ABOUT

Basel Naouri is an architect, sound artist and spatial media scenographer based in Berlin, with an MA degree in Media Spaces. He has engaged in a number of theoretical and practical projects in the fields of spatial sound, media architecture and immersive spaces, and is currently pursuing further research in the cross-section between spatial sound and AR/VR architectural experiences.

His work is artistic-scientific, and focused on the phenomenological and philosophical relationship between sound, space and aesthetics. Basel collaborates with architecture and design firms, museums, musicians, visual artists, and movie-makers, to create innovative and thought provoking projects, displaying his work in international design events and performances around the world.

Most recently, and along his work as a lecturer at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE-A&D), in the Master‘s programme New Media Design / Media Spaces, Basel is the director of TimeLab, a temporary immersive media environments lab that focuses on researching spatial sound, VR, projection mapping and various augmentation technologies through the lens of Transmedia Design.

Since 2020, Basel has turned his focus on creating spatial sound narratives such as his work with recordat in Satellarium III, an audiovisual event presented in an open urban space in Berlin. He also collaborated on designing the sound, concept and scenography of Copula, a multi-sensory installation on temporal constructs of ancient Egyptian times. Prior to that, he presented his latest research project Quantasonics, a collective adaptation of his MA. thesis project Synchresis, which stems from the cross-section between the field of spatial sound, architectural environments and active listening to micro-environments. Previously, he was commissioned to represent Jordan at Dubai Design Week 2018 with the audiovisual spatial sound installation Duwar. Basel's interactive sound installation Tonal Texture was on display at Venice Design 2018 in conjunction with the Venice Biennale 2018. In 2017, Basel’s interactive immersive exhbition “Sounds of Design” was commissioned as part of Amman Design Week (ADW). Basel is also an avid furniture and interior designer and has worked primarily with reclaimed materials from across Jordan which he premiered in his first solo exhibition 432 Hz. Much of Basel’s design work is rooted in his fascination with the sound and his ever-growing passion of exploring its connection to our physical environment, bodies and senses. His background as a multi-instrumentalist and electronic music producer serves as a lens in which he decodes other disciplines. An example of this is his collaboration with Architect Ammar Khammash on Desert Soundscapes, a research project and exhibition on the cross-section between geology, architecture, music theory, interactivity and design.

In Jordan, Basel held the position of Head of Exhibition Design at the Jordan Children’s Museum, where he designed Jordan’s first standalone museum exhibition on biodiversity. Prior to that, he was Head Furniture Designer at the furniture studio Shiraz Stores and an Architect with Khammash Architects and Dar Al Omran Architects. He is a co-founding member of the electronic music duo Arabs with Synthesizers and electro-acoustic experimental band Zaed Naes. Most recently, he joined Jordanian band El Morabba3 as their producer, synth and trumpet player, and he’s now co-leading the experimental music platform recordat.