Cairo Talking Heads | 01-04.2007

Here some links to audio recordings made during our presentation of the Cairo Talking Heads project on thursday 29. march at the Sphinx Age...

Your imitation of the Abdel Karim post is very good, beside a few sounds that are anyway difficult to pronounce for non-native speakers. I...

Heliopolis - basilica. Traffic sounds from the surrounding streets recorded from inside the church, beeing processed through the natural rev...

A small and green island in the south on the Nile, lots of birds & insects, party boats passing by and the whole night soundscape from t...

No dadaism in this text plagiated and transformed by Teeth, originally written by blogger Sandmonkey . 25th of March Whenever someone would ...

Air France Groppi Abat-jour, l’ombre en pointe du Tulip Hotel, Internet Café Mabdouly Bookshop, façade convexe d’un immeuble aux volets vert...

Rami is a street poet. You are a travelling stranger. I am a stranger who never travelled. Why is it like that ? I will anwser with a poem o...

Late night, Downtown Cairo, street cleaners at work, kids with trolleys and older people collecting the rubish for recycling, cats, dogs, ra...

You know, it’s very funny because when I listen to your Talking Head imitations, it gives me the impression to hear the sound that you are r...

Le gros serveur traverse le bouge étroit en direction de Dents & Langue, les yeux de Langue sont posés sur les trous de cigarettes de la...

Le Zaar dévoilé Les musiciens de Zaar ne sont que vingt-quatre dans toute l’Egypte. Il ne reste de cette véritable espèce en voie de dispari...

Air épais stase, poussière grasse s’introbruit, s’immobilise, plaque, grasse, croix lumineuses griffent, jaune, les murs se fendent gravasse...

Considering your blog, I think it’s a good idea to give people the possibility to make their own mix of the different sounds of Cairo. Heari...

Abdul, 29, working as a journalist for Al Fajr (The Dawn), an independent Arabic weekly newspaper running around 55’000 in the whole country...

The Cairo Talking Heads Project has been inspired by the Egyptian blogosphere from its very beginning. Many of the activist bloggers are rep...

I’m quite sure that Teeth & Tongue won’t have any problem by repeating activists’ statements. But to build the conditions through which ...

I saw myself in the bed of the lighting, sleeping to the wounds My finger is diving in the seas of passion Opening my hymns, singing the las...

(see previous post with our performance of his poem HERE ) Teeth caught the rhythm but not really the letters or the phonemes. He only touch...

Teeth & Tongue & Ash meet the Baron at Heliopolis The Baron: The Baron came to Egypt and said he has a brilliant idea, that he wan...

_ bab zuweila shishas alignées cantine de rue deux tours en pierre à créneaux gril à gaz on pèle des oignons à pleines mains le grilleur fai...

After having severely critized the quality of our arabic sound sources, here's Ash's contribution. he said it's a poem. we have ...

il y a place CHLORÉE à peine pour corps d'un mètre soixante par dix centimètres claxons bananes mégaphones, square plus loin CHLORÉE, sq...

A l’embouchure d'un fast food, il trempe ses beignets dans cinq litres d'huile. Non seulement son ventre, mais jusqu'aux stores ...

deux allemands qui regardent un couple d’égyptiens noirs comme fourmis baisant dans une boîte de verre il n’y a pas d’homme blanc marchant p...

I will tell you my opinion. The arabic is not clear. The one who is reading this arabic didn’t know arabic. He read latin letters but the t...

_ "Orientalist : a guy who travelled a lot. Trapped in the dictionary of accepted ideas. Flaubert couldn’t write in Egypt, he just want...

here's a talking head contribution by teeth who found the source file randomly on the web. please leave a comment...or send us an audio ...

Here's my first try to appropriate a fragment of arabic language through audition & repetition. I found that randomly on the web and...

A Dream : knowing a foreign language without understanding it : to perceive the Difference in it, without this Difference being ever caught ...

A DREAM: KNOWING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING IT teeth & tongue will be in Cairo very soon. this blog will document thei...