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<p>Far from an ascetic posture, the artists take us on a sonic journey through their contributions: in the Moroccan countryside (Touda Bouanani and Youssef Titou), in the oasis of Tighmert (Kram Benchrif), in the Saharan desert (Oli Bonzanigo), and in the imagination of future newborns (Ali Essafi).</p>
<p>Children’s and animals’ voices, Berber dialects, Jbala and Hassani, songs, music, broken radios and cooking recipes cross our ears like so many travel notes, fragments collected in residence or processed in the studio. Fragile and hopeful, these sounds bear witness to the diversity of languages, cultures and imaginaries in today’s Morocco. They underline the artists’ interest in sound and listening in the service of quasi-ethnographic practices and participatory interventions in peripheral and often marginalized regions, inviting popular knowledge to the heart of their artistic sensibility.</p>
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<p>Sound archives recorded between southern France and the Souss-Massa-Draâ region between 2019 and 2025.</p>
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<p>The piece is a compilation of field recordings and sound fragments collected between 2019 and 2024 in Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal. Primarily focused on two oases in the Sahara Desert, Ouadane (MRT) and Mhamid (MOR), it portrays the dynamic vitality and the constant exchanges that punctuate the silence of the desert
landscapes, areas of inspiring coexistence shaped by the constant movement of border less nomadic trails.</p>
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<p>Anaruz (hope in Berber). A sound journey of songs and sounds of hope by Moroccan voices from the countryside to the city at the beginning of the 21st century. Languages: Berber and dialectal Arabic.</p>
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<p>A sound journey imagining the first retreat of future newborns.</p>
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<p>On the canal that runs through the Tighmert oasis, the water is no more than a thread. Children stubbornly play the navigators’ race. Pushing their handmade boats up the canal, their feet in the water, they keep alive a fable of an imaginary oasis where water flows abundantly.</p>
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