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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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L’Makina review on Chain DLK

Review of the album L’Makina by Gilles Aubry (Corvo Records). on Chain DLK, June 2025. In an age where the hum of machines is often just background noise, Gilles Aubry’s “L’Makina” invites us to lean closer, to really listen – and to think. This is not a mere homage to mechanized...

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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...

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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...

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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/  

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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...

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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...

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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   https://www.guerrillacollective.co/screenings/developing-the-vanished

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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 :...

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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...

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New album on BBC3 Late Junction

YRLNG’s new album featured on BBC3 Late Junction show. Live on April 12 2024, 23h CET and later as podcast. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xw10 “dark hymns for endangered seaweed species”

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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