#guermassa

[kohohohala]

La route part vers le Sud et nous réserve des panoramas surprenants.

Le circuit des ksour (un ksar, des ksour) commence par le ksar Hallouf. On y voit bien les ghorfas, des sortes de greniers pour les nomades.

On enchaîne avec le ksar Hadada. En plus de son nom génial, il est connu pour avoir accueilli le tournage de quelques scènes de Star Wars.

Le ksar Guermassa se mérite et la montée n'est pas évidente. Heureusement, les températures ont chuté et un petit vent frais nous accompagne. La découverte est incroyable. On y découvre deux villages perchés, rejoint par une petite route sur une crête. Et comme la vue est géante, ça donne un lieu vraiment magique...

26/07

[belgag8]

Guermassa, Tunisia 

[chamkhi]

Amazeigh ancient village #chnenni #guermassa #amazighe #berber #badayelhouse #southerntunisia #downsouth (at Guermessa, Tatawin, Tunisia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo49Ompn8lf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=169ocsiov4riz

[sdladhia]

Photo Crédit © F O L K L O R E 📷 . . . . . #tunis 🇹🇳 #tunisia #ghomrassen #guermassa #southtunisia #tunimoments #tunivisions #igerstunisia #eveningvibes #tunisianmoments #oldtowne #street #streetphotography #details #saharadesert #folkart #drum #dark #festival #folklore #tunisianfolklore #traditionalclothes #photography #music #rhythm #flute #photographers #streetphotographers (à Tunisia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbSvgZdodbU/?utm_medium=tumblr

[heard-music]

Heard Live at Naxos Festival 2019 from Nikolaos Symeonidis on Vimeo.

Heard Live at Ephemeral Art Exhibition: Naxos Festival 2019

The Sound State of Mind - Bazeos Tower Documentation Video

Credits: Composed & Performed by: Nikolaos Symeonidis Choreography & Dancing by: Amalia Kosma Filming & Video: Olivia Dehez Curator: Marios Bazeos Shepherd: Mrs. Maria Field Recordings: Marble Factory

Press Release

Modern migration has made it abundantly clear that our place on earth, and any stability we might feel, is ephemeral. How can we explore the transitory nature of humanness by tracing historical, cultural, and environmental iterations of migration through new forms of analog music? The project attempts to answer this question from a performative perspective. The musician Nikolaos Symeonidis and the dancer/choreographer Amalia Kosma, a native of Naxos, are working within the theme of “emphermerality” at the Bazeos Tower Naxos Festival 2019, and with the curatorial support of Mario Bazeos.

This project, which began in Tunisia by musician Nikolaos Symeonidis, follows the musical elements of a long past that exists regionally (MENA, Balkans, Southern Europe) and applies them to contemporary issues of mass movement. Across this region, there are dozens of similar sounds that transcend borders: crying women, death songs, timpani drums, whistling wind instruments. Forces that drive people across and between this region are also interchangeable, be they economic, political, environmental, and/or social. The project uses both academic documentation of field recordings and analog/synth sounds to reimagine and retell stories of migration.

Heard Music would like to thank the people of Ghomrassen, Guermassa, Naxos & Cyclades Islands and specially Mrs. Maria for so kindly sharing their musical traditions, and without which, this performance would not be possible.

[sdladhia]

Photo Crédit © Bedouin Poetry Evening 📷 . . . . . #tunis 🇹🇳 #tunisia #ghomrassen #guermassa #southtunisia #tunimoments #tunivisions #igerstunisia #tunisianmoments #oldtowne #street #streetphotography #details #mountains #architecture #meeting #drum #dark #festival #folklore #photography #music #rhythm #photographers #streetphotographers (à Guermessa, Tatawin, Tunisia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbSPes8oVAb/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sdladhia]

Photo Crédit © راحة بين حربين .. 📷 . . . . . #tunis 🇹🇳 #tunisia #ghomrassen #guermassa #southtunisia #tunimoments #tunivisions #igerstunisia #tunisianmoments #oldtowne #street #streetphotography #details #mountains #rock #architecture #meeting #desert #sahara #skyphotography #skyline #tops #photography #berber #amazigh #streetphotography #photographer #streetphotographers (à قرماسة Guermessa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbNOaDjIOCe/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sdladhia]

Photo Crédit © Guermassa Ghomrassen Tataouine Tunisia 📷 . . . . . #tunis 🇹🇳 #tunisia #ghomrassen #guermassa #southtunisia #tunimoments #tunivisions #igerstunisia #tunisianmoments #oldtowne #street #streetphotography #details #mountains #mosque #architecture #meeting #skyphotography #skyline #sky #sunset #phonephotography #photography #photographer #streetphotographers (à Guermessa, Tatawin, Tunisia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbK9O7qocm6/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sdladhia]

LOC 🔻 #ghom #ghomrassen #tunisia #غمراسن #guermassa #ڨرماسة #mountainvillage #mountains #oldhouses #amazigh #berbervillage #southtunisia #visco #igers 💕🇹🇳📷 #Photography #oldpictures 📷 @dhia_sdla 👌 (à Ghomrassen) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2DIcjrHrfa/?igshid=1x3xdnplnoq4g

[sdladhia]

♥️📷 #ghom #ghomrassen #tunisia #southvibes #غمراسن #قرماسة #guermassa #southtunisia #mountains #thé #saharavibes #visco #igers 💕🇹🇳📷 mercii @youssra_mrf 😍 (à Ghomrassen) https://www.instagram.com/p/By7TnmlFIVl/?igshid=19c7bxuulk74i

[chamkhi]

Antiquité. Antique door. #ksour #ksar #guermassa #ghomrassen #tataouine #tatawin #tunisia (at Guermessa, Tatawin, Tunisia)

[chamkhi]

Antiquité. Antique door. #ksour #ksar #guermassa #ghomrassen #tataouine #tatawin #tunisia (at Guermessa, Tatawin, Tunisia)

[heard-music]

Naxos Festival 2019: Ephemeral Art Exhibition: Sound State of Mind from Nikolaos Symeonidis on Vimeo.

Ephemeral Art Exhibition 2019 - Festival Naxos Bazeos Tower - The Sound State of Mind

Original Version: 30:00 min

Credits: Composed & Performed by: Nikolaos Symeonidis Choreography & Dancing by: Amalia Kosma Filming & Video: Olivia Dehez Curator: Marios Bazeos Shepherd: Mrs. Maria

Press Release

Modern migration has made it abundantly clear that our place on earth, and any stability we might feel, is ephemeral. How can we explore the transitory nature of humanness by tracing historical, cultural, and environmental iterations of migration through new forms of analog music? The project attempts to answer this question from a performative perspective. The musician Nikolaos Symeonidis and the dancer/choreographer Amalia Kosma, a native of Naxos, are working within the theme of “emphermerality” at the Bazeos Tower Naxos Festival 2019, and with the curatorial support of Mario Bazeos.

This project, which began in Tunisia by musician Nikolaos Symeonidis, follows the musical elements of a long past that exists regionally (MENA, Balkans, Southern Europe) and applies them to contemporary issues of mass movement. Across this region, there are dozens of similar sounds that transcend borders: crying women, death songs, timpani drums, whistling wind instruments. Forces that drive people across and between this region are also interchangeable, be they economic, political, environmental, and/or social. The project uses both academic documentation of field recordings and analog/synth sounds to reimagine and retell stories of migration.

These migratory soundscapes help us understand, through the use of machines and performance, the impermanence of humanity. While the long-term plan is to move this musical project across the Mediterranean, primarily in places of transition and migration, Symeonidis is currently focusing on musical traditions found on Greece’s edges, particularly the Cycladic islands: the Cyclades have historically been an important point of movement, from Homer’s Odyssey to the contemporary migration crisis.

The musical component will use traditional Cycladic sounds to reinterpret a contemporary soundscape of migration, including war, violent phenomena, extreme weather conditions, and industrial machinery. Original field recordings that capture the movement of earthly elements will also be utilized. The performance will be both about migration and made of migration: sound exists within the natural borders of the space and time needed for it to travel and be heard. Because this performance will take place in an open-air environment, the sound will travel for several kilometers, lending an audial ephemerality to the piece.

Migration is "embodied" by the body of the migrant that acquires a realistic and symbolic value, meaning that a "successful migrant" is the migrant whose body has survived, overcoming risks and challenges to reach the desired destination. Kosma will explore the migrant body in the transition of mobility and immobility, alongside with the identity and cultural memory that this body carries and how this carriage adjusts and transforms into the new environment. Movement and migration is inherently physical, and Kosma’s choreography will serve as a narrative parallel to the live analog show Symeonidis will perform.

The performance took place in the outdoor field of the Bazeos Tower on Monday the 8th of July 2019 at the Ephemeral Art Exhibition 2019 during the NAXOS FESTIVAL 2019.

Heard Music would like to thank the people of Ghomrassen, Guermassa, Naxos & Cyclades Islands and specially Mrs. Maria for so kindly sharing their musical traditions, and without which, this performance would not be possible.

[heard-music]

Heard Live at 57th Art Biennale of Venice from Nikolaos Symeonidis on Vimeo.

Heard Live at 57th International Art Exhibition: La Biennale di Venezia

The Absence of Paths - Navy Checkpoint, 2017

The Absence of Paths is a human performance staged across Venice which, for the duration of the Biennial, represents an idyllic microcosm of the world: a place where human beings may still flow freely from one nation to the next.

During the vernissage (May 10th-13th), we are pleased to invite you to a series of performances. Each act is set against a soundscape of unique musical recordings of fading music traditions in Tunisia. These anthropological recordings are a compilation of seven years of research across Tunisia, from Mednine, Kasserine, and Dembla to Khness. For the Arte Biennale 2017, the artists have focused on music from the rural towns of Ghomrassen and Guermassa in the southwest of Tunisia. This music, sung by naked female voices without musical accompaniment, was generally sung during marriages, and are a testament to the preservation of traditions through the body. Several rhythmical instruments, including the tbal and ghayta played specifically by men in Guermassa, are interwoven with the vocals. Both of these musical traditions are disappearing as people migrate out of these villages, leaving behind towns deprived of both people and sound. These rural recordings are fused with conceptual electronic sounds creating a new style that highlights both Tunisia's past and its future.

We would like to thank the people of Ghomrassen and Guermassa for so kindly sharing their musical traditions, and without which, this performance would not be possible.