Palestinian Sound Archive

The MACRO's Audio Room hosts the Palestinian Sound Archive, a sound research project founded in 2020 by Mo'Min Swaitat, an artist, researcher, actor, musician and filmmaker based in London, which collects, preserves and makes accessible again music, voices and recordings from Palestine. Distributed by the record label Majazz Project, it re-releases cassettes and vinyl records dating from a period spanning the 1960s to the 1990s. Swaitat digitises traditional music with the aim of preserving and making this musical heritage known to new generations, in its original version or remixed by contemporary DJs, artists and musicians. The project at the MACRO offers a journey through Palestinian culture, from traditional celebrations to festivities, from recordings of everyday life to testimonies linked to revolutionary movements. Among disco music, funk, spoken word, orchestral tracks and Bedouin psychedelic music, the pieces convey memories of places and communities, addressing themes such as uprooting, resistance and cultural erasure.