Cantará is a sound festival around the coast of Tarfaya, a port city in southern Morocco, and a former Spanish colony now completely in ruins.

The two-part project revolves around in situ recordings of historical and contemporary anecdotes of ruins and soundscapes. Cantará offers a local writing of history through a “confrontation” of intergenerational visions that have experienced those buildings within different uses. From the old cinema to the ruined Spanish fort, this series of viewpoints gives us a glimpse of how the population interacts with its architectural environment. This first part is punctuated by a series of informative and humorous broadcasted posts on Tik Tok and Instagram, aiming to show the ‘behind the scenes’ of both the city and the collaborative and contextual approach. The idea is to integrate the neglected coastline into the city in the long term by creating a collective memory and putting in place urban signage that will remain in the space beyond the festival.