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Interview on 15questions.net

  Gilles Aubry discusses his sound and music works on 15 questions.net. https://15questions.net/interview/gilles-aubry-about-magic-sounds/page-1/

New Album L’Makina on Corvo Records

  Gilles Aubry’s new album L’Makina is a haunting soundscape that combines AI-generated sound textures with modular synths. Structured in two parts, the piece explores the spectral possibilities of a virtual sound model developed using a machine learning algorithm, in collaboration with Moroccan musicians Ali Faiq and Idr Basrou. The title, L’Makina, references a 1930s […]

New LP/Digital Record on Antibody

LP and digital pre-order here: https://antibodylabel.bandcamp.com/album/rbia-harsha-cinta RBIA HARSHA CINTA is a dark experimental reworking of Aubry’s recent film on seaweed and pollution in Morocco (Atlantic Ragagar 2022). The film’s dreadful atmosphere of environmental devastation is transposed into a haunting soundscape of analog textures and naked rhythms. With its title referring to endangered seaweed species, Rbia […]

Views of Notes from below at Acud Berlin

Notes from Below 11.5 – 10.6 2023 Notes from Below brings together the works of artists and musicians whose research, poetics, and discursive practices are attuned to sounding out and listening in. The exhibition features the work of Gilles Aubry, Keli Safia Maksud, Sara Ouhaddou and Simnikiwe Buhlungu, which can be thought of as creative […]

Sawt, Bodies, Species as Online Special on Norient.com

SAWT, BODIES, SPECIES: SONIC PLURALISM IN MOROCCO now available as Norient Online Special featuring the six chapters of the book, along with a number of collaborative audio and video essays, images, quotes, and reviews Drawing on critical sound studies, ethnographic research, and artistic practice, Gilles Aubry’s book «Sawt, Bodies, Species» offers multivoiced narratives about acoustic […]

Sawt, Bodies, Species – New book available on adocs Press

In Sawt, Bodies, Species, Gilles Aubry offers an account on sonic pluralism in Morocco across a wide domain of activities, including archives, music, art, healing, and ecology. Sawt, in Arabic, literally means sound and voice. Sound in Morocco thus intimately relates to the body; it never quite corresponds with its modern Western counterpart as a […]

Interview for OTO Museum about The Whistle

VACUT Group – What’s behind the sound installation the Whistle? Conversation with Swiss artist, musician and researcher Gilles Aubry, Swiss vocalist and musician Sabina Leone And Francesca Checcerini, curator and co founder of OTO Museum, moderated by performer and member of curatorial collective Zaira Oram Chloe Dallolio . https://www.instagram.com/tv/ClUUqdMoPn1/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D  

Video interview with Gilles Aubry on sound artistic research

Interview part of the series “la investigación creadora” on creative, innovative and artistic research methodologies, a project by Anne Huffschmidt for the Latin American Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin. With: Gilles Aubry, Ernst Karel, Kathrin Wildner and Maria Luz Sanchez. Access the video here: https://vimeo.com/694899331 A new series by TrAndes. “La investigación creadora – […]

The Gramophone Effect on Radiophonic Space Mindmap

  The Gramophone Effect (Aubry & Millis 2016) now on Mindmap on Radio Art Mindmap invites you to explore the Universe of Radio Art by means of more than 200 works covering 100 years of radiophony. It has been devised in the context of the travelling exhibition Radiophonic Spaces.   https://radiophonic.space/html/mindmap.html

“Echoes of the Sakhra Encounters” on Radio Appartement 22

Full report in text, sound and image of the Sakhra Encounter, three days of public art interventions, exhibition, workshops and performances in Moulay Bouchta in North Morocco, organized by Abdljalil Saouli, Gilles Aubry and Carlos Perez Marin in March 2019. http://radioappartement22.com/2020/01/10/sakhra/

Mix for Sounds Unsaid on dublab.de

[mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/dublab_de/sounds-unsaid-gilles-aubry-january-2019/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1]   Mix for Sounds Unsaid curated by Laura Lot on dublab.de radio, now available as podcast. Made of field recordings from the Taghia gorges (South-Atlas,Morocco), including sung poetry, wedding songs, and feedback/radio improvisations made on location.   https://dublab.de/broadcast/sounds-unsaid-gilles-aubry-january-2019/?fbclid=IwAR2jYAbq-mg2tDvQI6RuCr_RLqTRDOHBnNFKNdiPL2qxMi-yjvs3koQK5Mo

Listening session on Cashmere Radio Berlin

Reviewing some Moroccan recordings with Matteo Spano, as a guest of his “Zafraan Caravan” show on Cashmere radio. [mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/CashmereRadio/zafraan-caravan-with-gilles-aubry-09062018/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1] https://cashmereradio.com/episode/zafraan-caravan-with-gilles-aubry/

The Gramophone Effect on mixcloud

Aubry & Millis’s sound piece curated by Documenta14 now on mixcloud. More info about the piece here [mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/radio_documenta_14_brazil/the-gramophone-effect-by-gilles-aubry-robert-millis-on-rádio-mec-fm-rio-de-janeiro/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1]  

July 2, 2017 – Live performance excerpt on Grauton, Radio Lora

Radio show by Karen Geyer on a 2-days workshop and presentation at the Peter Trachsel Archive in Küblis, Switzerland, in June 2017. The shows includes excerpts of live performances by Gilles Aubry, Karen Geyer, Marc Matter and Michael Hiltbrunner. Listen to the audio stream here: http://webradio.lora.ch:554/ramgen/lora/archiv/20170702.rm? or from the radio Laura website: http://www.lora.ch/sendungen/alle-sendungen?list=So21%3A+Grauton    

Installation view at Al Hamra Center, Lahore

“From A to Om”, installation by Gilles Aubry for the exhibition “Digging Deep, Crossing Far”, Al Hamra Art Center, Lahore, February 2017. Info about the work and video documentation here.        

European Sound Art Award 2016

                    Gilles Aubry is the winner of the European Sound Art Award 2016, awarded on 29.11.2016 by the Skulpturenmuseum Marl and German WDR3 Radio Station for his installation “A Space of Attunement (from oud to guitar to oud)“. Jury statement (in German): Die Installation „A Space […]

Live excerpt at Spektrum Berlin, CTM Vorspiel 2016

Gilles Aubry (field recording, feedback microphone) live excerpt at Spektrum Berlin, 21.1.2016 “Tribute to the Ear” The piece is made of recordings documenting sound check situations of Moroccan Amazigh (Berbere) musicians. One can hear instruments such as the bendir, the lutar, the rebab, the zamar, the qsbah, as well as voices and a synthesizer being […]