Audiovisionen: Ahmed Essyad + Gilles Aubry
Schedule
Thu, 15 May, 2025 at 10:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
KulturRaum Zwingli-Kirche e.V. | Berlin, BE
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Audiovisionen: Ahmed Essyad + Gilles AubryPart I – Electroacoustic works by Ahmed Essyad
Part II – Live set by Gilles Aubry (modular synth and computer)
The concert program highlights the convergence of traditional and avant-garde music in Morocco. Ahmed Essyad’s electroacoustic compositons from the 1970s evoke popular music heard in Moroccan villages in the late 1950s. Gilles Aubry performs with modular synths and AI sounds inspired by a Moroccan song
about machines from the 1930s. The event celebrates the release of Essyad's album on Belgian label Subrosa (2024) and Aubry's album on Berlin label Corvo (2025).
Links
Ahmed Essyad's record on Subrosa: htps://subrosalabel.bandcamp.com (released on 6.12.2024)
Ahmed Essyad live at La Coupole, Casablanca, 2023:
Interview with Ahmed Essyad on norient.com
Gilles Aubry's record on Corvo : htps://corvorecords.de/release/gilles-aubry-lmakina (to be released on 15.5.2025)
Gilles Aubry live at La Coupole, Casablanca, 2023:
Gilles Aubry's website : htp://www.earpolitics.net
Project info: htp://www.earpolitics.net/scem/
Ahmed Essyad is a composer born in 1938 in Salé, Morocco. Afer studying music at the Rabat Conservatory in Morocco, he moved to Paris in 1962, where he became a pupil and then assistant to Max Deutsch. Trained in the avant-garde processes of Western musical compositon, he also claims the Amazigh folk music of Morocco as a fundamental source of inspiraton for his work. Interested in ethnomusicology, he focused his research on orality and notation (Le Collier des ruses, 1977), as well as on musical time and pulsation (cycle L'eau, 1980-1993; Héloïse et Abélard, 2000). His electroacoustic pieces were produced between 1972 and 1974 in the music studio (S.M.E.C.A) of the American Center in Paris.
Gilles Aubry is a Swiss sound artst, experimental musician, and researcher. His practice relies on research methods and transdisciplinary knowledge from across the arts, humanites, and technology studies, including film, compositon, field recording, performance, installation, radio art, curaton, and partcipatory interventons. His projects have been shown at numerous festivals and art institutions, including documenta14 in Kassel (2017), café Oto London (2017), Ultraschall Festival Berlin (2016), Kontraste Festival Krems (2011), and GRM. He released several albums, in solo and with the noise collective MONNO.
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Where is it happening?
KulturRaum Zwingli-Kirche e.V., Danneckerstraße 4, 10245 Berlin, Deutschland,Berlin, GermanyEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
