Music Students Listen and Record the Water Source

April 20th 2023
Photo
Region
Morocco
Researcher
Source
Joudour Sahara
Formats
Field research
Soundscape
Workshop
Disciplines
Acoustic Ecology
Deep listening practices
Soundscape studies
Themes
Listening as activism
Preservation
Climate crisis
Climate change

Joudour Sahara music students in M'Hamid El Ghizlane, Morocco, listen and audio record and video on the Joudour Sahara farm and cultural site the water pump for farming

On the cultural site and farm of the Joudour Sahara Music Program the students gather to record and video. On this day they are recording with us the sounds of a water source on the farm in M’Hamid El Ghizlane, Morocco.

This water pump source helps the head farmer Habib and farm to grow vegetables and date palms on the site. With the extreme heat and lack of water in the M’Hamid Oasis in Morocco, date palm trees have been drying up in the area. The young girls of the music program are collecting sound recordings of the water source as it moves through the farm, waters the plants and the ecosystem that lives among it as the birds and as they find in the stream a frog in the middle of the desert.