Change, Saout Radio, 2012, 2’14’’
Change is a sound intervention inspired di- rectly by the informal market exchange as a virus that links itself to the public space. In this work Mohamed Laouli has created a rhythmic dimension where two sounds (one of money and the other one of a broken voice that keeps repeating the word «sarf / change») are juxtaposed as echoes until they reach their climax. This sound piece is part of an experimental approach by the artist who observes the relationship of the individual in relation to the profit. In a context where speculation and fraud are common, the artist looks critically at the pseudo-organization that is the financial system, its feverishness and arbitrariness.
Directed by Mohamed Laouli 
Sound and Mix by Younes Baba-Ali 
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Moroccan Mix
Curated by Saout Radio for V&A Museum.
(London, Uk, 2012)

Moroccan Mix is a panorama of Moroccan contemporary audible art, cura-ted by Saout Radio. It is a space to close the eyes and discover a menu of soundscapes, experimental and electroacoustic music, sonic-capsules, and mini-portraits made by artists from different generations and disciplines. It is an invitation to experience new territories and new moments through the act of listening.

Artists: Mehdi Ahoudig, Mustapha Akrim, Younes Atbane, Zouheir Atbane, Meryem Benm’Barek, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Mohamed El Baz, Mounir Fatmi, Simohammed Fettaka, Chourouk Hriech, Amal Laala, Mohamed Laouli.


Change, Mohamed Laouli, Moroccan Mix

The Sunday Revolution, 2011, 5’36’’
The Sunday Revolution is a sound creation which mixes a recording of the call to prayer with a call for change, in the wake of the Arab Spring. As the neffar blows on an instrument, he calls the faithful men to gather. Folk music is heard, a man in the crowd calls for change, it’s a call to condemn corruption. The music starts up again, in the background this same man cries out his dissatisfaction, to which the men and women applaud. The feeling of dissatisfaction is unanimous; but change can only be initiated by the individual. One always responds to a call, to come together in the spirit of gregarity.
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Moroccan Mix
Curated by Saout Radio for V&A Museum.
(London, Uk, 2012)

Moroccan Mix is a panorama of Moroccan contemporary audible art, cura-ted by Saout Radio. It is a space to close the eyes and discover a menu of soundscapes, experimental and electroacoustic music, sonic-capsules, and mini-portraits made by artists from different generations and disciplines. It is an invitation to experience new territories and new moments through the act of listening.

Artists: Mehdi Ahoudig, Mustapha Akrim, Younes Atbane, Zouheir Atbane, Meryem Benm’Barek, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Mohamed El Baz, Mounir Fatmi, Simohammed Fettaka, Chourouk Hriech, Amal Laala, Mohamed Laouli.


The Sunday Revolution, Simohammed Fettaka, Moroccan Mix

How does it sound ?,  2012, 6’24’’
Ilyas, a young 23 year-old Afghan refugee, ex- plores his memories to answer the ques- tions: what is the most striking sonic memory he has of his country? And, which memory re- mains with him most strongly from his arrival in Belgium? Employing a documentary approach, HOW DOES IT SOUND explores sonic memo- ry through the theme of exile. Participation is a key element to this project in that it enables the migrant to recreate his/her sonic memories through simple means: the body, voice and objects.
Directed by Meryem Benm’Barek Sound and Mix by Aïda Merghoub
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Moroccan Mix
Curated by Saout Radio for V&A Museum.
(London, Uk, 2012)

Moroccan Mix is a panorama of Moroccan contemporary audible art, cura-ted by Saout Radio. It is a space to close the eyes and discover a menu of soundscapes, experimental and electroacoustic music, sonic-capsules, and mini-portraits made by artists from different generations and disciplines. It is an invitation to experience new territories and new moments through the act of listening.

Artists: Mehdi Ahoudig, Mustapha Akrim, Younes Atbane, Zouheir Atbane, Meryem Benm’Barek, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Mohamed El Baz, Mounir Fatmi, Simohammed Fettaka, Chourouk Hriech, Amal Laala, Mohamed Laouli.


How Does It Sound, Meryem Benm’Barek, Moroccan Mix

SAOUT RADIO
Web-radio on contemporary audible art.
Founded in Morocco in 2012 by Younes Baba-Ali and Anna Raimondo.

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Saout Radio is a platform and a web-radio dealing with sound and radio art, mostly raising from all over Maghreb, Africa and the Middle-East. As sound can easily travel across boundaries and does not need a visa, Saout Radio represents the space between the local and the international, the FM radio and the public soundscape, the virtual and the physical. Saout Radio reunites sound works of diverse genres, destined to be broadcast throughout fm radios and internationally diffused or shown in a variety of spaces for diverse audiences. In doing so, Saout Radio works toward promoting a dialogue in the sonic art field with a post-colonialist approach, encouraging a south-south dialogue in sonic arts and an international exchange between people and structures.
Acting as an educational project as well, Saout Radio is also a  meta-radiophonic place where uses of sound for artistic purposes are shared through workshops, itinerant listening sessions and debates.
Saout Radio is not about “sound for sound’s sake”. In its philosophy, sound is rather interpreted as both a physical and social tool, able to create new possibilities, to suggest movements, to generate a public dialogue, to contaminate the urban space or to be an intimate mirror.
Radio art and sound art  are interpreted here as a way to exlpore, experiment and expand aesthetic possibilities, but also as a way to create and diffuse knowledge.
Saout Radio is a space in where artists, academics, curators, cultural actors and the public are invited to participate to generate an international community of listeners.

Team:
Artistic Directors: Younes Baba-Ali & Anna Raimondo
Production and logistics: Francesca Masoero
International Relations: Abbas Nokhasteh

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