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November 7 2025 – L’Makina at Korsonor Festival Geneva

Gilles Aubry, Ahmed Essyad Subterranean Changes KorSonoR x Afrosonica Electronic music by Ahmed Essyad and Gilles Aubry Part I – Ahmed Essyad, Toubkal (1972, 11 min. 40 sec.) and Sultane (1973, 14 min.), electroacoustic works (composition and diffusion) Part II – Gilles Aubry, L’Makina (2023, 35 min.), live set (modular synthesiser and computer) Part III […]

October 24 2025 – Taghia, Matriphonie de la source on Radio Elsewhere

Radio Elsewheres (RE) is an online and terrestrial low-power digital radio art project conceptualized, produced, and curated by artists Velibor Božović and Steve Bates, along with art historian and curator Claudia Zini. Gilles Aubry’s Taghia, Matriphonie de la source on october 24, 10am https://www.radioelsewheres.net/

September 20 2025 – ULTIMA Festival Oslo

A sound, film, and music program on Morocco featuring composer Ahmed Essyad; artist-researcher Gilles Aubry; composer-artist Leila Bencharnia; flautist Yumi Murakami; curator-researcher Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa; Francesca Ceccherini (Zaira Oram); a Masahat-hosted reading circle; and DJ sets by Moe Chakiri, among others. Film screenings feature Trances (1981) on Nass El Ghiwane; Salam Godzilla (2019) and L’Makina (2023) […]

July 9th 2025 – Live at Bar Neun, Berlin

SUBTERRANEAN CHANGES A live music series highlighting the convergence of inherited and experimental music forms. BAR NEUN, Pücklerstr. 34, 10997 Berlin Door 20h, Start 21h. https://www.barneun.de/ Tuce Alba – Between Heights (Ney and electronics) Gilles Aubry – L’Makina (modular synth and computer) Laura Not (DJ) Between Heights, by Tuce Alba. A breath becomes vibration; vibration becomes […]

July 2nd 2025 – Record release at After Berlin

RELEASE: Gilles Aubry // L’Makina ————————————————– 02-07-2025 ————————————————– RELEASE Wednesday, 2 July 2025 doors open 19h music starts 20h (ca 33 minutes) artist Q&A drinks before and after L’Makina Gilles Aubry, 2025 https://corvorecords.bandcamp.com/album/gilles-aubry-lmakina After is looking forward to present a listening session of L’Makina by Gilles Aubry, recently released through Corvo Records (core 026). The […]

June 4th 2025 – ZKF Public Talk, Konstanz University

4. Juni 2025, 17:30, ZKF Public Talk: Sawt, Bodies, Species. Ecological Voices and Interspecies Performance by Dr. Gilles Aubry Bischofsvilla + online Orgnanized ZKF, Postdoc-Netzwerk im ZKF, Konstanz University, Germany Moderation: Dr. Maria Lidola Info: https://www.uni-konstanz.de/forschen/forschungseinrichtungen/zentrum-fuer-kulturwissenschaftliche-forschung/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen-detail/termin/zkf-public-talk-sawt-bodies-species-ecological-voices-and-interspecies-performance/ Following the publication of his book Sawt, Bodies, Species (adocs 2023), Gilles Aubry shares findings from his research on […]

May 22-23 2025 – LIPS Festival, Lab Gamerz, Aix, FR

22.05.25, 19:00, screening of Atantic Ragagar Amphithéâtre de l’École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence — Institut de l’image, 57 rue Emile Tavan, Aix-en-Provence https://lab-gamerz.com/les-dissidentes-atlantic/ 23.05.25, 20:30, live set by YRLNG Jardin Villa Sacem, 7 rue Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence https://lab-gamerz.com/rbia-harsha-cinta/  

May 15 2025 – Live at Audiovisionen, Berlin

Audiovisionen 2025 Plattform für akustische und elektronische Live-Musik in den Räumen der Zwingli Kirche, Berlin. Kuratiert von Hannes Teichmann. 15.5. Ahmed Essyad + Gilles Aubry The concert program highlights the convergence of traditional and avant-garde music in Morocco. Ahmed Essyad’s electroacoustic compositons from the 1970s evoke popular music heard in Moroccan villages in the late […]

April 25-26 2025 – Subterranean Changes – Marrakech Edition

  A public sound and music program in Marrakech, Morocco, 25-26.4.2025   An exploration of experimental sound practices and electroacoustic composition in North Africa, bringing together musical creation, deep listening, sound studies and the therapeutic dimensions of sound. These two-day encounters are part of a wider reflection on aurality, sound modernity and the way listening […]

April 20 2025 – Screening at Guerilla Collective

Developing the Vanished Online screening program by Guerrilla Collective, April 20 2025. Program Vampires, It’s Nothing to Laugh at, by Kinga Michalska Salam Godzilla, by Gilles Aubry Light of Light, by Neritan Zinxhiria  

April 18-20 2025 – Sakhra Encounters in Moulay Bouchta, Morocco

Sakhra Encounters 2025 (18-20.4.2025) Initiated in 2019 by Abdeljalil Saouli, Gilles Aubry and Carlos Perez Marin, the Sakhra project aims to bring together practitioners of art and research in a convivial setting open to the public. The event takes place over three days in April 2025 in Moulay Bouchta, a village 60 km north of […]

April 1st 2025 – YRLNG Live at O Tannenbaum Berlin

O Tannenbaum Tuesday Night Live Hermannstraße 232, 12049 Berlin YRLNG (Gilles Aubry) – ‘Rbia Harsha Cinta’ (Live) Zeynep Toraman (Live) Doors: 19:00, Live Music: 20:00 YRLNG (Live Set) ‘Rbia Harsha Cinta’ YRLNG is a project by Gilles Aubry, dedicated to ambient and abstract electronic music. The album Rbia, Harsha, Cinta was released on Antibody in […]

March 19 and 21 2025 – YRLNG live in Istanbul at BINA and Nohextended

Two live sets by YRLNG this week in Istanbul March 19, 8pm: BINA BAR, Caferağa, Kadife Sk. No:26, 34710 Kadıköy/İstanbul. W/Fosil and Semi https://www.instagram.com/bina.moda/ March 21st, 10pm: Nohextended,Tomtom, Tosbağa Sk. Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey 34433. https://www.instagram.com/nohextended/  

February 26 2025 – Public Lecture at Zurich University of the Arts

Public Lecture by Gilles Aubry as part of the series “Cultural Analysis in the Arts” at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). 26.02.2025, 17:00 Toni-Areal, Seminarraum 4.T09, Ebene 4, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich https://www.zhdk.ch/veranstaltung/56901 What Listening Can Do: Sonic Pluralism as Artistic Research Following the publication of his book Sawt, Bodies, Species on sound and […]

October 16/17 2024 – Subterranean Changes at Art Explora Festival, Rabat

October 16th, 20h, Institut Français, Rabat Subterranean Changes – An electroacoustic concert by Ahmed Essyad and Gilles Aubry https://www.artexplora.org/en/festival/performance/subterranean-changes-un-concert-electro-acoustique An electroacoustic concert by Ahmed Essyad and Gilles Aubry at the Salle Gérard Philipe, Institut Français de Rabat. The programme concert highlights the convergence of traditional and avant-garde music in Morocco. Ahmed Essyad’s electronic compositions, dating […]

Sept 2024 – YRLNG live shows in Switzerland

7.9, 10pm – @yingyangminiclub, Bienne, CH with Sote, Souharce, Keeni x Monsieur Connard, Djset Office de Pute 11.9, 8.30pm – Walcheturm, Zurich, CH, live set + Atlantic Ragagar screening https://www.walcheturm.ch 14.9, 8pm – Wurm, Basel, CH with BUTTECHNO, HANNAH WEINBERGER, SIMEON SIGG, and more https://wurm.club/ Check YRLNG’s new record on Antibody https://antibodylabel.bandcamp.com/album/rbia-harsha-cinta

August 31st 2024 – Live at Galiläakirche Berlin

Doors: 19.00 with: Nathalie Forget (Onde Martenot), Lila Fraysse(voice), Bérangère Maximin(LapTop) Caroline Cecilia Tallone(hurdy-gurdy) , Gilles Aubry(Mod Synth, FieldRecording, LapTop) Julius Holtz (Mod.Synth) „Entre les Lignes – Zwischen den Zeilen“ is an exchange project happening in two-part, covering two territories and involving six musicians and sound artists who never played together before. The first part […]

July 9 2024 – Record Release Concert at Cashmere Radio, Berlin

New record out as YRLNG on the Belgian label Antibody. Described as “dark hymn for endangered seaweed species” by BBC3 Late junction, Rbia Harsha Cinta is available in LP/digital format on Bandcamp. https://antibodylabel.bandcamp.com/album/rbia-harsha-cinta Release concert on Tuesday July 9th 2024 at Cashmere Radio in Berlin. Doors : 21h, start : 22h30 (Free) https://cashmereradio.com

April 23 2024 – Presentation at Roaming Assembly Essaouira

2024 ~ Essaouira, Morocco: Roaming Assembly#31 ~ The Seven Colors of the Universe. A collaboration between DAI and Le18, Marrakech. Curated by Laila Hida and hosted by Dar Souiri in Essaouira. Location: Dar Souiri Association Essaouira Mogador 10 avenue du Caire 44000 Essaouira Morocco Flashback to mid March 2020: hosted in Sidi Bou Said by […]

April 10 2024 – Live at Ring Theater Toulouse

  Concert Mercredi 10 avril à 20h au Ring Scène Périphérique, Toulouse Avec : Lila Fraysse Nathalie Forget Julius Holtz Caroline Cecilia Tallone Gilles Aubry Bérangère Maximin En partenariat / avec le soutien de Musikfonds E.V., Impulse Neue Musik, le Goethe Institut de Toulouse, le Ring Scène Périphérique, le COMDT à Toulouse, Liebig12 à Berlin, jugend widerstandsmuseum-galilaakirche à Berlin et la ville de Rabastens. gmea.net

March 25-26 2024 – Sound Arguments at Orpheus Institute, Ghent

          Lecture and workshop by Gilles Aubry on Sonic pluralism, post-natural listening, aural co-domestication as part of Sound Arguments 2024. Sound Arguments is an innovative laboratory-atelier for creative artists and researchers dealing with sound. Presented by the Orpheus Institute, Ghent (BE), and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, University of […]

March 24 2024 – Release concert at Haekem, Brussels

                                    ANTIBODY X SOUNDCUTE present: YRLNG (CH/DE) “RBIA HARSHA CINTA” LP RELEASE PARTY + MAG (SE) AMBIANT DECONSTRUCTED CLUB MUSIC vs DISTORDED PUNK TROMBONE POP 23.4.2024, 19h, Haekem Cafe, Lakensestraat 66 rue de Laeken, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Feb 15 2024 – Opening at IFA Gallery, Berlin

                  Exhibition School of Casablanca February 15 – May 12, 2024 With contributions by Gilles Aubry, Nassim Azarzar, Amina Belghiti & Soukaina Aziz El Idrissi, Bik Van der Pol, Céline Condorelli, Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa, Manuel Raeder, Marion von Osten, Peter Spillmann, and Abdeslam Ziou Ziou. https://www.ifa.de/en/exhibition/school-of-casablanca-1 www.schoolofcasablanca.com ifa-Galerie […]

December 18 2023 – Public lecture at UDK Berlin

Sound in Artistic Research 23 | Public Lecture Series Sawt, Bodies, Species – Listening through others in Morocco Lecture by Dr. Gilles Aubry, moderated by Prof. Dr. Sabine Sanio Online registration via the following link: https://www.udk-berlin.de/studium/sound-studies-and-sonic-arts-master-of-arts/news/sound-in-artistic-research-23/18-dec-2023-dr-gilles-aubry-sawt-bodies-species-listening-through-others-in-morocco/ Following the publication of his book “Sawt, Bodies, Species” (Adocs 2023), Gilles Aubry presents findings from his doctoral research […]

November 10 2023 – School of Casablanca, exhibition opening

  School of Casablanca November 11, 2023 – January 14, 2024 With contributions by Gilles Aubry, Nassim Azarzar, Amina Belghiti & Soukaina Aziz El Idrissi, Bik Van der Pol, Céline Condorelli, Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa, Manuel Raeder, Marion von Osten, Peter Spillmann, and Abdeslam Ziou Ziou. www.schoolofcasablanca.com Locations: L’École Supérieure des beaux-arts de Casablanca, L’Annexe de l’église […]

Oct 14 2023 – Sea Art Festival in Busan, South Korea

                                    Atlantic Ragagar (HD video, 2022) will be exhibited as an installation as part of Sea Art Festival in Busan. Dates: October 14 – November 19, 2023 Venue: Ilgwang Beach, Busan, South Korea https://www.saf2023.org/exhibition/artworkview/79?lang=en    

Oct 12 2023 – IMPULSE Festival Halle

Atlantic Ragagar (Aubry, 2022) will be screened as part of IMPULSE Festival 2023 (Halle and Leipzig), followed by a Q&A. 12.10.2023, 20.00 – 22.00 Uhr Location: Zazie Kino Halle https://impulsfestival.de/2023/programm/impuls-kino-1/

Sept 1st 2023 – Opening of SpeicherN at SILO Potsdam

  Aubry’s video Atlantic Ragagar is part of the SpeicherN group show in Potsdam, Sept 1-29.2023. https://speichern.art/ Ladestrasse 1 14558 Nuthetal OT Bergholz-Rehbrücke Formerly built as a sign of FORTSCHRITT, now abandoned and unused. The SPEICHER tells of a time when the GDR and its collectivization structure had a future. WHEREAS storing as a CONDITION […]

August 20 2023 – Presentation at Time to Listen Festival, ADK Berlin

Time to Listen – The Ecological Crisis in Sound and Music Festival with an exhibition, concerts, workshops for children and teenagers, open-space symposium, presentations and a community day in Moabit 18 August – 3 September 2023 Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin https://www.adk.de/en/projects/2023/time-to-listen/ Sawt, Bodies, Species – Ecological voices and interspecies performance, open session by Gilles […]

July 9th 2023 – Book launch and live set at BEEK Hamburg

                                    Book launch of “Sawt, Bodies, Species – Sonic Pluralism in Morocco” (adocs 2023) + live set Rbia, Harsha, Cinta (Gilles Aubry, electronics) + live set by Pedro Oliveira + live set by Hye-Eun Kim 9.7.2023, 20h BEEK […]

June 6th 2023 – Salam Godzilla at UDK Berlin

Screening of Salam Godzilla (Aubry 2019, 40:35) as part of the SoundS Reader book Launch on June 6th 2023, 5pm Lietzenburger Str. 45, 10789 Berlin Info: https://www.udk-berlin.de/studium/sound-studies-and-sonic-arts-master-of-arts/news/6-june-2023-sic-sound-studies-reader/ Program Jan Thoben: Vertigo Machines 2 channel video installation, 2013 (7’50” loop) Kathrin Scheidt: Alternative Book Cover Designs for the SoundS Reader 2022 Gilles Aubry: Salam Godzilla, Video, […]