Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, is a sound artist and experimental ambient musician, raised in Nairobi, Kenya and currently based in Berlin. Across numerous releases, concerts and sonic research projects over the past decade or so he has built a distinctive practice of expanded listening, opening a space to consider and reflect on auditory environments beyond the norm. His work crisscrosses field recording, improvisation, noise, ambient, machine learning, radio art and expansive hypnotic drones and he’s earned international acclaim for performances in far-flung locales as well as his ambient recordings.

‘A Forbidden Distance’ brings together the distinct artistic voices of Iranian-Canadian brothers Mohammad and Mehdi of Saint Abdullah, Irish sound designer, musician and DJ Ian McDonnell (Eomac), and London-based Italo-Australian visual artist Rebecca Salvadori, whose film and video portraits of moments, people, and environments draw from her deep-rooted cinematic research within London’s underground music ecosystems. A powerful and reflexive live audiovisual collaboration, it weaves personal, artistic and collective experiences to explore enduring threads of human connection within conditions of displacement and fragmentation.

YUNIS is an Egyptian artist whose music weaves Afro-Arab rhythms, trance structures, and electronic maximalism into a sonic pilgrimage, invoking collective memory and transformation. His latest performance ‘Opera for 1000 Crows’ intertwines live electronics, cello, and voice, and is rooted in a funeral dance ritual from Upper Egypt and Delta villages.

Part of Bristol New Music 2026

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