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Excited to launch Swiss Ocean Services, a new sound series exploring Switzerland’s historical and ongoing entanglements with colonialism, extractivism, and racism — as well as the nation’s reluctance to take responsibility for these legacies.

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New audio piece + interview with M'barek Bouhchichi as part of our Subterranean Changes Sound Series.

Bouhchichi reads verses by black peasant poet M'barek Ben Zida (1925-73) alongside an electronic soundscape made with a Serge analog synthesizer from 1973.

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Paid PhD position in visual anthropology at Bern university
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May 15 at Zwingli Kirche Berlin: 1970s electroacoustic works by Ahmed Essyad and L'makina by Gilles Aubry for modular synth and computer. Info: kulturraum-zwinglikirche.de/audiovisione...

☄︎╭The Aesthetics of Darkness in Electronic Music: Between Dystopian Lures and Futuristic Fixations╮

Abadir's view on dystopian aesthetics, Gaza, and white washing politics in European music festivals.
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Part 2 of Subterranean Changes today 3pm at Le 18 Marrakech.

Join us for listening sessions and conversations on sound, rhythm, dissonance, noise and resistance with Ahmed Essyad, Leila Bencharnia, Mbarek Bouhchich, Joe Namy, Chloé Despax, Fatima Zahra Lakrissa.
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Tonight in Marrakech! Live performances by Ahmed Essyad, Leila Bencharnia and Gilles Aubry at DADA Art space. Subterranean Changes explores experimental sound practices in North Africa.
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Excited to announce the launch of parastatal.art, a new sound platform for artistic research and curation ! Parastatal listens to echoes of contestation, resistance and solidarity in the violent cloud of sound history.