Resistansound is a participatory platform created to explore sound and experimental music as tools of cultural resistance and civic awareness. The initiative grows out of AVANT Festival’s ongoing commitment to addressing social justice, solidarity and geopolitical issues through avant-garde music and artistic experimentation. Its goal is to make sound a medium for empathy, awareness and democratic dialogue. Building on the festival’s mission and concrete actions to promote active citizenship through culture, and drawing inspiration from influential thinkers such as Mark Fisher, Toni Morrison and Steve Goodman, Resistansound aims to create a recurring space where artists, citizens and cultural operators can reflect on warfare, freedom of expression, technocracy and silenced voices through experimental, community-based experiences. The first edition will feature two international artists whose practices explore conflict through sound. Christina Hazboun will present a soundwalk based on field recordings from Bethlehem and the West Bank, while Lebanese musician Mohamed Choucair will perform a concert built on recordings of warplanes and the sonic landscape of conflict in Lebanon.