Palestinian Sound Archive
Meetup & Listening Session
11 June 2026 – 7pm-9pm
Free – Register now
With Karma Abudagga (Artist and Researcher, Palestinian Sound Archive, DE)
Where: Stadtwerkstatt - how to find
11 Karl-Liebknecht-Straße
Berlin, BE, 10178
Max 70 Participants.
Majazz Project is a Palestinian-led record label and research platform. Over several years, Mo’min Swaitat amassed an archive of rare tapes and vinyl from Palestine and beyond, spanning field recordings of Bedouin weddings to revolutionary tracks and synth-heavy 80s funk and jazz.
What began as a plan to reissue Bedouin Palestinian music quickly evolved into something more significant. The Palestinian Sound Archive is a celebration of music, spoken word, and album artwork from historic Palestine, spanning field recordings of Bedouin weddings to revolutionary tracks and synth-heavy 80s funk and jazz. By re-releasing music and sound recordings, through club nights and radio sets, through audio-visual installations, live performances and storytelling sessions which situate the music in their cultural, social and political contexts, the ethos of the Palestinian Sound Archive is to preserve by sharing. Today, the Archive is comprised of and supported by freelance visual and sound artists, musicians, DJs, curators, organisers and researchers, without whom the work would not be possible.
Check out Majazz Project / Palestinian Sound Archive
Playlists, videos and more on their website, Bandcamp, YouTube, NTS Radio, Instagram.
Meetup Programme
Karma Abudagga invites the participants to a listening session that unfolds as a shared, embodied encounter with sound. Here, listening is not passive but felt, moving through the body, stirring memory, and opening quiet spaces of attention.
Together, we will explore listening as an embodied practice. Drawing from the Palestinian Sound Archive, Karma gathers fragments of voice and rhythm, spoken word, field recordings, and poetry, tracing lives, landscapes, and histories. Each piece lingers, carrying echoes that stretch beyond the moment of hearing. She brings with her a surprise; unseen footage of the Palestinian Sound Archive and its story, so this one is not to be missed.
We will slow down and listen closely, attuning to the textures, silences, and resonances that emerge. In this space, sound becomes a vessel for memory and imagination, a way of sensing what endures and what shifts. Sound reveals itself not just as a force that bridges generations, but a site of active resistance to colonial erasure.
This session is an invitation to dwell within sound, to listen with care, with presence, and with one another.
Karma Abudagga
Artist and Researcher, Palestinian Sound Archive, DE
Karma Abudagga is a Palestinian artist and researcher currently focusing on seed commoning and acts of reclamation as future-making praxis. Cofounder of Inbetween Collective and an organising member of the Palestinian Sound Archive, she explores decolonial storytelling through different mediums. Her go-to mediums are sound, whether it is through intimate listening sessions percussive-heavy breaks on the dancefloor, and the written word, whether it be a poem, an essay, or a piece of prose.
Funded by:
Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt (Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion), The Reva and David Logan Foundation, Re-Imagine Europe (Co-funded by the European Union).
Disruption Network Lab is part of New Perspectives for Action (2023-2027). A project by Re-Imagine Europe, a collaboration between Paradiso and Sonic Acts (NL), Elevate Festival (Austria), A4 (SK), INA GRM (FR), Borealis (NO), KONTEJNER (HR), RUPERT (LT), Semibreve (PT), Parco d’Arte Vivente (IT), Disruption Network Lab (DE), BEK (NO), Kontrapunkt (MK) and Radio Web MACBA (ES). Co-funded by the European Union.