SADA | صدى | סָדַא
Nour Darwish (Soprano) & Noam Helfer (Sound Artist and Experience Designer)

SADA (Echo) is a Palestinian–Israeli co-creation that moves through five languages—Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, and Italian—traversing layers of consciousness, memory, intimacy, and celebration. Combining voice, sound design, unconventional sampling, and organic beats, SADA creates an immersive sonic landscape where Palestinian folk songs, original compositions, and global repertoire converge.

Conceived as a living laboratory of “Sonar Activism,” the project explores how sound and artistic collaboration can open pathways toward connection in an increasingly fragmented world.

Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish, originally from the Galilee, has performed internationally across opera, Arabic music, and interdisciplinary performance. A Fulbright alumna trained in Tel Aviv and New York, she has appeared with leading orchestras and conductors, including Zubin Mehta. Her recent work focuses on contemporary Palestinian compositions that weave Arabic poetry with Western classical forms.

Noam Helfer is a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and sound architect whose work spans contemporary dance, theater, immersive installations, and experimental music. Through his practice of “Sonar Dramaturgy,” he creates environments that use sound to shape emotional and narrative experiences, developing projects that blur the boundaries between audience, performance, and space.

Together, Darwish and Helfer invite audiences into a shared sonic experience that imagines new possibilities for listening, presence, and coexistence.