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Joel Cahen (Hebrew: יווֹאֵל כהן‎; born in Jerusalem, Israel), a London-based curator, photographer, filmmaker and sound artist.

Was born in Israel and came to the UK in the mid 1990s to study sound engineering. In the late 1990s he worked as a sound technician at a number of venues throughout London. Since 2001 he has worked as sound designer and composer on a number of installations, films, theatre and dance productions. He collaborated with video artist Julian Ronnefeldt and performance artist Lennie Lee and with members of The Black Poodle at Tate Britain in 2003 to considerable critical acclaim. As an experimental film maker, one of his films "Busbug" was awarded several awards including first prize at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2005 as part of the annual Halloween Film festival as well as best short film at Shortcuts 2005 and has been shown at numerous film festivals throughout Europe.

He is a curator organising a series of experimental art and music events in London since 2002 including 'Evil Art' at the 291 Gallery, and 'The Wormhole Saloon' at The Whitechapel Gallery. With Wajid Yaseen he started Scrap Club in 2007, a public destructivist activity. In 2008 he created Wet Sounds, an underwater sound art gallery which tours swimming pools worldwide and which features live sound performances by the likes of Nurse With Wound, Francisco Lopez and Leafcutter john among others. Joel regularly hosts a show on Resonance fm in London called SoundSoup where he DJs mashups and abstract sound narratives.