NEXT 2025 – Day 4: Adriana Morn + Bint Mbareh

Saturday evening NEXT 2025: 26th Advanced Music Festival in Klarisky with sound artists Adriana Morn and Bint Mbareh.

Music producer Adriana Morn (Adriána Vančová, also known as timmi) works independently, but also in collaborations. He draws some of the foundations of his work from sacred music, which inspires him and transforms it into modified vocal or keyboard motifs. For her, music is a mystical practice. She uses her layered voice rooted in classical singing, which she transforms into various harmonies and microtonal structures. Other important instruments are synthesizers and other keyboard instruments – her first releases feature dense drone surfaces interspersed with noise, piano, spoken word and vocals. She is inspired by the overlaps of dirty, less concrete or abstract elements with crystalline synthesizer sounds, field recordings or piano. Her debut album Theosis (2023) was released on the labels Stoned to Death and Řehole. Other music appeared on several compilations – most recently on the album Prah released by the Slovakian label Warm Winters.

Through the research of Palestinian songs to summon rain, sound artist Bint Mbareh revives vocal traditions that historically served to summon rain, build a relationship with the land and collectively share resources. Her performance shows how this tradition is still relevant and serves as a living force in the conditions of ongoing Israeli settler colonialism.