Autour de Jbal Amergou, deux jeunes hommes, au loin, échangent une énergie sonore. Ça parle, ça bégaie, ça s’interrompt. Leurs mots sont des sifflets qui se mêlent aux voix de leurs chèvres et chien. De leur composition, un paysage naît.
Sound essay in French and Arabic on seeds, taste, and food production in Moulay Bouchta, Morocco. Through exchanges with gardeners and farmers, Abdeljalil Saouli and Gilles Aubry explore seedlings as sentient entities bearing memories linked to taste, touch, and generations of interaction with humans and the environment. The piece is a tribute to local ecological knowledge and a poetic speculation on living matter and interspecies relationships. Credits Research: Abdeljalil Saouli and Gilles Aubry Voice: Hasnae El Ouarga Recording and editing: Gilles Aubry Parastatal 2025
Building on Ramia Beladel’s long-term artistic research on rituality, the sound piece is the result of her collaboration with Gilles Aubry in Moulay Bouchta, a village in northern Morocco. The piece documents the annual celebration of the local saint, including songs, prayers, and bokharia, a healing ritual based on the powerful sound of rifles. The piece also serves as a platform for a new performance by Beladel, representing an inner introspection and a progressive reconfiguration of her own self, breath by breath, balloon after balloon.