Sukitoa o Namau is a Moroccan experimental sound artist and researcher. Her background is rooted into contemporary dance, performing arts and visual arts. On her academic path in Performing Arts and Theater Studies, she centered her felds of study on the relations existing between Dance and Image in contemporary dance
works.

In 2012, she created her dance company UCHRONIE and broadened her research to the subject of Choreographical Thresholds and to a possible dance below and beyond the dancing body. She incorporated sound to her practice while directing a dance piece, Des feurs pour Schrödinger, for which she composed and performed a soundtrack.

From then on, she has been using sound as a medium to deepen her refection about Thresholds through field recordings, processed sounds and electronics.

In 2017, she released her debut EP Nari and has been chosen as a featured artist for Taqsim, a platform that enables musicians and producers from the MENA region to communicate through sound, improvisation and collaboration, in cooperation with Mideast Tunes. She worked as a field recordist, content creator and project manager for this borderless sound archive.
The same year, she toured the UK after being invited by HCMF-Huddersfeld contemporary music festival. Her live act is built upon a collection of field recordings, textures, processed sounds & rhythms, inspired by the friction of audio snapshots and the way they can assemble, resonate, break down, mutate, confront and resist each other.

Sukitoa o Namau calls upon the incorporeal presence of the sounds she captured and lets them reveal or refect images, experiences and questions at the center of her research. At the core of her work lies the idea of thresholds and how a cluster of fragments can morph into sonic matter, can open up spaces (and meanings) and operate on several levels of perception.

From one live tour to the next, her performance comes alive as an open strucure revisiting pieces from her debut EP Nari and blending new material and experimentations into it. Nari I was presented in several venues in Portugal (Sonoscopia / Porto, Zaratan | Arte Contemporânea / Lisbon, Salão Brazil / Coimbra, Damas / Lisbon,...). Nari II was presented during her UK Tour and premiered at HCMF – Huddersfeld Contemporary Music Festival. Nari III was performed for the first time in Germany at the Heroines of Sound Festival in July 2019.

She's currently organizing a new tour and working on a new album.

Sukitoa o Namau – Nari EP
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