Interzone presents: Radwan Ghazi Moumneh + Emna Mâaref, Meesh Sara Fradkin + Stuart Jackson, Dumb Chamber, Bénédicte
Église Saint-Denis, Saturday, September 20 at 07:30 PM EDT
Interzone Editions presents: 'Bunny’s apartment, the beach', the album launch
–> Meesh Sara Fradkin + Stuart W. Jackson
Meesh Sara Fradkin is a writer and artist working with sound, text and media in New York City and Montreal. Her work has been presented by The Center for Performance Research, Beall Center for Art + Technology, Murmurs Gallery and Leonardo/MIT. Publications include Leonardo, Syllabus Project, and (forthcoming) Parapraxis. Meesh has also presented work as a collaborator at WordHack, CuteLab, Close Up NYC, La Sala Rossa, among others. Meesh is a doctoral candidate in music at McGill University and a visiting scholar at NYU's Center for Disability Studies.
Stuart Jackson is a percussionist and uilleann piper from Virginia. Like most interpreters of new music, he has premiered many works from living composers, but specializes in rethinking approaches to the realization of existing works for percussion from the 20th century and reviving those that have been lost or forgotten. He has performed in spaces such as the King’s Theatre, Pioneer Works, Roulette, Wesleyan University, the Irish Historical Society, Cummings Art Center, SBC Gallery, Salle Claude Champagne, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, and many others.
He is currently pursuing a doctorate in percussion performance at McGill University, where he has received a Tomlinson fellowship and an FRQSC award for his research on percussion works by Pierre Boulez and David Tudor. He is currently a student of Fabrice Marandola.
'Bunny's apartment, the beach' will be out on Interzone Editions on September 20, 2025/ https://msfmsf.bandcamp.com/album/bunnys-apartment-the-beach
–> Radwan Ghazi Moumneh + Emna Maâref
Radwan Ghazi Moumneh is a Lebanese-Canadian producer/musician based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. He melds Arabic song traditions with modern deployments of electronics and synthesis, while utilizing the traditional folkloric disciplines – the buzuk (Lebanese luth) and Arabic modal singing. In the early 2010s, he founded the audiovisual duo Jerusalem In My Heart (JIMH). Radwan Ghazi Moumneh’s unique musical sensibility also sprawls outward. As a prolific producer and co-owner of the Hotel2Tango studio, he has recorded and produced a long list of albums, by Mashrou’ Leila, Silver Mt Zion, Big Brave, Marie Davidson, Tim Hecker, Lou Doillon, SUUNS, Fly Pan Am, and the Coin Coin series by Matana Roberts, to name just a few. Overall, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh has created a body of work that challenges and re-imagines Arabic contemporary music. Outside of JIMH, he has contributed to several collaborative recordings on various other imprints. He is now working on his first solo album.
Emna Maâref is a Montreal-based, Tunisian multidisciplinary musician and composer whose genre-fluid sound blends experimental, ambient, bass music, and deconstructed electronics. In her solo performances, she fuses the tones of her oud playing with electronic textures to guide listeners through open-ended journeys—transforming madness, love, and memory into deeply personal sound. As a film score composer, she created the soundtracks for I’ve Known Rivers, an experimental documentary that received a Special Mention at the Gabès Cinéma Fen Festival in 2023, and The Color of Phosphate that won Best Tunisian Documentary at the Carthage Film Festival in 2024.
–> Dumb Chamber
Better known as one of the Salon Privé members, Dumb Chamber’s project is at the intersection of neo-classical, new age, ambient and leftfield music. His production retains influences from 80’s neo-classical greatests (Nyman, Mertens, Cunningham) and Coil. Free of the fidelity and realistic pretenses of sampling, his sequenced and revamped sampling techniques carry an air of avant-garde and a flair of elegance; Dumb Chamber breathes in much-needed novelty in the New Age sonic landscape.
–> Bénédicte
Bénédicte is the musical project of Montreal-based producer and sound artist Maxime Gordon. In her music she carefully crafts and combines soaring synths, distorted field-recordings and glittering vocal samples to explore moments of introspection and feeling. She has performed at venues and festivals across North America and Europe such as Mutek (Montreal), Eastern Bloc (Montreal), Glory Affairs (Prague) and OIIOIOOI (Stadt Wehlen).
In 2021 she released the EP When It Binds on Blueberry Records. When It Binds is a collection of songs that serves as Bénédicte’s personal exploration of what happens after an emotional connection is established with someone.
September 20th at Église Saint-Denis
(454A avenue Laurier E)
Doors at 7:30PM
~ 22$ online (link in bio)
~ 27$ at the door
Artwork by Juliette Dupont Duchesne (instagram: @julietteklodl)
https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/interzone-presents-radwan-ghazi-moumneh-emna-maaref-meesh-sara-fradkin-stuart-jackson-dumb-chamber-benedicte
