Gilles Aubry (*1973, Montfaucon) Berlin

Based on the recordings of traditional Moroccan music made by Paul Bowles in 1959, Gilles Aubry has carried out comprehensive research since 2013 in collaboration with musicians and numerous interviewees to ascertain the reception of these recordings in today‘s Morocco,with a particular focus upon the contemporary discourse on cultural heritage. He presents a sound installation with elements of his research in addition to a film projec­tion without images. The work addresses political invisibility by showing parallels between the character
of Paul Bowles as an invisible witness, the veil as a strategy of resistance against colonialism by local female singers and the myth of the Pythagorean veil, appro­priated by the fathers of Musique concrète in France in the 1950s.