Muqata'a

Muqata’a is an electronic musician and producer based in Ramallah, Palestine. His work combines sampled material, field recordings, synths, and fragments from radio into layered compositions driven by unstable rhythms and shifting tonal structures.

A founding member of the Ramallah Underground Collective (2002–2009), he is also part of the sound and image performance group Tashweesh alongside Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. His solo albums include Hayawan Nateq (2013), La Lisana Lah (2017), Dubt Al-Ghubar (2017), Inkanakuntu (2018), and Kamil Manqus (2021).

His live sets are immersive and confrontational, layering textures, rattling bass, and momentary torrents of broken beats that disrupt and destabilize. His work explores memory, fragmentation, and transformation through sound.

Muqata'a will present a special live set inside Kraftcentralen that incorporates recordings of poetry by Gaza poet Raed Shniowrah. The performance is part of this year's Lyrik i samklang: Palestine-Lebanon-Sweden, exploring the relation between voices and expression from Palestine, Lebanon and the Palestinian and Lebanese diaspora.

Lyrik i samklang: Palestine-Lebanon-Sweden is presented with support from the Swedish Arts Council and Svenska Akademien.