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....
“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...
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,...
“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...
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...
“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...
[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
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...
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
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...
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...
“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
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...
New installation “Unsound Traces” by Gilles Aubry for the 4th Casablanca International Contemporary Art Biennale. Info: https://www.biennalecasablanca.org/
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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/
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...
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...
Corvo records night at West Germany. Live performance by Gilles Aubry and other Corvo artists. https://westgermany.wordpress.com/
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...
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...
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...
Installation at ARTA, Rencontres d’Art Contemporain, Alger, January 10-14 2018, at Palais de la culture Moufdi Zakaria. info www.artalger.com
Solo performance by Gilles Aubry, along with Beam Splitter (Audrey Chen / Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø). Location: L’Eustache, Berlin, 20h
“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...
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)
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]
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”
World premiere broadcast of “The Gramophone Effect” (German version), by Gilles Aubry & Robert Millis on German National Radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Time: August 17 2017 night at 5′ past midnight (technically already August 18 ) Link to radio station page HERE The Gramophone Effect (2017, 45′) Departing from historical...
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...