Sound Development City
Artist Expedition 2016
�Madrid–Casablanca
September 6–25, 2016
Bernadette La Hengst
Café Europa
Documentation
About Sound Development City
Sound Development City is a three-week artist expedition to two annually changing cities. The expedition crew
consists of a dozen artists coming from different geographical, cultural and artistic backgrounds. They are selected
through an open call for projects that is geared towards
artists who distinguish themselves through a processoriented approach to their work, their curiosity and an explorative mindset.
Sound Development City is a place for artistic research and concepts which benefit from being on the road
and probe urban environments as sites of both playfulness
and social involvement. Here, working theses can be exam­
ined, new project ideas or forms of expression can be tried
out and bold visions can be put into practice. The expedition offers freedom of choice and action, without the pressure of measurable results — a strong focus is placed on
process and on daring ideas.
While the expedition’s target cities serve as resonating urban space, as work material, sources of inspiration and playgrounds for public presentations, the expedition creates a fertile soil for exchange, reflection and
cooperation. Sound Development City is also an inward
journey to personal thought and work patterns, which are
challenged and maybe even realigned through the experience of the unknown and the unpredictable.
Sound Development City is a project by Sound
Development, a non-commercial, independent and privately funded cultural initiative based in Zurich, Switzer-
land. The expedition format was developed in collaboration with Heller Enterprises, a Swiss agency for cultural
projects. Sound Development City is financed by Sound
Development and put into practice by Heller Enterprises.
Artist Expedition 2016
On September 6, 2016, a group of twelve artists from ten
countries, four team members, one expedition writer and
one radio editor embarked on an expedition to Madrid
and Casablanca. For the first time in its five-year history,
the Sound Development City expedition ventured beyond the confines of Europe and into Africa.
The artists were selected out of a total of 424 applicants from 66 countries by an international jury consisting
of Hassan Darsi (La Source du Lion, Casablanca), Esther
Eppstein (Message Salon, Zurich), Martin Heller (Heller Enterprises, Zurich), Gianmarco Marchetta (Sound
Development, Zurich) and Gema Melgar (Matadero Madrid/El Ranchito, Madrid). The evaluation was based on
artistic quality and originality, feasibility of realisation as
well as the research-based approach of the project proposals. The applicants’ inquisitive personality was also taken
into consideration.
The twelve artists formed a heterogeneous group,
coming from such diverse disciplines as animation film,
dance, intermedia art, sound art and music. During Sound
Development City, they worked on ten projects that followed a wide range of subjects and narrative lines.
The first seven days were spent in Madrid, the last
eight in Casablanca. The journey in-between, which the
artists undertook individually by land and by sea, from
one continent to the other, was an integral part of the expedition; it served as a shift in the working process and offered time for reflection and further research.
In Madrid, the expedition set up its headquarters
at the artist-run space Nadie, Nunca, Nada, No. — referred to as NNNN — and in Casablanca at the school
and art space La Parallèle. In Madrid, two of the artists
had the chance to make use of a gallery space, La Juan; the
expedition’s participants also worked with the infrastructure of the self-managed cultural centre Tabacalera.These
venues served as workspaces and places for presentations,
rehearsals and workshops but also — especially in Casablanca — as oases in the midst of foreign lands.
In both cities, the expedition was supported by
dedicated local teams — fairy godmothers — that provided access to the local art scene, collaborators, hidden corners and vibrant spots. Through them, the group was welcomed with open arms, was immediately introduced to
cultural peculiarities and had access to the cities’ rough
edges and abysses, sweet spots and beauty.
Sound Development City 2016 was strongly
impacted by the paralyzing heat of Madrid and the powerful cultural diversity of Casablanca. But more than that,
it was each artist’s single-minded dedication that formed
the expedition and made it a rich, unforgettable and successful adventure.
From the very beginning the twelve participants
overwhelmed us with their openness towards the format
and the unfamiliar working situation, and especially towards each other. They arrived with verve, curiosity and a
readiness to take risks, and they preserved this spirit until
the last moment. They engaged with the previously unknown cities and their inhabitants, looking for a breeding
ground for their projects and research, which they found
again and again in various forms. And they endured the
unknown and the “not knowing” and adapted their concepts to become reality step by step by coming up with
new ideas, sensoria and tools.
Through it all, the expedition grew organically to
become a dense experiential space and a shared creative
journey.The agenda, which had purposely been left blank
from the beginning, was steadily filled with spontaneous
public as well as internal activities that peaked on the
second last day in Casablanca: during the Expedition Discoveries, all participants presented insights into their
working processes.
On September 26, Sound Development City end­
ed on the rooftop terrace of La Parallèle in Casablanca
in a comfortable temperature and with emotional words.
A group of unknown individuals that had started a journey on an extremely hot day in Madrid had become a community of like-minded people saying goodbye with heavy
hearts.
Documentation
To document these — sometimes fleeting — moments,
thoughts and artistic experiments, the Sound Development City website served as a multi-voiced logbook by
channelling content from various authors and sources:
texts, sketches, snippets, photos, sound pieces, radio interviews and videos added up to become a collective expedition diary.
The artists documented their work, their expe­
riences and reflections and offered insight into ongoing
processes.
Author Uwe Lützen accompanied the group as an
expedition writer. His mission was to watch and listen, to
travel with the group and to document the artists’ work.
During the expedition he published notes, articles and
personal observations on the Sound Development City
website, which after the journey he processed into an essay
that can be read in this book.
The Sound Development City team created a daily
photo journal. Radio interviews with the artists and with
local cultural activists were produced together with artist
and 2014 expedition participant Andreas Oskar Hirsch.
These were broadcast on the expedition’s online 24/7
web radio, the Gap Station.
Last but not least, the expedition was accompanied by local photographers Jonay PMatos in Madrid and
Zakaria Wakrim in Casablanca, both of whom captured
the expedition’s atmosphere and the artists’ work through
their lenses.
The content found in the following pages comes
mostly from these sources, while certain reflections, Uwe
Lützen’s essay and Andreas Oskar Hirsch’s travelogue
were added after the fact.
Participants & Projects
Dan Allon
Visiting the Ghosts of Mrs Swissa
Vincent Charlebois
Nodes
Bernadette La Hengst
Café Europa
Sasha Kurmaz
Untitled
Ari-Pekka Leinonen
I Am Helping My Friend to Think — My Friend Is Helping Me to Idle
Luka & Jela
We’ll Leave Pieces of Madrid on Our Road
to Casablanca
Brent Meistre
Draad Trek (Pull Wire)
Agnieszka Pędziwiatr & Rafał Pierzyński
DIVAS
Youmna Saba
1.2 Seconds Ago — Travelling Notes
Chris Wood
Walking with Satellites
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Bernadette
La Hengst
Café Europa
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Traveling backwards along the migration route of recent decades, Bernadette La Hengst opens her mobile Café Europa in
Madrid, Casablanca and in-between, asking people to pay for
their drinks in the currency of a love song.
Is Europe still the promised land, or is there a better perspective waiting in Casablanca? Inspired by the Café Américain
from the film Casablanca, the artist will collect melodies and
lyrics about love and visions between Orient and Occident to fill
her Café Europa jukebox with future Eurabian love songs. Each
love song can be defined as a love song for a person or a love song
about the city the contributor is based in or the city they long for.
Songs about home in general, or about the absence of love.
About the right to love the one you choose, the right to fail, to
leave, the right to have children or to be homosexual. The mobile
Café Europa is an open stage, a recording studio and a café where
water, tea and music will be served.
I want to learn something from the world, and I want the world
to learn something from art.
Excerpt Gap Station interview
My main topics are social issues and utopian ideas. It has to be
linked with my personal emotions. But it’s not important that
it be autobiographical. I also tell stories about other people. So
I would call myself a political songwriter. Even if that word is
very old-fashioned.
Excerpt Gap Station interview
between Orient and Occident. This is the first song in process;
other verses will follow …
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Wherever I’m Going
I’m driving my car with my Café Europa,
Oh, where is my heart, I travelled so far,
Away from all lovers that I left behind,
You’re not like the others, oh, I changed my mind,
’Cause love is coming and love is growing,
As long as we’re knowing:
You’re always with me,
Wherever I’m going.
I went from Madrid down to Casablanca,
I’m searching for love songs in my car,
But life is a desert when you are away,
I sing like a stray cat, at night and by day,
Oh, love is coming and love is growing,
As long as we’re knowing:
You’re always with me,
Wherever I’m going.
Music & Lyrics Bernadette La Hengst
Guitar Sergio Kropotkin
Bass Dha Ni Fdz
Drums Dan Allon
Voice & Guitar Bernadette La Hengst
Recorded at
Fantompower Studio Madrid
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My T-shirts and bags are here. Great! Almost ready to go.
Posted 3.9.2016
Tomorrow I will start my trip to Madrid and Casablanca to open
my mobile Café Europa out of my car and collect love songs­10
In Madrid I opened the café in two public squares that were very
different from each other. One was full of young people, kids,
street musicians — comparable to a square you might see in
Hamburg or Berlin … It was easy to get the people involved.
They were not scared because they might know art projects like
that in the urban space, or maybe because some of them were11
street musicians, I don’t know. So I asked them. Some of them
sat at my table, got some tea and ate cakes and played some songs.
There was one very special girl, Clara. She came with her
ukulele. I saw her passing by, and I said, “Hey, come on. Let’s
have a seat. Let’s have a chat.” And then I found out she was fourteen years old. She played the ukulele very well, and she had a
beautiful voice. And I asked her, “What do you think about love?
Are you in a relationship? Have you been in love?” And then she
introduced me to her girlfriend, who was with her, fourteen
years old as well. So that was their first love story. It was really
special. And then I started to write a song with her. I asked her,
“What do you think about love? What does love mean to you?
Is there a difference between having a relationship with a girl in
Madrid and having a relationship with a boy?” and so on. So we
started to discuss, and then we wrote a song together. We created a very familiar and intimate atmosphere in this public space.
That was quite a good start for the whole project.
Excerpt Gap Station interview
I asked her questions. “What is love for you? Just say a sentence,
like ‘Love is like this, like that.’” And she said, “Love is freedom,
love is art.”
Excerpt Gap Station interview
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Love Is Freedom and Art 1
Love is like a sunset in summer,
Hand in hand walking through Malasaña,
Drawing you along the way,
Where I got to know you.
Love is freedom and art.
It’s just because I looked at you once.
I want to kiss you anywhere,
I don’t care about the others,
You are my Lady Madrid,
Together we will be the greatest hit.
Love is freedom and art.
It’s just because I looked at you once.
Voice & Lyrics Clara Martin Gasco
Music Bernadette La Hengst
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I wrote another song together with two Spanish girls; the chorus was, “How does love sound in Madrid? How does love sound
after the crisis?” And then, “It’s in the heat, in the colour, in the
heat, in the colour of Chamberí” — that’s a district. I asked some
rappers to freestyle in the verses, and I invited this wonderful
man called Julio, who helped us get contacts and organise all the
things at Tabacalera, an independent collective cultural centre
in Madrid. He is a very big talent in freestyle rapping, or slam
poetry. He and two friends of his.
Excerpt Gap Station interview
How Does Love Sound in Madrid? 2
Bernadette How does love, love, love sound in Madrid?
I’m living in the heat, in the colour, in the heat, in the colour
of Legazpi.
How does love, love, love sound after the crisis?
I’m living in the heat, in the colour, in the heat, in the colour
of Chamberí.
Julio Cubillos That’s how love begins. Upside down.
Here we are in Lavapiés.
Can you tell me, what’s going on?
When we talk about love,
What is love, what comes after love?
Do you want pain? I don’t want.
I want to be here and live like a stranger.
I want to be relaxed, I want to help.
I want to do, I want to play.
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I want to go out, I want with you,
I want to be your friend, I want to make love,
I want to be with you, I want to be part of everything.
Be conquered. I want to be conquered by your tenderness.
I want to fly with all rockets.
I want to do. I don’t want any rockets.
I want to be with all of you, I want to be with the people.
What do you want? What you do is what you feel.
So, tell me, what is love?
Bernadette, what is love?
Bernadette How does love, love, love sound in Madrid?
I’m living in the heat, in the colour, in the heat, in the colour
of Legazpi.
How does love, love, love sound after the crisis?
I’m living in the heat, in the colour, in the heat, in the colour
of Chamberí.
David La SweetVie Without hurry the days become useful,
step by step.
I am walking through Madrid, without a destination, no matter which road I take,
I stroke your skin, I miss your bitterness,
The grey smoke, that one needs like a religion, calms
me down,
Member of smiling lips.
They say that eyes are made for crying, but I prefer
to live a happy life,
I appreciate myself while I get to know me.
Not without listening, I imagine it now.
Here comes not the strongest but the most
faithful one.
From here to there: to avoid that the wound
disappears and the pain remains.
And what remains after all is the desert of
open hearts,
The source of delight, and I don’t feel anything,
The growing, living time is vanishing,
And what do you get out of complaints?
To learn from the serious and to take it easy,
And don’t ask for explanations.
One doesn’t know much and imagines a lot.
But in the end the truth fucks the lies,
The water springs from your fountains,
I was fundamentally shipwrecked,
I played something by Dinda.
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This guy was a romantic.
Love. The common classic is to suffer from love.
It would be utopian to believe that I am the only one
who fucks you,
How does love sound? That’s how love sounds!
Bernadette How does love, love, love sound in Madrid?
I’m living in the heat, in the colour, in the heat, in the colour
of Legazpi.
How does love, love, love sound after the crisis?
I’m living in the heat, in the colour, in the heat, in the colour
of Chamberí.
Wilson Mine. This is my world. Mine.
Full of triumphs and failings about goodness
and sins.
This is my world.
Strange. Odd. Full of humanity, peace and
consternations.
This is my world.
Bernadette How does love, love, love sound in Madrid?
I’m living in the heat, in the colour, in the heat, in the colour
of Legazpi.
How does love, love, love sound after the crisis?
I’m living in the heat, in the colour, in the heat, in the colour
of Chamberí.
Voice & Lyrics Julio Cubillos, David La SweetVie, Wilson,
Bernadette La Hengst
Music Bernadette La Hengst
Drums Dan Allon
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When I write love songs, it’s not only about love. Most of the
time, they are linked to something different. I sometimes hide
the message in a love song, so that you listen to a song two or
three times, and then the third time you understand it’s not just
about having sex with someone, but it’s about the integration
discourse as well.
I try to move the people with my songs and with my music,
but at the same time the lyrics are contradictory, and they want
something. They want to change something in the mind of my
audience.
Excerpt Gap Station interview
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I had the opportunity and good fortune to be in a studio in
Madrid with two Madrilenian musicians who played sitar and
a Greek guitar called bouzouki. And Dan Allon, the artist from
Israel, he played the drums. We recorded two songs. It’s a lot of
material that I’ve already collected. I just have to find out what,
in the end, it will be? Will there be some new songs for my next
album? Will I do an album, my trip from Madrid to Casablanca, called Café Europa? I don’t know yet.
Excerpt Gap Station interview
This is a snippet from my recording session at Fantompower
Studio in Madrid on September 12, 2016.Thanks to the fantastic
Dha Ni Fdz on sitar, Sergio Kropotkin from the band Melange
on bouzouki, to the amazing Dan Allon on drums and Enrique
Borrajeros for engineering.
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¿Cómo suena el amor en Madrid? 3
My concert in front of my Café Europa at Tabacalera in Madrid
on September 9, 2016. Gracias to Julio and Clara for your amazing voices. You are my number ones of Madrid!
Posted 11.9.2016
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On our way in the mothership to the south coast of Spain on
Avenida de Europa, where I found a tattered EU flag blowing17
in the wind … Hope to open my Café Europa tonight in Los
Caños de Meca.
Posted 14.9.2016
In Tangier, Tarik, who transported the technical equipment of
Sound Development City, offers to let us stay the night at his
family’s place. Tarik’s father is the only one who speaks French;
the women speak only Arabic, and one son a bit of English. It’s
crazy how far you can get talking with your hands and feet. Unfortunately, the handful of sentences of Modern Standard Arabic that I spent months practicing with my Syrian friend are no
help at all here. But there is the universal language of music,
after all. After we’ve feasted on Moroccan delicacies, I play a few
songs on my guitar. The ladies of the house sing along enthusiastically — they seem to be especially enamoured of the word
“Verlust” (loss), and they also join in on “Nein, nein, nein”. My
Café Europa is open for business, and I ask them to sing me a
love song.They belt out, “I am difficult, but love me just the same!”
Finally arrived in Casablanca yesterday. Now I’m walking through
the city, experiencing a bit of culture shock, because it’s so different. But in the end it’s just a question of perspective. Who is
different from whom? Just saw some boys jumping into the sea
in front of the mosque, and I found Rick’s Café, the Café Améri­
cain — the inspiration for my Café Europa.
Posted 17.9.2016
In Casablanca, everything starts shifting. I’m shattered, rattled
and amazed. The street grime of the medina is sticking to me
from the tips of my toes to the ends of my hair. The exhaust
fumes wear me down. The air smells of urine, like after the
Schlagermove pop festival in Hamburg. Glue-sniffing beggars
sleeping next to mountains of trash — maybe they’ve lost their
sense of smell.
Cultural riches and poverty are so close together here.
Excerpt from a travelogue for Der Freitag
Excerpt from a travelogue for Der Freitag
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Beauty in the Dirt 4
Ich suche Schönheit im Dreck
Und Poesie in Boultek.
Ich suche Zauber im Stau
Und Melodien im Müll,
Utopien im Lärm
Und Liebe im Kreisverkehr.
I am looking for beauty in the dirt
And poetry in the mud.
Melodies in the jam,
And miracles in the trash.
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Utopian ideas
And love in parking areas.
La poésie du raffut,
La beauté de la rue.
Un miracle obscure dans la nuit
Et une mélodie dans le bruit.
Je recherche une utopie
Et l’amour au Boulevard Rachidi.
Brit nterrem fessdaa
Nhess bel hob felmedina
Brit nterrem fessdaa
Nhess bel hob felmedina
Wahye yallah ya moulana
Wahye yallah ya moulana
Music, Voice & Lyrics Ibrahim Bennani, Bernadette La Hengst
Guitar Ibrahim Bennani
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Unfortunately, I’m unable to find any female musicians in Casa­
blanca — women seem to be as invisible in the music scene as
they are in the cafés, where I’m the only woman drinking tea in
the evenings.
I open my Café Europa in the parking lot of the Technopark shopping mall in front of Boultek, Centre de musiques
actuelles. A heavy metal band plays Moroccan blues with me.
Sadly, the passing girls are all a bit shy; instead, Ibrahim confidently plays his indie rock songs for me.
Excerpt from a travelogue for Der Freitag
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Back at our headquarters at La Parallèle, jazz singer Yacine tells
me about the revolutionary poetess and singer Kharboucha, who
led the revolt against the feudal lords at the beginning of the last
century and who, after the revolution was crushed, was buried
alive by the king. Yacine plays one of her love songs for me — a very
difficult rhythm, but a wonderfully tragic tune. I respond with
my own new idea for a song in the Moroccan 6/8 time: “Gheda
inchallah, sa ejido al hob fieh Casablanca. Tomorrow, God willing, I’ll find love in Casablanca.” Yacine immediately writes an
additional verse and sings like an Oriental musical star. Reading
from his little notebook, the political slam poet Hamza raps
along in such a weirdly gentle way about the hardness of the city
that I have the impression of understanding every single word.
Excerpt from a travelogue for Der Freitag
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Last night at Le Vertigo in Casablanca. Cool venue. Shukran
and merci to Mss Ati (Hamza), Saï YaCine (Yacine), Bra Ben
(Ibrahim) and merci to Boultek, Centre de musiques actuelles
EAC for giving me the opportunity to open my Café Europa at
Technopark! Incroyable place!
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Saturday, on the last day of the expedition, I make my dream
come true and play a concert on the balcony of my room in Hotel Central in Casablanca! It was beautiful to sing with Yacine,
Hamza and Ibrahim. Shukran for al hob fieh Casablanca! Now
I am back in Berlin, and I miss you all already …
Posted 26.9.2016
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Gheda Inchallah 5
Bernadette La Hengst Tomorrow, God willing,
Tomorrow, God willing,
I’ll find love in Casablanca.
Mss Ati They asked me why, I don’t know how,
She made me live in her, though many don’t like her.
We got lost in her, many don’t respect her,
Twenty-four years old and still life is a mess.
I cried, I suffered, I died, I lived, I left,
And then I’m back even though we are suffocating,
We found breath between up and down.
Saï YaCine I don’t want another land for me but this land,
Even if the streets are small
And the road is getting smaller.
It’s the hearts that are white, not the streets,
And I’m melting in her ocean in the sunset.
Bernadette La Hengst Tomorrow, God willing,
Tomorrow, God willing,
I’ll find love in Casablanca.
Mss Ati Street by street you live, street by street you stifle.
We travelled far away and we got back,
We still love her and we don’t want nothing more,
Even if they ruined her past,
What we lost still can come back so that the image
is perfect.
I’ll never say that I feel comfortable in the city,
But I’m still looking for what they hide from her.
There are things more than money
That made my grandfather move to Casa
I’m not shy if they called me a villager,
Because it’s the origin before they built the twin.
Between the formal and the slang speech
I grow up, even if the sun is hot.
Saï YaCine I don’t want another land for me but this land,
Even if the streets are small
And the road is getting smaller.
It’s the hearts that are white, not the streets,
And I’m melting in her ocean in the sunset.
Mss Ati In the slum central, the sweat of the walls became
my ink.
I went back to the house where I was born.
The noise of the fans every Sunday,
People talk about the money.
I’m fed up, I left everything
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From the reality I escaped.
I want to know why I hate her,
Even if my life will pass and I will grow up,
Even if her night disturbs the silence,
Makes you forget the thieves, the dirt and the smoke.
All of this is scary,
But people come back, it’s a money machine.
I will keep loving her and look for the string or at least
a piece of it.
Bernadette La Hengst Tomorrow, God willing,
Tomorrow, God willing,
I’ll find love in Casablanca.
Voice & Lyrics Saï YaCine, Mss Ati, Bernadette La Hengst
Music Bernadette La Hengst
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Estoy viviendo en el calor, en
el color, en el calor, en el color
de Chamberi.
David Babativa Sin prisa, los días se
vuelven útiles, paso a paso.
Estoy caminando por Madrid, sin
destino, sin importar el camino
que tome,
Acaricio tu piel, extraño tu amargura,
El humo gris, que uno necesita como
una religión, me tranquiliza,
Miembro de labios sonrientes.
Dicen que los ojos están hechos
para llorar pero prefiero vivir una
vida feliz,
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Me aprecio mientras me conozco.
¿Cómo suena el amor en Madrid?
No sin escuchar, lo imagino ahora,
Aquí no viene el más fuerte sino el
Bernadette ¿Cómo suena el amor, el
más fiel.
amor, el amor en Madrid?
Estoy viviendo en el calor, en el color, De aquí para allá: para evitar que la
herida desaparezca y el dolor
en el calor, en el color de Legazpi.
permanezca.
¿Cómo suena el amor, el amor, el
Y lo que queda después de todo es el
amor después de la crisis?
desierto de corazones abiertos,
Estoy viviendo en el calor, en
La fuente del placer, y no siento
el color, en el calor, en el color
nada,
de Chamberi.
El tiempo creciendo, viviendo está
Julio Cubillos Así empieza el amor.
desapareciendo,
Al revés.
¿Y qué consigues con las quejas?
Aquí estamos en Lavapiés
¿Puedes decirme, qué está pasando? Para aprender de lo serio y tomarlo
con calma,
Cuando hablamos del amor
¿Qué es el amor, qué viene después Y no pidas explicaciones,
Uno no sabe mucho y se imagina
del amor?
demasiado.
¿Quieres dolor? Yo no quiero.
Pero al final la verdad se folla a las
Quiero estar aquí y vivir como un
mentiras,
extraño.
Quiero estar relajado, quiero ayudar. El agua brota de tus fuentes,
Yo estaba fundamentalmente
Quiero hacer, quiero jugar.
naufragado,
Quiero salir, quiero contigo,
Quiero ser tu amigo, quiero hacer el Jugué algo por Dinda.
Este tipo era un romántico.
amor,
Amor. El clásico común es sufrir
Quiero estar contigo, quiero ser
parte de todo.
por amor.
Ser conquistado. Quiero ser
Sería utópico creer que soy el único
conquistado por tu ternura.
que te folla,
Quiero volar con todos los cohetes. ¿Cómo suena el amor? ¡Así es como
Quiero hacer. No quiero cohetes.
suena el amor!
Quiero estar con todo de ti, quiero Bernadette ¿Cómo suena el amor, el
estar con la gente.
amor, el amor en Madrid?
¿Qué deseas? Lo que haces es lo que Estoy viviendo en el calor,
sientes.
en el color, en el calor, en el color
Entonces, dime, ¿qué es el amor?
de Legazpi.
Bernadette, ¿qué es el amor?
¿Cómo suena el amor, el amor,
Bernadette ¿Cómo suena el amor, el
el amor después de la crisis?
amor, el amor en Madrid?
Estoy viviendo en el calor, en el
color, en el calor, en el color de
Estoy viviendo en el calor,
Chamberí.
en el color, en el calor, en el color
de Legazpi.
Wilson Mío. Este es mi mundo. Mío.
¿Cómo suena el amor, el amor,
Lleno de triunfos y fracasos sobre la
bondad y los pecados.
el amor después de la crisis?
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Amor es libertad y arte
El amor es un atardecer de verano
Caminar por Malasaña de la mano
Dibujarte por Madrid,
Donde yo te conocí.
Amor es libertad y arte.
Es fruto de un solo mirarte.
Quiero besarte en cualquier lugar
Me dan igual los demás
Eres mi lady Madrid
Juntas seremos el mayor hit.
Amor es libertad y arte.
Es fruto de un solo mirarte.
Este es mi mundo.
Extraño. Raro. Lleno de humanidad,
paz y consternaciones.
Este es mi mundo.
Bernadette ¿Cómo se enamora el amor,
el amor, el amor en Madrid?
Estoy viviendo en el calor, en el color,
en el calor, en el color de Legazpi.
¿Cómo el amor, el amor, el amor
sonido después de la crisis?
Estoy viviendo en el calor, en
el color, en el calor, en el color
de Chamberi.
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How Does Love Sound in Madrid?
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Beauty in the Dirt
I am looking for beauty in filth
And poetry in Boultek.
I am looking for magic in traffic jams
And melodies in garbage,
Utopias in the noise
And love in a roundabout.
I am looking for beauty in the dirt
And poetry in the mud.
Melodies in the jam,
And miracles in the trash.
Utopian ideas
And love in parking areas.
The poetry of the racket,
The beauty of the street.
An obscure miracle in the
night
And a melody in the noise.
I’m looking for a utopia
And love on Boulevard
Rachidi.
I want to get high
in the noise
Feel the love
in the Medina
I want to get high
in the noise
Feel the love
in the Medina
Oh Lord, oh Lord
Oh Lord, oh Lord
rja3t tkhna9na tnafesna mabin lta7t
o lfo9 kay bzaf
zan9a b zan9a kat3ich zan9a b zan9a
katkhna9
saferna b3id w rja3na o mazal
bghinaha o mabghina walou ytzad
wakha telfo madiha mazal yrje3
dakchy li kan bech sora t9ad
ma3mry ngol merta7 fiha
mais ba9i kan9aleb 3la dakchy li
khbawh 3liha
kayna chi haja men ghir serf li khlat
jedi yeskan fiha
kalmat 3roubi makan7chemch
menha
7it hadek l’asel 9bal ma twin yetbna
ma bin lhedra bzaf o lhadra f l3amer
kbart akha chams 7ara
f karyan central 3rag l9asdir bel ktaba
khlani tkbat
rja3t ldar fin tzadit
sda3 ljomhour kolla 7ed
bnadem kayhdar 3la lflouss
safi 3aft khalit l7za9 kamel
men lwa9i3 hrabt
bghit n3ref 3lach kankraha wakha
ghatdouz hyati o ghankoun kbart
wakha lilha kay9ayi skat kaynassi
shafra w lwssakh w dkan
dakchy kaykalekh
bnadem kayrja3 fiha makina
l intaj sarf
wakha hakdak ghanb9a n9aleb 3la
lkhit wakha nl9a meno ghy tarf
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Gheda Inchallah
Mss Ati sawlouni 3lach ma3raftch
kifach
hiya li 3aychatni wastha wakha bzaf
makay7mlhach
twaderna wastha bzaf khayb bzaf
maki7tarmnach
24 3am w ba9a l7ayat mat9adatch
bkit 9assit tlaft rja3t mat 7yit mchit
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Biography
Bernadette La Hengst DE
*1967
Bernadette La Hengst, based in Berlin,
is an electro-pop musician, singer-songwriter and theatre director with a passion
for political and social issues and utopian
ideas. She was singer and guitarist for the
Hamburg pop-punk girl band Die Braut
haut ins Auge (1990–2000). Her current
solo album, her fifth, is called Save the
World with This Melody. Since 2004 she
has developed many participative theatre
projects as a musician and director, and
she is an expert in founding impromptu
choirs everywhere.
�lahengst.com
Sound Development
Sound Development is an independent
cultural initiative based in Zurich. It was
founded by Nia Schmidheiny in 2002.
She thus extended the definition of how
her family had been supporting the arts
for generations.
Sound Development’s general objective has been to inspire and support artists through practical experience, to provide knowledge and contacts as well as
to connect people and artists. The pro­
motional efforts were based on different
projects, such as Music Apartment or
LofiDogma, realised as in-house and coproductions. Sound Development has
also been interested in alternative forms
of art and cultural promotion.
The combination of non-commercial orientation and private funding has
allowed the freedom and flexibility needed for an uncompromising implementation, independent from formal concepts
and with an open mind for new methods
and strategies.
Sound Development City was one of
Sound Development’s major projects and
was created in collaboration with Heller
Enterprises. Sound Development wanted to give selected international artists a
platform and the opportunity to realise
trans-disciplinary projects. Personal encounters and collaborative work played a
key role in developing new ideas — away
from academic or institutional settings.
The artist expedition format offered exact­
ly the space and time to do research and to
develop a project — without necessarily
targeting a final product.
Over five years and five expeditions,
Heller Enterprises and Sound Development have supported international artists
to discover new directions and establish
new contacts.
We now intend to bring the project
to an end with the 2016 Sound Development City expedition to Madrid and
Casablanca.
We can look back on a rewarding
time, great encounters and remarkable
projects, and we thank all the participants
who have contributed to the character
and lasting success of Sound Development City.
Special thanks go to Heller Enterprises, in particular Martin Heller, Gesa
Schneider, Andalus, Nicholas Schärer —
and the project director and producer,
Duscha Kistler, without whose commitment the project in this form would not
have been possible.
�sound-development.com
Imprint
Sound Development City
Idea & Concept
Sound Development
Heller Enterprises
Realisation
Heller Enterprises
Responsible: Martin Heller
Sound Development City 2016
Participants & Projects
Dan Allon IL
Visiting the Ghosts of Mrs Swissa
Vincent Charlebois CA Nodes
Bernadette La Hengst DE
Café Europa
Sasha Kurmaz UA
Untitled
Ari-Pekka Leinonen FI
I Am Helping My Friend to Think — My Friend Is Helping Me to Idle
Luka & Jela RS
We’ll Leave Pieces of Madrid on Our
Road to Casablanca
Brent Meistre ZA
Draad Trek (Pull Wire)
Agnieszka Pędziwiatr &
Rafał Pierzyński PL
DIVAS
Youmna Saba LB
1.2 Seconds Ago — Travelling Notes
Chris Wood UK
Walking with Satellites
Jury
Hassan Darsi
La Source du Lion, Casablanca
Esther Eppstein
Message Salon, Zurich
Martin Heller
Heller Enterprises, Zurich
Gianmarco Marchetta
Sound Development, Zurich
Gema Melgar
Matadero Madrid/El Ranchito,
Madrid
Expedition Writer
Uwe Lützen
Headquarters
Nadie, Nunca, Nada, No.
Calle Amparo 94,
Madrid
La Parallèle
1 Rue Abou Al Mahassine Royani,
Casablanca
Local Partners Madrid
Tabacalera, Centro Social
La Juan Gallery
La Casa Encendida
Fantompower
Local Partners Casablanca
Association Casamémoire
Boultek & EAC L’Boulevart
Goethe Institut
Hotel Central
Institut français de Casablanca
Racines
tlbb Magazine
Le Vertigo
Project Management
Duscha Kistler
Project Director & Producer
Andalus
Project Director
Nicholas Schärer
Communications
Andreas Oskar Hirsch
Radio Editor & Mothership Pilot
Anna Katharina Thaler
Intern
Production Partners
Hubertus Design
Design
Astrom/Zimmer
Website
Cristina Anglada
Ana Martínez
Production & Communication —
Madrid
Imane Barakat
Sofiane Benkhassala
Production & Communication —
Casablanca
Jonay PMatos
Photographer — Madrid
Zakaria Wakrim
Photographer — Casablanca
Imprint Publication
Heller Enterprises
Concept
Duscha Kistler
Editor
Nicholas Schärer
Editorial Assistant
Hubertus Design
Design
Caslon SDC
Typeface
Gobi Design Recycling Matt
Sirio Color Sabbia
Holmen TRND 2.0
Paper
Marjeta Morinc
Lithography
Martin della Valle
(Textmax GmbH)
Translator & Copy Editor (except
“Expedition Observations”)
Druckerei Odermatt AG
Printing
An der Reuss AG
Binding
Index of Images
Bernadette La Hengst
10, 17, 18, 19
Andreas Oskar Hirsch
17
Jonay PMatos
11, 12
Nicholas Schärer
23
Anna Katharina Thaler
11, 16, 20, 21
Zakaria Wakrim
22, 23
Thank you
Juan Gómez Alemán
Shimon Allon
Miryam Allon
Ana Ara
Hicham Bahou
Fred Ben
Walid Bendra
Ibrahim Bennani
Chedouane Bensalmia
Dounia Benslimane
Enrique Borrajeros
Ariel Bustamante
Lucia Casani Fraile
Julio Cubillos
Friedrich Dahlhaus
Fanny Dalmau
Florence Darsi
Laura Fernández
Zony Gómez
Abdellah M. Hassak
Ghassan El Hakim
Nadir Houboub
Pekka Leinonen
Florence Jardin-Lorig
Abdellah El Khaljani
Mehdi Filali Khessouane
Lukatoyboy
Tarek El Maarif
Moisés Martin
Clara Martin Gasco
Chus Martinez
Pablo Martinez
Ramón Mateos
Raisa Maudit
Mss Ati
Agent P
Judith Palacios
Marta Rincón
Maria Santos
Rosmery Schoenborn
Manuel Segade Lodeiro
Yassine Skhoun
Samba Soumbounou
Julia Strebelow
Soufiane Toto
Sharon Toval
Alonzo Vasquez
Saï YaCine
Mohcine Zouitina
All workshop participants, collaborators,
guests and newly found friends
Special Thanks
Nia Schmidheiny
Gabriel Bachmann
Everyone in the Sound Development
team
Links
sound-development-city.com
Project Website
sound-development.com
Sound Development
hellerenter.ch
Heller Enterprises
© 2017 Sound Development and
the authors
Dan Allon
Vincent Charlebois
Bernadette La Hengst
Sasha Kurmaz
Ari-Pekka Leinonen
Luka & Jela
Brent Meistre
Agnieszka Pędziwiatr
& Rafał Pierzyński
Youmna Saba
Chris Wood