Saout Africa(S) is part of Savvy Funk
an iteration of every time a ear di soun’,
the Documenta 14 radio program
JUNE 17 BROADCAST :
Saout Africa(S) Manifesto
live with Younes Baba-Ali and Anna Raimondo
launching saout africa(s), english
younes baba-ali
born in 1986 in oujda (ma)
lives and works in brussels (be)
and casablanca (ma)
anna raimondo
born in 1981 in naples (it)
lives in brussels (be)
and works internationally
+ COWS AND THE FULA PEOPLE
arte radio, 2013, 7’27”
soundscape
Felix Blume
born in 1984 in france
lives and works in mexico
a magic sound from mali, africa, where
the fula people herd and worship their
cattle. when wet season is coming, the
young fula people from mali leave for
transhumance during six months with most
of the herd. cows cross the river niger
through west. in the village, women
work to feed their family, while men
look after a couple of dairy cows. fula
people lives simultaneously with the
animal. he accompanies his everyday life
with songs and prayers. the legend tells
god first created the cow and then fula
people to go along with the animal and
to protect him.
+ WEND PAANGA D
2016, 13’36”
drone, sound archive and
english sampling
François Larini
born in 1975 in monaco
lives and works in nice (fr)
wend paanga d comes exclusively from
materials recorded on cassettes from
january to february 2000, in the north
of burkina faso (today an inaccessible
region, because of the terror threat).
these recordings contain hours of oral
archives in mooré (language of the mossi
people, burkina’s main ethnic group)
relating local mythology, dancing masks
and traditional political institutions.
larini has kept them ever since,
without any specific idea about their
usage. retrospectively, through delay
and feedback processing, they suddenly
become the testimony of the archive’s
fragility and the loss of knowledge we
are now unable to access…
+ KURT ALI,
2012, 8’48”
sonic collage
Blenno Die Wurstbrucke
born in 1981 in esfahan (ir) - lives and works in paris (fr)
diewurstbrucke.blogspot.de
the piece was created in two stages. after his travels, he was able to create some
sort of musical tools, sound and visual “postcards” you can play with, and add a
bit of his subjectivity. hand-made postcards becoming instruments created with
sound and image fragments, either produced or found in situ. he has never been to
morocco but he imagined a sound postcard, made with sounds created and recorded in
berlin and malaysia.