April 7 2019 – “Salam Godzilla”, Premiere screening at Visions du Réel International Film Festival, Nyon
“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 few buildings to survive the tragedy. ...
March 22 2019 – “Atlantic Ragagar”, sound performance at Le 18, Marrakech
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 local ecosystem and to the ...
March 15-17 2019 – Sakhra Encounters in Moulay Bouchta, Morocco
“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 vernacular architecture, sound artistic experiments ...
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/