Sound installation By Gilles Aubry at Frise Art Space, Hamburg, February 2017.

Made of barley plants and telescopic radio antennas, the work turns the exhibition room into a space of attunement to all kinds of waves and vibes, real or imaginary, in which the public is invited to spend time considering new modes of collectivism.

The installation serves as an introduction to Aubry’s current researches in Morocco on sonic intimacy and sung poetry. Departing from a sound ethnography of daily life in rural areas, he becomes attentive to the specific agency of non-human beings, things, tools, locations and devices. Aubry approaches radio as a model for the exploration of intimate, wireless, and interspecies relations, and as a space for post-natural speculation. Sound bits from the research are published regularly on the Wretched Ear Radio channel on the internet and are also part of the installation soundtrack.