This sound piece is a short audio documentary on the various aspects of Judeo-Arab culture, which was broadcasted on a loop in the last room of the exhibition. Music, exile, joy, humor, language… This mix combines, in a memorial approach, musical extracts from great Jewish singers from the Arab world with historical sound archives and family and relatives interviews. Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 2021-2022
We Make Noise – France (2021 – 2024)
In 2021, Sharouh and Lola Ajima created together the French chapter of the international association We Make Noise (former Beats By Girlz), an NGO that works on womxn empowerment through music tech. https://www.instagram.com/wemakenoise.france/
Original soundtrack for Je Viens – documentary, 2021
Music composition and production for Je Viens, a documentary by Cecilia Galli about a crew of contemporary dancers in the island of Mayotte
Original Soundtrack for Yalla – short movie Winner of the Premios Forqué 2021
Original Soundtrack for Yalla, a short movie by Carlo D’ursi. Produced by Potenza Producciones and Vaca Films, with the collaboration of Gobierno de España (ICAA), Programa Media, Amnistía Internacional and Abycine. Winner of the Premios Forqué 2021 as the best short movie.
Composition and production : Sharouh
Ney (oriental flute) : Kaveh Sarvarian
Beats By Girlz workshops – Madrid 2020
Beats By Girlz is a non-traditional, creative and educational music technology curriculum and community template designed to empower women, girls and gender expansive folks to engage with music technology. We organized several BBG workshops in under-resourced areas of Madrid throughout 2020.
Sound Design for Afro Hair Futurity Podcasts, 2020
Afro Hair Futurity is a project by Alix Bizet that was presented in the Self Design Academy of Eindhoven, Holland. It includes a series of podcasts comprising interviews of an artist, designer, filmmaker, anthropologists and trichologist reflecting on their knowledge, personal and professional experiences of Afro Hair. More generally this work aims to be a starting point to rethink Afro hair in a post-colonial context and as a performance of black futurity.
Creation and Sound recording : Alix Bizet Studio
Mixing and Sound Design : Sharouh
With : Casey Elisha, Rambisayi Marufu, Ebuni Ajiduah, George Okello, Farrah Riley Gray, Adom Philogene Heron, Cynthia Lusilu
Music and Sound Design · Afro Hair Futurity podcasts – Alix Bizet Studio
Remix of Habiba Msika – Habibi Lawel, 2020
Remix of Habiba Msika, a Jewish Tunisian singer of the 1920’s. A free woman, openly bisexual, she smashes all the taboos of the Tunisian society in the early XXth century with her songs about female desire and sexuality. This remix aims at reactivating the memory of the beautiful repertoire of this inspiring figure.
Dj set for Institut du Monde Arabe, 2020
Special selection of Judeo-Arab music, Mizrahi and all the different forms of musical syncretism of the Jewish and Arab worlds, from Tangier to Baghdad. Arabic Sound System x Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 2020
Dj set for Radio Primavera Sound, 2020
Electronic music workshop for women, HerBeats project, 2020
Teaching the basics of electronic music production to a predominantly female audience, with HerBeats project, in DJP Music School, Madrid 2020. These workshops aim at promoting the presence of women, trans or non-binary people on the electronic music scene and at working on female empowerment by providing the tools to start producing your own music.