SARA LEHAD

Sara Lehad is a music and philosophy artist-researcher. Born in 1995 in Algiers, she lives and works in Paris. Currently pursuing a research-creation PhD at the University of Paris 8 (Musidanse/C.ET.I) under the co-supervision of musicologist Makis Solomos and philosopher Ninon Grangé, she is also a graduate of the Pantin departmental conservatory in electroacoustic composition.

Her research, straddling the philosophies of difference, particularly the deconstruction movement, aims to deconstruct her own practice by focusing on the sonic heritage, which she approaches both as a compositional sound and as a listening spectrum. She also works in this direction, building and performing a table feedback system, whose sonic reactions ranging from screams to near silence serve as an allegory for a certain intersectional condition. She has received commissions from Radiophrenia (Scotland), Radiosygma (Russia), Radio Alhara (West Bank-Palestine), and Lyl Radio (France), and has performed at venues such as Les Instants Chavirés (Montreuil), Data (Marseille), as well as in collectives like Non_Jazz, Doxa Esta, Sport National, and computer-mathematics.

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Sara Lehad’s performances involve interacting with the feedback produced by inserting the output of a mixing desk back into its input. This signal passes through a series of effect pedals and encounters voice recordings stored in a granular sampler, thereby disturbing the initial audio signal. An embodied listening is implemented, invoking the body in a ventriloquial relationship with the machine.