Sawt, Bodies, Species. Sonic Pluralism in Morocco.

Aubry, Gilles (2023). Sawt, Bodies, Species. Sonic Pluralism in Morocco. Hamburg, Germany: adocs Produktion und Verlag 10.53198/9783943253641

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In Sawt, Bodies, Species, Gilles Aubry offers an account on sound and listening in Morocco across a wide domain of activities, including musical and artistic expression, sound archives, urban planning, building techniques, seismology, healing practices, industrial extractivism, and ecology. Sawt in Arabic literally means sound and voice. Sound in Morocco thus intimately relates to the body; it never quite corresponds with its modern Western counterpart as a phenomenon separable from the other senses. Sonic pluralism recapitulates Aubry's attempts to think sound and aurality together with modernity and (de-)coloniality. The transformative power of sonic pluralism is expressed in people's acts of listen- ing and sounding, aimed at questioning and shifting social conventions. On the level of ecology, sonic pluralism reveals extra-human agencies that mediate between people and their environment. Drawing on critical Sound Studies, ethnographic research, and artistic practice, Aubry's dense descriptions are complemented by audiovisual essays created in collaboration with local musicians, artists, and scientists.

Item Type:

Book (Monograph)

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, Gilles0000-0002-9019-6603

Subjects:

B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general

ISBN:

9783943253641

Publisher:

adocs Produktion und Verlag

Funders:

[7] Swiss National Science Foundation

Language:

English

Submitter:

Gilles Joseph André Aubry

Date Deposited:

27 Feb 2023 14:15

Last Modified:

13 Dec 2023 09:41

Publisher DOI:

10.53198/9783943253641

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Uncontrolled Keywords:

Sound Studies, Ecology, Sound, Anthropology, Artistic Research, Morocco

ARBOR DOI:

10.24451/arbor.18671

URI:

https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/18671

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