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 working with sound, dance, and hybrid performance. She is Syrian and Palestinian, engaged in the world as such. Their solo approaches have expanded dynamically through their collaborative performance practices, creating a new hybrid composite of place and material at each iteration. Performance highlights include CultureHub Re-Fest, The Stone, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arab.AMP, and Radio Alhara.
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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) |
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Other highlights// 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 Performance w. UNRWA Gather for Gaza Campaign |