Artist-Singer-Composer-Mentor
Ilhem is a vocalist, composer, and sound artist whose work centers on the human voice.
Deeply involved in music since childhood, her voice has always been her primary instrument and the source of a lifelong exploration. Born in France to a multicultural family with Algerian, German, French, and Hungarian roots, her background informs a sustained sensitivity to identity, ancestry, and belonging.
Initially rooted in jazz, her artistic language expanded through years of collaboration and involvement in multicultural and experimental music contexts, including over fifteen years within Berlin’s scene. Over time, she moved beyond conventional forms of composition and vocal performance, developing a practice in which the voice is treated as a vessel shaped by memory, heritage, and unspoken emotions.
Her studies in polyphony at the Philharmonie de Paris, alongside other forms of sound training, refined her attention to resonance, listening, and the cultural role of the voice. These elements converge in compositions built from layered vocals, polyphonic structures, field recordings, and spatial sound. Her work engages themes of origin, displacement, and identity, approaching the voice as both personal and collective, intimate and universal.
A two-time TEDx artist and speaker, Ilhem has presented her work internationally in venues, institutions, and festivals including the Berlin Philharmonie, Mutek Mexico, Waking Life Festival, Resolute New York, and most recently TEDxWomen Lausanne.
Her collaborations span artists such as Roedelius, Mathew Jonson, Masomenos, Bokar Cissokho, Romain Azzaro, Mike Shannon, Magda, Natalia Escobar, and Daniela Huerta.
In 2024, she became the first vocalist in residence at MONOM Studio Berlin, where she created NASILU, a vocal-only piece exploring exile, human memory, and ancestral echoes, released in 2025 during the Audio Immersive Spatial Festival at Berlin’s Funkhaus.
Ilhem continues to expand her solo performance practice while developing multidisciplinary collaborations that explore the voice as a bridge between cultural memory, sound, and contemporary experience.
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