From the political implications of human voice to its potential of un-making sense.

  • Ahmed Essyad at a live performance in Casablanca, 2023 (photo: Ayoub Bouinbaden).
    The Body of Sound: Ahmed Essyad’s Electroacoustic Music
    Interview by Gilles Aubry, Ahmed Essyad
    An extended conversation with the Moroccan composer about performance in electroacoustic music, cultural roots and identity, the importance of music, the voice and the body, nature and ecology, and many more topics.
  • Film still from «Atlantic Ragagar», Gilles Aubry, 2022 (photo: Gilles Aubry).
    Voices Across the Ocean
    Short Essay by Zeynep Bulut
    Inspired by Gilles Aubry’s video essay «Atlantic Ragagar», our author reflects on the relationship between water, body, voice, and language. Bulut calls for a critical approach towards voice and language, and a practice of listening with others.
  • Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, Delhi (photo: Anubhuti Sharma).
    Folds of Time: Delhi in the Memory of Qawwals
    Essay by Anubhuti Sharma
    In this essay, the author unpacks memories of the city in the song of Qawwals, observing how in memorializing the past, Delhi emerges in Qawwali not as a location, an identity, or a descriptive category, but always as a space of desire.
  • Seaweed collectors in Sidi Bouzid, Morocco, August 2018 (photo: Gilles Aubry).
    Seaweed, Pollution, and the Voice of the Sea
    Book Chapter by Gilles Aubry
    The scientific research on seaweed of the biologist Younes Boundir provides an entry point into industrial extractivism and ecological justice in Morocco.