STONESOUND
This video is a documentation of a joint experiment in stone sounding in Moulay Bouchta, Morocco. The artist Abdeljalil Saouli speaks about his relationship with stones, as part of a local history of co-evolution between humans and their environment.
A rich soundscape emerges, somewhere between a lithophone instrument, a sound lab, and a living ecosystem carved by water erosion. The general notion of «sound» is re-examined through the notion of «stonesound», pointing to a relational understanding of sound and listening.
Shot and produced by Gilles Aubry and Abdeljalil Saouli in 2020.
10'23'', HD video
World premiere at Sakhra Encounters, a festival and exhibition in Moulay Bouchta, 2019.
International premiere at Simon Fraser University as part of the Festival A Light Footprint in the Cosmos, 2022.
This video is part of the Norient Online Special Sawt, Bodies, Species, a joint publication with adocs, extending Gilles Aubry’s physical book Sawt, Bodies, Species: Sonic Pluralism in Morocco into a digital publication with additional video and audio materials. The Open Access publication of this book was made possible with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Biography
Gilles Aubry is an artist, musician, and researcher based in Lausanne and Berlin. He creates installations, films, performances, and radio pieces which explore the cultural, ecological and affective dimensions of sound and listening. He has an MA in sonic arts from the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK) and recently completed a doctoral thesis on sound, aurality, and ecological voices in Morocco. His works have been presented in numerous international festivals and art institutions, including the Marrakech Biennale (2014), documenta_14 in Kassel (2017), and Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid (2020). Follow him on
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Biography
Abdeljalil Saouli, born in Fez in 1984, graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan (INBA) in 2012. He became known as part of a new generation of artists in Morocco and participated in several individual and group exhibitions in the country and abroad. Follow him on
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Published on May 04, 2023
Last updated on September 18, 2023
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