Ondes from Bahrain

AF Bahrain

Alliance Française is delighted to release our podcast dedicated to Franco-Bahraini cultural creation. This podcast will be an opportunity to showcase local and francophone artists through interviews and original creations, in line with the cultural program of the Alliance Française and its partners.

Episodes

  1. 03/09/2021

    Episode 2 : Digital November

    This episode of our podcast "Waves from Bahrain" is dedicated to our Digital November programmation. This episode features an original and exclusive work by the Bahraini artist Kayan Music, followed by an interview with the French artist Kaspar Ravel. Novembre Numérique (Digital November) is an invitation to question the place of digital cultures in our societies, to increase the awareness of the general public to the new uses of digital technologies, while discovering the richness and diversity of digital creations, from media art to new forms of digital narratives, from immersive theater to interactive music, etc. It underlines the commitment of the Institut français and the Alliance Française Bahrain to facilitating the general public’s access to new technologies, to showcasing the strong diversity of French creations, to building long-lasting partnerships with Bahrain professionals and to enabling international collaborations between artists, professionals and the audience Kayan is a DJ, producer and musician. Her life experiences are compiled into the productions and performances that she creates today. Every Kayan's live performance is different, unique and original as she blends organic grooves, soundscapes, beats,remixes, tracks, with a wide variety of samples combined with heavy basslines that spontaneously activate the dance floor. Kayan is a sonic journey that interweaves human emotion and through sounds and mixed media, composing and performing live with layers of sparking electronic music creating hypnotic melodies and harmonies that resonate with the crowd. Kaspar Ravel He is a new media artist off and online curator. Coming from the subcultures of art the internet, he studies computer science and theatre at Sorbonne universities to explore the surreal poetic politics of data today. As a DIY hacker, he navigates through technological innovations in order to dissect, understand and alter current standards. The aim being to reappropriate them as spaces of practice expérimentale and integrate alternative ideologies into them. Often working on analogies between physical and digital bodies, it establishes popular languages aimed at demystifying technology - questioning interface concepts - and exposing virtual realities co-existing with the world we live in. Enjoy

    14 min
  2. 03/09/2021

    Episode 1 : Loving 2

    The Alliance française de Bahreïn is proud to reveal the first episode of its podcast "Waves from Bahrain" dedicated to French and Bahraini culture. This podcast will be an opportunity to highlight local and French-speaking artists through interviews and original creations. Following the release of the collection of short stories Ar Xudi and the short story Loving 2 by Bruno Lemoine, we decided to create this new format for cultural creation and diffusion. Our first episode is dedicated to two artists: Hasan Hujairi, Bahraini composer and writer and Bruno Lemoine, French writer. It is the meeting of text and sound, the news of anticipation and electronic music. Hasan Hujairi (b. 1982) is a Bahraini artist, composer, and writer. His work often explores the notion of the outsider, confronting (historiographic) superstructures, and the nature of constructing narratives within time. He holds a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) in music composition from Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea), where he researched reorienting the narrative associated with the maverick composer tradition to be more inclusive of composers working outside the Western classical music tradition. Bruno Lemoine is currently a teacher. He has given courses in French as a foreign language in Burgundy, Saône-et-Loire and Paris. His work in literature revolves around the notion of heteronomy dear to the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Bruno LEMOINE is a "multiple name" whose biography changes according to publications. He is currently writing a non-fiction about the American artist and "multiple name" Emmett GROGAN .

    20 min

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Alliance Française is delighted to release our podcast dedicated to Franco-Bahraini cultural creation. This podcast will be an opportunity to showcase local and francophone artists through interviews and original creations, in line with the cultural program of the Alliance Française and its partners.