October 17 2019 – January 6 2020 – HKW, Berlin, exhibition “Love and Ethnology”
Love and Ethnology The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte) 2019, Oct 18, Fri — 2020, Jan 06, Mon The writer and ethnologist Hubert Fichte (1935–1986) is considered a poetic and documentarian realist precursor for new disciplines […]
October 11 2019 – Live performance at Sentimental Punk Berlin
SENTIMENTAL PUNK #45_ Barbara Hammer Film-Fragments on Giles Aubrey & Thomas+Ursula Kotti-Soundscapes* Every 11 of the month Sentimental Punk presents a selection of structuralist & avant-garde filmmakers. Every 11 of the month Sentimental Punk invites 2 sound artists to interpret live the films. Soundtrack #1: Gilles Aubry – sonic actions with microphone, synth and computer […]
August 20-23 2019 – Resound Conference, Aalborg
Research presentation by Gilles Aubry Info: http://www.mediaarthistory.org/resound
August 15 2019 – Mosaic Rooms, London, artist presentation and listening session
Listening session + discussion: “Encounters in Gendered Noise”, Thursday 15 August, 7pm, FREE Sound artist Gilles Aubry presents sound recordings and videos from his research in Morocco exploring gender separation, female representation and female resistance. Aubry will also reflects on his own encounters with whiteness and masculinity as part of his engagement with colonial archives, […]
July 26 – September 19 2019 – Bauhaus Weimar, “Radiophonic Spaces” exhibition
“The Gramophone Effect” (Aubry & Millis, audio 40′, 2017) is presented as part of the group exhibition “Radiophonic Spaces” at the Weimar Bauhaus. The same exhibition was presented at Tinguely Museum Basel and House of World Culture Berlin in 2018. More info here.
July 16 2019 – Live performance, Marseille, at Mujô
Gilles Aubry, « It’s not a hit, it’s a demand » (screening & performance) 19h30, Mujô, 18, rue d’Italie, 13006 Marseille ̴L̸a̴ ̸M̴e̶m̶b̴r̷a̷n̶e~ et MUJŌ s’allient pour présenter une soirée avec l’artiste sonore Gilles Aubry autour de sa recherche sur la matérialité du son et de l’écoute au Maroc. Au programme : la projection […]
July 9-15 2019 – “Salam Godzilla” at FID Marseille, International Film Festival
“Salam Godzilla” (Aubry, 2019, 40’35) will be screened as part of FID Marseille 2019. About the film: The cinema Salam in Agadir is one of the few buildings that survived the dramatic 1960 earthquake. The film revisits the disaster from various angles, including newsreels, seismic science, Moroccan cinema and a local poem interpreted by […]
May 26 2019 – At the Margins of Europa City, collective intervention in Berlin
Am Rand von EuropaCity – At the margins of Europa City A project by Yves Mettler and Alexis Hymann Wolff, in collaboration with Gilles Aubry & Scriptings. Europa City is a new, investor friendly neighbourhood growing silently […]
April 7 2019 – “Salam Godzilla”, Premiere screening at Visions du Réel International Film Festival, Nyon
“When the terrible 1960 earthquake hit Agadir, the local cinema Salam was showing Ishiro Honda and Terry O. Morse’s Godzilla, King of Monsters! Weirdly enough, it was also one of the few buildings to survive the […]
March 22 2019 – “Atlantic Ragagar”, sound performance at Le 18, Marrakech
Sound cooking with seaweed and pollution by Gilles Aubry & Younes Boundir. The performance combines interviews, soundscapes and scientific data related to industrial exploitation of red seaweed (aka “agar agar”) in Sidi Bouzid on the Atlantic coast in Morocco. Attentive to the effects of anthropogenic pollution on the fragile local ecosystem and to the […]
March 15-17 2019 – Sakhra Encounters in Moulay Bouchta, Morocco
“Sakhra” Art encounter and exhibition in Moulay Bouchta al Khamar, Morocco, 15-17 March 2019 Initiated by Abdeljalil Saouli, Gilles Aubry & Carlos Perez Marin, the event explores the concept of environmental cohabitation in the rural context of Moulay Bouchta, a village situated north of Fès in Morocco, via local vernacular architecture, sound artistic experiments […]
February 22-24 2019 – Sonohr Festival, Bern
Credit: Ramia Beladel The sound piece “A wasted breath inside balloon” co-realized with Ramia Beladel will be part of the upcoming sonOhr Hörfestival in Bern next February, also nominated for the competition. More info: http://sonohr.ch/die-nominierten-2019/ « A wasted Breath inside a Balloon » (Ramia Beladel & Gilles Aubry, 41’30”, 2018) Departing from Ramia Beladel’s long term […]
January 29 2019 – 60′ mix on dublab radio
Mix by Gilles Aubry, composed from field recordings made in the Taghia gorges, South-Atlas, Maroc. Sounds Unsaid, curated by Laura Lot, 21h CET Home
November 24 2018 – Performance at “Die Reihe”, UDK Berlin
Live performance of the piece “And who sees the mystery”, originaly published on the Berlin label Corvo Records in 2017. The performance is based on sound check situations and rehearsals of Berber-Amazigh music recorded by Gilles Aubry in Morocco. Using his microphone as a sound processing device Aubry transforms further his field recordings through […]
November 21-25 2018 – Qanat: Performing change from the margins – Le 18, Marrakech
Unfolding across five days at LE 18 (Marrakech) in November 2018, QANAT: PERFORMING CHANGE FROM THE MARGINS reunites artists, cultural practitioners, architects, researchers, activists engaged through diverse practices and lenses on the politics and poetics of water in particular and the commons in general in Morocco, to create a temporary space of encounter and […]
November 1st – December 2nd 2018 – Radiophonic Spaces exhibition, HKW, Berlin
“The Gramophone Effect”, an audio piece co-realized with Rob Millis for Documenta14, will be part of the group exhibtion “Radiophonic Spaces” at House of World Cultures (HKW) Berlin and in Basel at the Tinguely Museum. Full info here https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2018/radiophonic_spaces/radiophonic_spaces_start.php
November 3rd 2018 – Black A(n)thena (Kosmos), performance by Aubry & Bikoro, HKW Berlin
Black A(n)thena (Kosmos), performance by Gilles Aubry & Nathalie Anguezomo M’ba Bikoro Festival Ohrenmensch, as part of the Radiophonic Culture exhibition, House of World Cultures (HKW), Berlin Black A(n)thena (Kosmos) explores the link between radio reception and piracy as a form of untraining the ear and decanonising forms of knowledge. The project understands signals […]
October 26 2018 – Opening of the Casablanca International Contemporary Art Biennale
New installation “Unsound Traces” by Gilles Aubry for the 4th Casablanca International Contemporary Art Biennale. Info: https://www.biennalecasablanca.org/
October 7 2018 – “Vallon Tellurique” performance at Habiter & Jardiner Festival, Lausanne
Performance-workshop on location by Gilles Aubry in collaboration with geobiologist Marie Jeanneret and the musicians of the Babel ensemble. Starting with a practical introduction to water divining and telluric currents by Marie Jeanneret, the performance will evolove into a collective performance combining listening and sound making in dialog with the environmental voices of the […]
September 26 2018 – Preview of “Salam Godzilla” at OOR, Zurich
Preview of “Salam Godzilla” (Gilles Aubry, 40′, in progress) 19h, OOR records, Anwandstrasse 30, 8004 Zurich Built in 1946, the cinema Salam in Agadir is one of the few buildings that survived the dramatic 1960 earthquake. Shot inside the cinema and in the surroundings of Agadir, the film is a poetic meditation accross local […]
September 22 2018 – Workshop “Field recording and non-human voices”, Kulturburo, Zürich
Sound artist Gilles Aubry gives an introduction to field recording techniques, including various types of microphones, recorders and recording strategies. The participants go then on a sound exploration of non-human sound sources in Kreis 4, looking for animal, vegetal, mineral and spiritual voices to record, ending with a collective improvisation […]
August 19th 2018 – Live performance at Festival Les Digitales, Basel
Live quad sound performance by Gilles Aubry at Festival Les Digitales Basel 2018 One day 10 acts of live experimental music in quadrophonic sound! Location: Merian park, Basel https://lesdigitales.ch/events/basel-2018/ Line-Up: Holy Oscilators Stéphane Montavon Gilles Aubry Earpolitics Laurent Güdel & Francisco Meirino Feine Trinkers bei Pinkels Daheim NuR Na-aH Lisbent & Teppop Daniel Steiner The […]
August 16 2018 – “The Gramophone Effect” on Deutschlandfunk Radio
Broadcast of “The Gramophone Effect” (German version), by Gilles Aubry & Robert Millis on German National Radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Time: August 16 2018 night at 5′ past midnight (0:05, technically already August 17 ) Link to radio station page HERE The Gramophone Effect (2017, 45′) Departing from historical accounts by recording pioneers such as Theobald […]
June 1-3 2018 – Black Anthenna, Aubry & M’ba Bikoro at Tuned City, Messene, Greece
Black Anthenna A performance by Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro and Gilles Aubry for the Tuned City Festival 2018, Ancient Messene, Greece The artists re-examine the entangled histories of German colonialism in West Africa, botanic and mineral sciences, and ancient Greek civilization in order to create a new performance for the wrestling area (palaestra) on the […]
May 13 2018 – Live performance at West Germany, Berlin
Corvo records night at West Germany. Live performance by Gilles Aubry and other Corvo artists. https://westgermany.wordpress.com/
May 7 2018 – performance at the Radiophonic Cultures conference, Tinguely Museum
Live sound performance by Gilles Aubry, 17h, Tinguely Museum, Basel. Baraka Radio Live performance by Gilles Aubry based on his current research on sung poetry, sonic intimacy and environmental voices in rural Morocco. The work explores the many voices resonating in the Taghia gorges in the […]
Interview in Diptyk art magazine, February 2018
April 23 and 24 2018 – Talk and live performance at ZHDK, Zurich
Video still, Gorge, by Lina Laraki, 2018 23.4.2018, 18h, ZHDK, Zurich “Wretched Ears”, presentation by Gilles Aubry for the ICST Musikgespräche series The talk is an introduction to Aubry’s current researches in Morocco on sonic intimacy and post-naturalist ontologies. Departing from a sound ethnography of daily life in rural areas, he becomes attentive to […]
March 16 2018 – Opening of “Communism of Waves” exhibition at LE 18, Marrakech
COMMUNISM OF WAVES 16-03-2018 // 14-04-2018 Opening 16-03-2018, 7pm. A project by Gilles Aubry, in collaboration with Ali Faiq, Dounia Fikri, Lina Laraki, Abderrahim Nidalha, Abdeljalil Saouli. Co-curated by LE 18 Exhibition / Conversations / Concerts / Performances / Workshops LE 18, derb el ferrane, Marrakech www.le18marrakech.com Starting from Gilles Aubry’s researches on sound and […]
January 10-14 2018 – ARTA, Rencontres d’Art Contemporain, Alger
Installation at ARTA, Rencontres d’Art Contemporain, Alger, January 10-14 2018, at Palais de la culture Moufdi Zakaria. info www.artalger.com
Dec 19 2017 – Live performance at l’Eustache, Berlin
Solo performance by Gilles Aubry, along with Beam Splitter (Audrey Chen / Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø). Location: L’Eustache, Berlin, 20h
Who’s afraid of music?, article on Gilles Aubry’s sound art practice in Metropolis M (October 2017)
“Who’s afraid of music? A road trip with some of the most daring tunes of the summer”, article by Linnea Semmerling for Metropolis M art magazine, October 2017 “Up until a few years ago, a considerable fear of music was widespread among many artists working with sound. In 2013, the philosopher and music theorist Brian […]
Articles in Telquel.ma “Sur les traces de Paul Bowles” (in French)
Two articles by Margaux Mazellier on Paul Bowles recording project in Morocco and our current research related to it: The first one is accessible online: http://telquel.ma/2017/09/25/le-maroc-des-annees-50-en-musique-par-paul-bowles_1562180 The second one here (print version, different content)
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]
November 24-26 2017 – Aubry & Tabti exhibition at FRISE, Hamburg
Tandem exhibition with Youssef Tabti at FRISE Künstlerhaus, Hamburg, November 24-26 2017. www.frise.de Two new installation by Aubry “The sickle and the antenna (a communism of waves)” and “who ears the desert”