Norient Playlist 1/23: Ukraine

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Norient Playlist 1/23: Ukraine
Norient Playlist 1/23: Ukraine

A selection of some recent releases of Ukrainian experimental music, including artists from the TIMEZONES episode Ukraine. Several of the tracks were written or released during the war in 2022.

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Sound: Gamardah Fungus

The Dance Floor Is My Office

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The Dance Floor Is My Office
The Dance Floor Is My Office

In this essay, our author takes a closer look at Polish filmmaker Jan Moszumański’s film «Singeli Movement: Greed for Speed» and uses it as a starting point for a reflection on the genre’s grounding in the digital age and the dissonances embedded deep in its music.

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Design: Maria Uthe

Music or Weapon: Four Monologues from Ukraine

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Music or Weapon: Four Monologues from Ukraine
Music or Weapon: Four Monologues from Ukraine

Episode 14 of the «Timezones» podcast series features four candid testimonials by Ukrainian artists recorded in the summer of 2022, a few months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Design: Šejma Fere

Ghost City, Tear Gas, Novel Rhythm, Nowhere to Go

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Ghost City, Tear Gas, Novel Rhythm, Nowhere to Go
Ghost City, Tear Gas, Novel Rhythm, Nowhere to Go

By thinking about and with sound, we experience the world through embodied practices. In her mesmerizing sonic essay based on field recordings in a protest-struck Cairo, our contributor asks: How are bodies, things, and cityscapes interconnected?

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Design: Ali Sayah

Norient Playlist 12/22: Buenos Aires

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Norient Playlist 12/22: Buenos Aires
Norient Playlist 12/22: Buenos Aires

A selection of eclectic, experimental, electroacoustic music from Buenos Aires, Argentina. All these compositions explore the plasticity of sound. They take us by the ear into hallucinations that are as beautiful as they are chaotic, noisy, or delirious.

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Design: Maria Uthe
Sound: Beatriz Ferreyra

Incubator of Possibility

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Incubator of Possibility
Incubator of Possibility

A lament is a clandestine form of remembering. In this sonic fiction, our writer imagines a chorus of marginalized voices arriving from the future and enacting a critical fabulation of the past and present.

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Design: Ali Sayah

Buenos Aires: Relations Condensed in Practice

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Buenos Aires: Relations Condensed in Practice
Buenos Aires: Relations Condensed in Practice

Episode 13 of the «Timezones» podcast series examines how communities and friendship networks help strengthen artistic explorations among musicians in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires.

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Quote: Miguel Garutti
Design: Šejma Fere

Norient Playlist 11/22: Colombo

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Norient Playlist 11/22: Colombo
Norient Playlist 11/22: Colombo

Listen to this playlist of artists from Colombo. A mix of original Sri Lankan popular and underground tracks both by Sinhala and Tamil artists.

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Design: Maria Uthe
Sound: Tea Kada Passanga

5 Video Clips from Slovenia: Uncool but Cool – The Accordion

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5 Videos From Slovenia: Uncool but Cool – The Accordion
5 Video Clips from Slovenia: Uncool but Cool – The Accordion

The accordion is the most important traditional instrument in Slovenian music – but is it really the most uncool? Watch five music videos in which it is used in the usual but also experimental ways, from turbofolk to trap.

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Design: Maria Uthe

5 Video Clips from Uruguay: Defending Free Spirit

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5 Video Clips From Uruguay: Defending Free Spirit
5 Video Clips from Uruguay: Defending Free Spirit

For Uruguay’s music undergrounds, pushing aesthetics and social change forward goes hand in hand. Listen to 5 music videos that function as safe spaces to express feminism, LGBTQIA+ rights, and hedonism.

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Design: Maria Uthe

Aragalaya: Inside the People’s Struggle in Colombo

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Aragalaya: Inside the People’s Struggle in Colombo
Aragalaya: Inside the People’s Struggle in Colombo

Episode 12 of the «Timezones» podcast series explores the creation of art during the political struggle that has shaped Sri Lanka and its capital Colombo since the start of 2022.

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Design: Šejma Fere