Bio

Sara Dziri is a Belgian-Tunisian electronic artist, composer, DJ and performer whose practice moves between club culture, experimental sound, performance and her North African heritage. Rooted in Brussels’ underground electronic music scene, her work explores rhythm, trance and altered states as both sonic and embodied experiences.

Her first portal into music was DJing, drawn to the way rhythm, pressure and release can instinctively move bodies. What began as a desire to hear sounds that did not yet exist around her has developed into a multidisciplinary artistic language spanning production, composition, voice and performance.

In 2019, Dziri co-founded Not Your Techno, developing the platform into an influential force for a more intersectional, queer and POC-centred electronic music culture in Brussels. Alongside residencies at Fuse and Kiosk Radio and performances across clubs and festivals in Belgium and abroad, she established a distinctive position within Brussels’ electronic music landscape.

Her debut album Close to Home, released by Optimo Music in 2022, expanded her practice into composition and long-form sonic storytelling. In 2024, she conceived and premiered Black Hole at KANAL–Centre Pompidou, a multidisciplinary work bringing rave culture into dialogue with North African trance traditions through sound, choreography and light.

With Sacred Disorientations, Dziri enters a new chapter of her practice and launches SILT, an artist-led label for music inhabiting the space between listening and dancefloor. Developed through research and encounters across Brussels, Tunis and Cairo, the EP explores trance, ritual and altered states through polyrhythm, voice, repetition and shifting intensities.

Selected highlights

Festivals & clubs
WHOLE Festival — Ferropolis
Paradise City Festival — Belgium
Nuits Sonores — Lyon
Listen Festival — Brussels
Play Label Open Air — Brussels
Sameheads — Berlin

Performance & arts institutions
KANAL–Centre Pompidou — Brussels
deSingel — Antwerp
KAAP / AMOK — Bruges

Club & radio residencies
Fuse — Brussels
Kiosk Radio — Brussels

Artistic residencies
L’Art Rue — Tunis
Goethe-Institut