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.
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
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.
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
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.
Acuario Barcelona, Sin. is a creation by Move, Arte para todos. Aquario Barcelona is a community dance/theatre project organized by Move, Arte para todos, selected in the 2018 call for the Art of Change ”la Caixa” program that has managed to unite people from different cultures through the so-called “living arts”. Musical composition and production by Sharouh
