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May 10 2013 – Nice Rain, performance at Errant Bodies, Berlin

    “Nice Rain” by Gilles Aubry performance and discussion May 10th 2013 h 19.00 Errant Bodies project space Kollwitzstraße 97 1 Berlin The project Nice Rain takes the city of Berlin as a pretext for exploring the notion of urban sound document from the perspective of a diversity of recording practices and intentions. Confronted […]

April 6, 2013 – Live performance at LEAP, Berlin

Instrumental Pierre Gerard, Andy Graydon, and David Papapostolou Performance: Saturday 6.4.2013, 20:00 with Andy Graydon, Mario Asef and Gilles Aubry Installation: 2.-7.4.2013, 12:00-18:00 Tue-Sun _______________________________________________________ Instrumental is a performance installation that explores sound’s engagement with time and process, and the productive tensions between the notions of sound-as-object and sound-as-becoming. The installation uses recordings from an […]

February 28, 2013 – Presentation at FICA, Delhi

Presentation at Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), Delhi:Date: Thursday, 28 February 2013 Time: 5:30 pm Venue: FICA Reading Room, D-42 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024 Gilles Aubry is a sound artist currently part of the Pro Helvetia India residency programme. He will present his research in progress about the ‘Bollywood soundscape’ in Mumbai. Over […]

Video excerpt – LUFF 2012

Live excerpt of Aubry’s set « Les Ames Amplifiées » (amplified souls) at the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (LUFF), October 18 2012.Aubry performs audio documents recorded in July 2011 at a spiritual deliverance ceremony at the Libambu Ministry Church, a neo-pentecostal church in Kinshasa, DRC.During the ceremony, church members possessed by evil spirits […]

New review of CD s6t8r on Touching Extremes

GILLES AUBRY – s6t8r By Massimo Ricci November 6, 2012 Winds Measure Gilles Aubry: processed field recordings. A semi-concealed gemstone from 2009, retrieved from a box of old promos with inexcusable delay. Aubry – specialized in installations and pieces for radio – collected echoes from the insides of a Berlin building called Stralau 68, an onetime […]

November 25 & 26 – Ear to the earth Festival, NYC

My piece “Terminal X (departures)” will be part of the “Non-place Place” programm at the Ear to the earth Festival in NYC. More details about the programm to come on this website:http://www.eartotheearth.org/e2e_2012.html__

New videos available on Vimeo

Concert at Lichtblick Cinema, Nerlin, September 2012 (excerpt): Concert at Sonic Acts XIII, Amsterdam, 2010 (full): Video documentation of exhibition “Flux donnés à entendre” at Reattu Museum, Arles:

October 17-19 2012 – Live performance at LUFF 2012, Lausanne

Lausanne Underground Film Festival LUFF 2012 Live performance of “Les Âme Amplifiées”, a quadraphonic audio diffusion based on an audio documentation of a spiritual deliverance service by the Libambu Ministry Church in Kinshasa, DRC. More info and program: http://www.luff.ch

Sep 13 – 16 2012 – BERLINER LISTE fair for contemporary art

Some documentation about my work will be on display at the Berliner Liste art fairat the Berlinerpool stand (booth number K 0.07) http://www.berliner-liste.org/ Berlinerpool is an artist initiative that structures a cooperative network of artists, curators and art spaces. The online profile pages and mobile archive provide information about berlinerpool members. berlinerpool offers consulting and […]

June 12 – 17 2012 – Swiss Art Awards

_ Gilles Aubry has received a prize for his works  ‘Pluie de Feu’ and ‘The Laman Encounter’ at the Swiss Art Awards 2012 competition. The exhibition runs in parallel to the main Art Basel show from June 12 to 17 (10 – 20h).Messe Basel, Hall 4. Watch a short report in German on the exhibition

June 10 2012 – presentation of the Black Move exhibition catalog

_ Gilles Aubry and Yves Mettler will present the catalog published at the occasion of their exhibition ‘Black Move’ at Kunsthaus Langenthal. The publication will include views of the exhibition, as well as numerous images, interviews and archive documents collected during the research phase of the project. The catalog will also present extended sections of […]

May 7 2012 – ORIGINALFASSUNG #78: GILLES AUBRY

 Gilles Aubry – Movies without picturesThe art work Pluie de Feu is the result of a field research by sound artist Gilles Aubry in collaboration with sociologist Gerda Heck, cameraman Arnold Maluamyangila and journalist Massy Nguvu. During his stay in Kinshasa in july 2011, Aubry has documented the activities of the neo-pentecostal Libambu Ministry church, as well as acoustic […]

May 2012 – Somewhere on the edge, compilation by Gruenrekorder

Gruenrekorder has released “Somewhere on the Edge”, a 47 tracks field recordings compilation which features one track of mine, “Re(hear)sal”, recorded in Moscow in 2005.  This release can be downloaded for free here: http://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=7284 Read the review by Richard Allen HERE

Some views of the Black Move exhibition at Kunsthaus Langenthal

Gilles Aubry und Yves Mettler. Black Move 3. Mai bis 8. Juli 2012Vernissage: Mittwoch, 2. Mai, 19 Uhr Der Abriss des «Tell» 1981 im Langenthaler Ortskern in einer grossen Armeeübung und die Asphaltmischanlage «Black Move» der Langenthaler Firma Ammann, die in entlegenen Gebieten zum Strassenbau eingesetzt wird – dies sind die Ausgangspunkte der beiden Westschweizer […]

Feb 23-26 2012 – GLOBAL PRAYERS Theme Day @ HKW, Berlin

 _  _ The Global Prayers research project examines the mobilization of the religious and its effect on urban life in the 21st century. The Theme Days at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (February 23–26, 2012) bring together the different strands of scientific and artistic research and provide a forum for a large audience to […]

January 27 – April 1 2012 – Camera Austria, Graz

The group exhibition “The Urban cultures of Global Prayers” will be the guest of the Camera Austria Art space in Graz. See more picture of the exhibition HERE Opening: January 27 Artist talks on January 28 CAMERA AUSTRIALendkai 18020 Graz, Austriawww.camera-austria.at

Nov 12 2011 – Jan 8 2012 // Exhbition The Urban Cultures of Global Prayers

_  New art works “Pluie de Feu” and ” and “The Laman Encounter” by Gilles Aubry for the group exhibition “Urban cultures of Global Prayers” at NGBK Gallery, Berlin. The exhibition the Urban Cultures of Global Prayers takes place at the NGBK in Berlin from Nov 11, 2011 to Jan 8th, 2012. It looks at the media-based and cultural modes […]

Oct 14 2011 – Kontraste festival Krems 2011

_  Kontraste Festival 2011 in Krems, Austria. Gilles Aubry will present a new composition “Les âmes amplifiées” created especially for the GRM Loudspeaker orchestra (acousmonium).

Sept 11 2011 – Silence Radio

_  New audio piece “Profanations” by Gilles Aubry to be released on Silence Radio. Pieces by other artist include Dominique Petitgand, Hanna Hartman & Alvin Curran.