In 2018, I had the opportunity to stay in the Marrakech Safi region, at the invitation of Les Halles de Schaerbeek. I was to conduct a creative residency there on the notion of 'sacred'.

But, as is often the case, and fortunately, I drifted. And from this journey, several conversations arose with different 'practitioners' of the voice and the word: with the poet and Sufi specialist Touria Ikbal, a young singer and a student muezzin, the storyteller and teacher Aziz Bouyabrine and, more particularly, in a rich and constant dialogue with the artist and translator Noureddine Ezarraf.

These encounters led me from the peaks of the High Atlas to the cavity of a mouth, along a vocal groove that leads from song to language. And in the relief of this furrow, the memory of words, the traces of colonial violence, a sung remedy, the history of letters and of the cosmos have appeared.

The conception of this piece made me question myself a lot. In particular about the use of French, or about my accuracy and legitimacy to hold a microphone in a cultural context of which I was very ignorant. However, it is this confusion, this discomfort and these derivations that make it precious to my ears.

"I speak all languages, but in Arabic" was produced as part of a residency in Marrakech in 2018 at the invitation of Halles de Schaerbeek.

Direction, sound recording and editing: Myriam Pruvot

With the voices of : Abdelaziz Bouyabrine, Salim Djaféri, Noureddine Ezarraf, Touria Ikbal, Soulaima Laabili and Taha Tourani and Myriam Pruvot

Thanks to the Dar Bellarj Foundation and to the whole acsr team.

Production: Self-production

License: Free

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