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 https://dublab.de/
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 ...