NORIENT BOOK ON MUSIC AND GLOBALIZATION
SONIC TRACES – RADIO SHOW – 10 JUNI 2013
NORIENT ACADEMIC ONLINE JOURNAL
5. NORIENT MUSIKFILM FESTIVAL BERN (01/2014)
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New Sounds from Cairo
VIDEOPictures, videos and tracks from a recent fieldtrip to Cairo – including Mahragan, Electronica, Sound Art, Egyptronica, Experimental Music …
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Holi in South Africa – post-racial colours?
STORIESHindu festival Holi has recently become popular outside of India, so in South Africa. But these huge open-airs haven’t anything to do with adopted traditions, but with selling escapism to privileged white youths.
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SIM Cards from Northern Mali
AUDIOChristopher Kirkley offers on his blog Sahelsounds autotuned DIY-pop and unplugged music from Northern Mali. A podcast.
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Beat Making Lab Debate
VIDEOUS producers, professors and activists run Beat Making Courses in Africa, Latin America, Melanesia and the US. See how this works out and comment.
Lusophonic Beats in Berlin
BLOGThe two day festival “Lusotronics“ in Berlin celebrates the digital, urban music lifestyles of the four main countries of the Portugese speaking world: Angola, Brasil, Mozambique and Portugal. Not to be missed!
Sonic Traces – Radio Show
EVENTS(*) Sonic Traces Radio Show – ab dem 3. September 2012, alle vier Wochen, Montags um 21 Uhr auf Radio Bern RaBe. Nächste Sendung 10. Juni 2013.
(*) Becoming a stranger
STORIESBrandon LaBelle from Los Angeles is a sound artist, writer and theorist and known for his installations and intervention in public spaces. Anna Raimondo talked with him about his messages, the chances of sound and the listener’s perspective.
Call For Articles: Performing Exotica
ACADEMICWhen drawing on music from far away places musicians have often focused on “otherness” and “difference”. The 3rd volume of the Norient Academic Online Journal (NAOJ) aims to explore these representations that have emerged in the 21st century.
Digging Music Documentaries – 1
VIDEOProgramming our annual Norient Music Film Festival we come along a great variety of documentary films – some you can watch for free online. We start sharing them in our new series «Digging Music Documentaries».
Mashed-Up Switzerland
AUDIOEnjoy our latest Swiss-Fondue-Fufu-Mix, and dive into podcasts and articles around music and musicians from Switzerland – from musicians with or without a Swiss passport.
Mammane and his Electronic Organ
BLOG(*) Mammane Sanni Abdoulaye played the possibly first synth organ in Niger and recorded his only album in 1978. Christopher Kirkley from Sahelsounds not only found one of the rare copies in an archive in Niamey, he also found Mammane himself.
Festival of Experimental Music in Lebanon
BLOGPhotography from Irtijal 2013, our favorite festival for experimental music in the Middle East. Plus two comments by festival co-organizer and musician Sharif Sehnaoui.
Metal in Egypt
STORIES15 years ago Egyptian metal-heads were indicted with Satanism and accordingly controlled – since then little has been heard from Egypt’s metal scene. Insight into a scene that is stranded somewhere midst assimilation and throw-off.
Eclectic Dance Music from Kenya
BLOGKenyan musician Bamzigi was flying ahead of the current electronic dance music craze from South Africa and Angola. However, his eclectic mix Mizuka resonates more abroad than in Kenya where he is not invited for performances.
Enchanting Songs of Thailand
AUDIOPeter Doolan from the MP3-Blog monrakplengthai collects amazing audio cassettes from Thailand. Enjoy these tracks and a short podcast.
Singing history in Colombia
BLOGLes Voy a Contar la Historia is a sonorous and audiovisual compilation of the historical memory of the farmer community of Las Pavas, Colombia – sung and told by its main characters.
The World at 78 RPM
AUDIOJonathan Ward runs the blog «Excavated Shellac», and his 4-CD Box «Opika Pende – Africa At 78 RPM» is nominee for a Grammy for best historical album of 2012. A Podcast.
Sonic Traces: From Switzerland
EVENTSThe new trans-disciplinary, audio-visual performance of NORIENT mixes and manipulates music, sounds, noise and voices from Switzerland.
ACADEMIC
- Out of the Absurdity of Life – Globale Musik
- Local Music Scenes and Globalization – Transnational Platforms in Beirut
- Travelling concepts in Balkan Electronic Dance Music
- The Norient Academic Online Journal
- (*) Jiddischer Tango: «so easily assimilated»
- (*) Mehr als Eisbären: Elektronische Musik in der Schweiz
- Down to the Underground
- First Volume of the Norient Academic Online Journal
- Local Cosmopolitan Bikutsi
- “Never go back”
AUDIO
- (*) MP3-Blogs im Internet
- (*) Radio-Dschungelcamp mit Wildlife!
- (*) Ein Griot spricht Klartext
- (*) Kleiner Klatschknigge
- (*) Flying Violonist
- (*) Sonic Traces – im Störschall
- (*) Religionskritik statt Teufelsanbetung
- (*) Bach, Breakdance und Business
- (*) Das akustische Archiv der Schweiz
- (*) Schweizer Verschwörung
BLOG
- (*) «Das ist ein wenig heile Welt hier»
- (*) Wenn das Postauto zweimal hupt
- (*) Retro-Sounds aus den Anden
- (*) Ein Dreispitz doch kein «spanischer Ton»
- (*) Am Anfang war ein Tropfen Kuhmilch
- (*) Der Hurrikan schüttelt seine Locken
- (*) Backflash: 4. Norient Musikfilm Festival
- (*) Von Geschmacksfragen und dem Spiel mit Darstellungsformaten
- (*) Herzen aus Stahl – Der Metal-Freak in uns
- (*) Fátima, Maria und der Schwarzmetall
EVENTS
- (*) Norient Musikfilm Festival goes Wien
- 5. Norient Musikfilm Festival 2014
- (*) Thementage «Musik und Globalisierung»
- 3. Norient Musikfilm Festival 2012
- Norient Soundsystem
- World Music 2.0: A Post Colonial Avantgarde?
- The Sounds and Noises of Global Prayers
- (*) Sound Translations
- «World Music 2.0»?
- (*) Transnationale Vernetzungen
STORIES
- (*) Breakdance in Bagdad
- (*) Die braven Rebellen aus Nashville
- (*) Politische Ambivalenzen interkultureller Musik
- (*) Rap-Anfänge in der Bronx
- (*) Vom Farbencembalo zum Visual Jockey
- (*) Die Antithese zur Revolutionsmusik
- (*) New Orleans’ musikalische Wiedergeburt
- Sissy Bounce Rap from New Orleans
- (*) Der heilige Popstar von Kruševo
- (*) Rizomorphe Klangsuche
VIDEO
- (*) Fanfaren und Lichtgewitter aus Kadebostan
- (*) «Almost Famous» – Die Bounce-Queen Big Freedia
- «Little-Big» – Chalga-Pop and Metal
- «Until the Light takes us» – Black Metal in Norway
- (*) «Children of the Bible» – Ein äthiopischer Rapper in Israel
- (*) «Liquid Land» – Auf unstabilem Grund
- (*) «Begrabt das Kriegsbeil»
- (*) Tape jam session pt.1: 1944 to 1959
- Rap-breaks from Africa
- Extreme Rituals
