Sirr al-’Asrâr (Arabic for “The Secret of Secrets”) is the joint project of Skander Ben Yahia, Zohra Mrad and Skander Jaïbi. Raised in Tunisia, they are now based in Paris, Luxembourg and Amsterdam.
Sirr al-’Asrâr’s new live set emerges as an intertwined dialogue about shared memory and experience through abstraction and noise. This dialogue is materialised by their technical setup that allows each audiovisual element to be iteratively and erratically captured, processed and displayed, as a physical manifestation of collective memory. Recollections that are neither singular nor stable, but rather formed through entanglement, alteration and exchange.
Through densely layered improvisations, resulting in slowly evolving worlds, elements dissolve into audiovisual textures and distortions, evoking the fragility of what is remembered and the violence of what is forgotten. More broadly, the performance marks the continuation of Sirr al-’Asrâr’s inquiry into belonging and identity, the collective unconscious, and how shared histories (re)surface, fragment, and reconstitute themselves through sound and image.
Zohra Mrad
Zohra Mrad is a Tunisian and Luxembourgish multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Luxembourg. They create interactive, generative and immersive experiences. Their work invites a dialog between the human experience and technology, encouraging the public to go from an observer to an actor/creator of the piece.
Their approach is collaborative, circular and inclusive. Their artworks are often inspired and linked to kinaesthesia, healing, chaos and the experimental and/or extreme music scene. They question how those experiences can help us live/survive the violence of the world around us.
They are a co-founder of the VIVID ECHOES artistic residencies in Luxembourg, the eco-poetry journal foehn and collectives like Sirr al-’Asrâr, Zolei and B‑Saad, and are an active member of Mooja and Grave Erreur.
They have performed and exhibited online, in Europe (Germany, Spain, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands), in the United Kingdom and in Tunisia.
Skander Ben Yahia
Skander Ben Yahia is a musician and an innovation project manager based in Paris. He primarily works on electronic music production and performances. Skander’s passion for music has led to diverse and impactful projects, from codirecting collectives and creating an album and several EPs to the development of live performances, through which he has cultivated a rich and dynamic musical landscape.
Skander is currently involved in several artistic initiatives. He’s collaborating with Alinna Tikhonova, with whom he explores distinct audio and visual narratives through audiovisual installations. His second album under his alias Near Stoic is set to be released in January 2026. Additionally, he joined Uncloud where he helped in launching Uncloud Editions, a label that releases exploratory audiovisual works and supporting multidisciplinary creations.
Skander Jaïbi
Skander Jaïbi a Tunisian and Dutch composer, audiovisual artist, curator and science educator, currently based in Amsterdam. He obtained his MSc degree from the University of Utrecht in the philosophy of (quantum) physics in 2020 and is one of the founders and artistic directors of Uncloud festival since 2016.
As an artist, his medium of choice is often sound. The techniques used range from a strong focus on the use of field recordings and archival material to creating compositions that may or may not integrate such recordings. Alongside his autonomous practice, he has co-created on various occasions and has collaborated on, among others, dance pieces, films and art installations. His interests are various and are often linked to, but not restricted by, his biculturality and his background in physics. He is a strong proponent of the open-source and open-access stance.
