and the graphic toward a new generation of interdisciplinary makers. Sonic Jeel provides a platform for exploratory research, production, and distribution of experimental sonic work in support of the growing creative industry in Doha. Our work has been exhibited regionally and internationally in reputable creative venues.
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Sonic Jeel is a collaborative lab investigating sound, electronic music, and audiovisual media within the context of Qatar and the Gulf region. We celebrate the interplay of the sonic and the graphic toward a new generation of interdisciplinary makers. Sonic Jeel provides a platform for exploratory research, production, and distribution of experimental sonic work in support of the growing creative industry in Doha. Our work has been exhibited regionally and internationally in reputable creative venues.
Sonic Jeel is a collaborative lab investigating sound, electronic music, and audiovisual media within the context of Qatar and the Gulf region. We celebrate the interplay of the sonic and the graphic toward a new generation of interdisciplinary makers. Sonic Jeel provides a platform for exploratory research, production, and distribution of experimental sonic work in support of the growing creative industry in Doha. Our work has been exhibited regionally and internationally in reputable creative venues.
Tale of Place is a series of projects that brings together fieldwork and creative translation. Through images, sound, and various forms of artistic production, it explores personal geographies that connect our creative community in Qatar to locations of particular significance.
The series begins with Roccella Jonica, a small town in southern Calabria and the hometown of one of the four curators. Facing the Ionian Sea and nestled among hills planted with olive trees, it is a place of ancient history and remarkable light, situated along the Costa dei Gelsomini. Our intention is to build geographic, cultural, and artistic connections between Roccella, the Mediterranean, and the creative community in Doha.
Over the years, we have documented people, landscapes, rituals, and everyday life. Our most recent visit focused on the olive harvest and the cold-press process, a practice shared with many countries of the Arab Mediterranean world and widely represented in Qatar. From these images and observations, an archive emerged, organized by themes, from which the project has taken shape.
Tale of Place seeks to transform this archive into a layered cultural dialogue. By sharing it with a group of artists, designers, and makers based in Qatar, the project invites reinterpretations of Roccella shaped not by direct experience but by distance, imagination, and memory. The artists are invited to explore the archive and respond in any language that resonates with their practice. Their voices compose a multifaceted narration of a place told through multiple perspectives, revealing how geography, distance, and belonging interweave.
The video above is a playthrough of the special edition catalog, printed in Italy, which includes a translucent yellow special edition flexi-disc vinyl single with the track ‘Harvest’.
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Curated by Stella Colaleo, Michael Hersrud, Eman Makki, Simone Muscolino for Sonic Jeel. Publication Design by Michael Hersrud & Eman Makki. Exhibition Design by Stella Colaleo with Sofia Isabel Flores and Claudio Armocida. Music by Gabriele Albanese, traditional instruments and arrangement; Simone Muscolino, synths and arrangement; Mastering by Giuseppe Novella; Produced by Sonic Jeel. Printed by Rubbettino Print, Soveria Mannelli, Italy. Flexi-disc Pressed by DMS, United Kingdom.
Sonic Fields
An immersive sensory installation at Liwan Design District Qatar
in Association with the Design Doha Biennial
Sonic Fields is an ambient environment that combines generative audio and visuals, creating an immersive sensory experience to wonder and wander. The core of this installation is an evolving soundscape crafted from a rich library of modified local field recordings, mixed with synthesized melodies, blips, and glitches. The visual content responds to the sound, slowly weaving together a tapestry of pattern and color.
The sonic content is generated by a modular synth system to trigger and transform the field recordings and electronic pulses in real time, creating an ever-changing sonic journey. The audio interplays with a code-crafted video synth engine that generates graphic shapes and movements.
The Sonic Fields installation played continuously for two weeks. Although certain sounds repeated, the composition of sounds where never the same. The footage above is edited together from one hour of slowly evolving sounds and visuals that have been condensed into an 8:30 video.
Sonic Fields is designed by Kate Sicchio, Michael Hersrud, and Simone Muscolino, and is produced by Sonic Jeel, a collaborative lab investigating sound, electronic music, and audiovisual media within the context of Qatar and the Gulf region.
Sound Design: Michael Hersrud & Simone Muscolino
Visual Coding: Kate Sicchio
Production: Sonic Jeel
This installation has been created with generous support from VCUarts Qatar Institute For Creative Research, Qatar Foundation, Liwan, and Qatar Museums.
