photo by isaac kopecky

The duo of King + Tawil
has been in action since 2020.

John King is a composer, violist, guitarist, curator, and activist. His musical output focuses on spatialized chamber and large-scale concert music as well as chance-determined and spontaneously generated sonic structures.

Leyya Mona Tawil is an artist and cultural activist operating internationally. She works in voice, electronics, and hybrid performance practices. She is Syrian and Palestinian, engaged in the world as such.

Performance highlights include Striped Light (LIC). CultureHub Re-Fest (NYC), The Stone, Philadelphia Museum of Art w. Philadanco, AMP Live at Indexical (Santa Cruz), and Radio Alhara (Palestine). They are also included on Amplify Palestine's BDS Mixtape Volume 3. Their individual sound palettes weave dynamically in real time, creating a new hybrid composite of place and material at each iteration.​

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Amplify Palestine releases Unboundable as we mark twenty years since the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions went global; as Gaza’s people continue to endure genocidal siege, bombs, famine and fire; and as repression of Palestine solidarity rapidly escalates. Unboundable gathers over 20 celebrated musicians to engage this question on a double album including
​King + Tawil's 'Love Song for a Free Palestine'

Amplify Palestine website Vol. 3 page 

PRESS –
Scene Noise (7.11)
Crack Magazine IG post (7.11) & playlist* 
Mixmag Asia​ (7.10) 
The New Arab (7.10)

more about King

More about Leyya

contact:  [email protected]

Other highlights//

2025
AMP Live @ Indexical (Santa Cruz CA)
AMP Gathering '25 at TAC (Oakland CA)

2024 Culture Hub Re-Fest
- a durational festival with global participation.
“Crystal strings” / Love songs for a Free Palestine
CultureHub NYC New York, United States
John King (US),  Leyya Mona Tawil  (US/PAL/SY), Myriam Nana Henne-Adda (SP), Mercedes Klausner Roubaix (FR)

2022 Philadelphia Art Museum
Live music for exhibition Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, featuring the Philadelphia Dance Company (PhilaDanco) performing excerpts from dances premiered during Jasper Johns’s time as the Artistic Advisor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company 

2020 Gather for Gaza
Livestream Set for UNRWA Gather for Gaza Campaign