Composer Matthieu Guillin will be performing two sound pieces created in collaboration with Abdessamad El Montassir: Galb’Achalay (2023), on show in the exhibition at Bétonsalon, and Al Amakine (2020). He will then perform his composition Micro-Shock (2022).

Performance programme:
Galb’Achalay, 2023, sound piece 5.1, 24’
Composition: Matthieu Guillin; Poetry: Badi Wel M’hamed Salem; Voices: Wel Sidi Coproduction: DRAC Occitanie, Maison Salvan, Studio éole, La Biennale Toulouse
Composed from poems from the Sahara, Galb’Achalay is a sound performance that borrows from the little-known songs and stories of the Sahara while drawing on its architectural forms and ruins, to open up an unprecedented gap that allows a dominated history to emerge and unfold.

Al Amakine, 2020 8.1, sound piece, 11’
Composition: Matthieu Guillin; Voice: Wel Sidi Coproduction: Le Cube – independent art room, Chroniques platform coordinated by SECONDE NATURE and ZINC and the gmem-CNCM-Marseille
Al Amakine revives the micro-histories and non-material archives of the Sahara in southern Morocco, which have been rendered invisible. Transmitted orally by local populations in a poetic language, these testimonies recount important political, cultural and social events that took place in this geographical area and constitute essential historiographical material.

Matthieu Guillin, Micro-Shock, 2022, 8’
Inspired by the theories of Canadian philosopher Brian Massumi and his concept of micro-shock, this sound piece looks at the micro-perceptions and interruptions that populate our daily lives, the moments of daydreaming necessary for assimilation, fantasies, reorientations, hope and projections, with their faint nature and slightly psychedelic sweetness.