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 ...
August 19th 2018 – Live performance at Festival Les Digitales, Basel
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 & Teppop Daniel Steiner The ...
August 16 2018 – “The Gramophone Effect” on Deutschlandfunk Radio
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 recording pioneers such as Theobald ...
June 1-3 2018 – Black Anthenna, Aubry & M’ba Bikoro at Tuned City, Messene, Greece
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 wrestling area (palaestra) on the ...