Rami Harrabi channels a profound fascination with Arabic and North African instruments and traditions into VIRUS2020, an intimate solo exploration of sound’s porous borders between science and ceremony. Presently exploring microtonality and multiphonic properties of traditional North African double‑reed instruments, Harrabi reimagines their timbres through custom-built DIY electronics and sonic bricolage, informing both composition and installation.

His discography unfolds as a gradual descent into ritual-infused terrain: self-releasing I Don’t Know in 2021 and SECT in 2022 before refining his aural identity with KHUSHUE in 2023. Here, handcrafted double-reed winds entwine with analogue-digital devices and drones. With his latest A FROG, A GUN AND A SAD MAN, he invokes the frog goddess Heket to traverse themes of sorrow, violence, and fragile hope through electroacoustic noise, processed traditional instruments, and fragments of haunting field recordings.

Outside the studio, Harrabi’s distinctive sound installations break the grid of listening, A/V collaborations unfurling his aesthetics into space and image. Within improvisational trio RIG, together with Ismail Lassoued and Ghassen Ben Brahim, raw first-take energy is yanked from the ether, dissolving boundaries between poetic act and performative immediacy: liminal soundscapes that fuse hermetic and industrial textures.