Industrial / Hybrid Trance / Improvised Electronics

About

Origin LB-CH
Current Base Beirut - LB
Genre Industrial / Hybrid Trance / Improvised Electronics
Instruments Custom-built instruments, vocals, drum machine, electronics
Languages Multilingual (Arabic, French, English)
Label Affiliations Blau Blau Records, Moli Del Tro, Kashual Plastik
Artistic Affiliations Frequent defect collective, The mad laboratory of anti matter, Kaleidoscope of nothingness

Biography

NÂR is a Lebanese multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer based in Beirut. Constantly in metamorphosis, she crafts raw, immersive experiences using analog gear, voice, and found objects. Abrasive and hypnotic, her performances are live experiments constructed from scratch—anchored in repetition and trance.

Her sound draws from a vast spectrum of influences: Middle Eastern microtonality, North African trance traditions, industrial music, and avant-garde electronic forms. In 2021, NÂR created a custom instrument from repurposed clocks and bells, which injected even more grit and physicality into her sonic rituals.

She describes her practice as: "A succession of sacred mistakes and a cult to the unknown."

Featured Press

"Who is NÂR? A powerful, mystical figure of contemporary sonic expression..."
— Les Inrockuptibles, Philippe Azoury
"A dark sun with copper contours, vibrating in amniotic echoes—her body becomes sound."
— Dejan Gacond - Kaleidoscope of Nothingness, 2020

Performance Highlights

NÂR has performed at prestigious venues and festivals across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, including:

2023

March 2023
Venue Variations Festival - Stereolux
Nantes, France
April 2023
Venue STRP Festival
Eindhoven, Netherlands
October 6, 2023
Venue Uncloud Festival
Utrecht, Netherlands

2024

May 3, 2024
Venue Forest Limit
Tokyo, Japan
May 17, 2024
Venue Metro
Kyoto, Japan
December 29, 2023
Venue Presentation of the piece SILENCIO - 48
composed by NÂR x Contrechamps ensemble - La comédie - Geneva, Switzerland

2025

February 5, 2025
Venue Lieu Dit for Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
Clermont-Ferrand, France
April 2025
Venue Irtijal Festival 25th Edition
Beirut, Lebanon

Past Shows

2025 -

  • 31.01/08.02 - Jury Labo at 47th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
  • 05.02 - Performance - Lieu Dit for Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
  • 06.02 - Rataplan - for Sound in Motion - Antwerp - BE
  • 07.02 - RecyclArt - Brussels - BE
  • 14.02 - Kapitel - Bern - CH
  • 15.02/20.02 - Residency MigrArt - Zürich - CH
  • 21.02 - Tour Vagabonde - fribourg - CH
  • 22.02 - Kunstraum Aarau - CH
  • 23.02 - Prozess - bern - CH
  • 26.02 - Gannet - Basel - CH
  • 27.02 - l'Usine - Geneva - CH
  • 28.02 - l'usine - geneva - CH
  • 01.03 - Gessnerallee - Zürich - CH
  • 05.04 - Irtijal Festival 25th Edition - Beirut - LB
  • 10.04 - Paper planes & Heavy hearts exhibition - Zico House - Beirut - LB

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Discography

Upcoming

Music The Mad Laboratory of Anti-Matter
Moli Del Tro Records
October 2025

New Album

Music NÂR
Moli Del Tro Records
TBC

Solo Album

Past Releases

Music What We Talk About
Blau Blau Records

Solo Album

Music NÂR - الثائرة مريم
ENOUGH! by various artists

Music Ensel-ham
Osàre Editions

Music The call of now
off Accidental Journey- Kashual plastik Records

Music Ma tensa
off Accidental Journey- Kashual plastik Records

Music Tyreen
off Accidental Journey- Kashual plastik Records

Music Baba Mimoun-NÂR x June AS
Rocket recordings

Music NÂR
Sonosynthesis Album
Listen

Media

Videos

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NÂR + AKRAM HAJJ
Frequent Defect
MorphineXBeirut
YouTube (Click to open)
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The Mad Laboratory of Anti-Matter
LIVE at CLUB METRO
Kuwadate
YouTube (Click to open)
Nâr - SILENCIO 48
Ensemble Contrechamps

Audio

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Frequent Defect live set
SoundCloud (Click to listen)