A Wasted Breath Inside a Balloon

Aubry, Gilles; Beladel, Ramia (2019). A Wasted Breath Inside a Balloon [Audio]. Kino Rex. February 22th - 24th 2019.

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The piece results from collaboration between the artists Ramia Beladel and Gilles Aubry in Moulay Bouchta l’Khmar, a village in the northern part of Morocco. Informed by Beladel's long term research on popular Sufism, the piece documents events which took place in July 2017 during the annual celebration of the local saint Moulay Bouchta. One can hear songs, prayers, field recordings, and an excerpt of bokharia, a healing ritual based on the powerful sound of rifles. The piece also provides a stage for a performance by Beladel relying on introspection, trance and self-reconfiguration, breath by breath, balloon after balloon. World premiere at Sonohr Radio Festival, Bern, 2019. Moroccan premiere at Sakhra Encounters, a festival and exhibition in Moulay Bouchta, 2019.

Item Type:	Audiovisual Material & Event (Audio)
Division/Institute:	Bern Academy of the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Practices and Theories in the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Practices and Theories in the Arts > Auditory Cultures
Name:	Aubry, Gilles and Beladel, Ramia
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Publisher:	Sonohr Radio & Podcast Festival
Funders:	[UNSPECIFIED] Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Language:	German
Submitter:	Gilles Joseph André Aubry
Date Deposited:	14 Dec 2022 11:28
Last Modified:	19 Dec 2022 15:59
Related URLs:	http://www.earpolitics.net/projects/a-wa...
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.18259
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/18259