Wet Sounds presents SUBR

Friday, June 13 2025
Silence – 46 Essex Street
Guelph, Ontario

On Friday, June 13th, Musagetes’ Wet Sounds Series will host SUBR at Silence in Guelph for an artist talk and performance. Also joining SUBR will be Nick Dourado’s piano project ☉ (aka. gold/sun).

SUBR صبر is a deep listening music project by DJ and creative Lougien Dawoudiah. Through reconfigured music controllers and layered speakers, SUBR offers a study into Palestinian traditional sounds, modern productions, and field recordings. The immersive soundscapes are sonically framed with deep ambient tones that carry a series of altered Palestinian music, produced by deconstructing, filtering and examining its bare elements: drums, harmony, vocals, bass.

The name SUBR (صبر) is based on the Arabic word “Sabir” which means patience, forbearance, tolerance. The same word also means cactus 🌵: Thorny, resilient. Sometimes it flowers, sometimes it bears fruit.

☉ (aka. gold/sun) represents a sonical exposition of resonance and elastic potential in space using acoustic instruments, as a response to the commonness of manipulation and simulation. nick dourado speaks through the harmonic abacus, conceptualized as a grand piano, with the comfort of a mother tongue, paying special attention to the impermanent structures traversing through the environment. dourado, raised under russian exceptionalism within romantic classicism, has carried this tradition through robust study in embodiment, physical acoustics, spontaneous composition to present a contemporary music outside of stylism, eurocentricity, or denomination situated playfully and blissfully within the american musical tradition. dourado’s many-fingered approach has supported a myriad of special and important voice and can be heard on Aquakultre’s “Legacy”, “Fiver and the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition” and Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s “The Ones Ahead”.