Zwischen Krach und Stille

Podcast

Wie klingen die Regenwälder von Papua Neu Guinea? Wie die Millionen-Stadt Kairo? Welche Sounds wählt die deutsche Komponistin Hildegard Westerkamp, wenn sie Indien vertont? Und zu welchem Krach wacht der renommierte Musikethnologe Steven Feld in Ghana jeden Morgen auf? DRS 2 hört sich für einmal Soundscape-Kompositionen aus vielen Teilen dieser Welt an. Thomas Burkhalter redet mit den Komponisten und Wissenschaftlern Steven Feld, Charles Hirschkind, Hildegard Westerkamp und Seth Ayyaz und diskutiert kritische Fragen: Wann sind Soundscape-Kompositionen einfach nur Sound-Safaris? Wann muss man ihnen vorwerfen, einen «akustischen Orientalismus» zu betreiben?

Koli, Finnland (photo: Thomas Burkhalter).

Trackliste

1. Seilbahn
Thomas Burkhalter, Norient
Feldaufnahmen Mount Koli (Unpublished)

2. Vogel im Wald
Thomas Burkhalter, Norient
Feldaufnahmen Mount Koli (Unpublished)

3. Keafo, morning
Steven Feld
Rainforest Soundwalks: Ambiences of Bosavi, Papua New Guinea
(EarthEar)

4. Seyak, butcherbird
Steven Feld
Rainforest Soundwalks: Ambiences of Bosavi, Papua New Guinea
(EarthEar)

5. The Bird Gost at the Zaouia
Seth Ayyaz
Unpublished

6. Cassette Sermon by Cheikh Kishk
Free Download
From Book: Hirschkind, Charles. 2006. The Ethical Soundscape – Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics, New York: Columbia University Press

7: Music of Horns and Whistles
The World Souncscape Project
The Vancouver Soundscape 1997
Free Download

8. Into the Labyrinth
Hildegard Westerkamp
Into India: A Composer’s Journey (Earsay Productions)

9. Waking in Nima
Steven Feld
Waking in Nima (VoxLox)

10. The Bird Gost at the Zaouia
Seth Ayyaz
Unpublished

11. Women’s Ceremonial Iwo
Bosavi Musicians
Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papau New Guinea (Smithsonian Folkways)

12. Bach
Thomas Burkhalter, Norient
Feldaufnahmen Mount Koli (Unpublished)

13. Vogel 2
Thomas Burkhalter, Norient
Feldaufnahmen Mount Koli (Unpublished)

Diese Sendung wurde ausgestrahlt auf Schweizer Radio DRS2, Musik der Welt (17.9.2010).

Biography

Thomas Burkhalter, PhD, is an anthropologist, multidisciplinary artist, and writer from Bern, Switzerland. He is the founder and director of Norient and the Norient Festival. Burkhalter has co-directed documentary films, including Contradict (Berner Filmpreis 2020, Al-Jazeera Witness), and created AV/theatre performances. He is the author and co-editor of several books, such as Local Music Scenes and Globalization: Transnational Platforms in Beirut (Routledge) and The Arab Avant Garde: Musical Innovation in the Middle East (Wesleyan University Press). His experimental radio feature, Gqom Edits – A Durban Visit, was nominated for the Prix Europa in 2017. Burkhalter teaches regularly at universities, leads workshops for arts institutions, and, since 2022, has produced the Norient Mixtape for Swiss National Radio SRF3. Currently, Burkhalter's focus lies on his new music/AV duo, Melodies In My Head, and the podcast Long Take: Life as an Artist. Burkhalter’s work combines personal and global perspectives, often in close collaboration with artists and thinkers from across the world. Follow him on Instagram, Research Gate, Academia.edu, Bandcamp, Spotify, or Meta.

Published on September 17, 2010

Last updated on April 09, 2024

Topics

Ethnomusicology

Soundscape

Listening

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Chaos in Paradise

Mixtape

by DJ Ben i Sabbah

Transcendental soundscapes, ethnic music, jazz and experimental sounds between tradition and contemporary electronica. This time: Sounds from the Orient.

In media and press we are confronted everyday with a lot of negative news about the muslim culture: bombs, burkas, minarets are some words of irritation and provocation which divide the Western society… why? Bombs have nothing to do with real Islam culture, only unbelieving criminals use them, a minaret is just the same as a churchtower…

So let us take a closer look to the rich and beautiful Middle Eastern music scene, there’s much more then just rai and bellydance… As a red line leading through this night, and as examples of the polarisation between politics and culture, I will present some podcasts (in German language…) about the «other» oriental music scene by Thomas Burkhalter and Simon Grab for Norient.

Follow me and my upcoming shows via Soundcloud!

Track-List

Part 1

badawi / safe (asphodel 2005)
smadj / selin (mvs2009)
various / al tarab – muscat ‘ud festival (enja 2006)
mamdoh el gebaly / ‘taqasim, maqam higaz-kar’ ‘sama i rahat al-arwah, maqam rahat al-arwah’
royal oman symphony orchestra & ammar el-sherei / ‘variations on arabic melodies for ‘ud and orchestra’
mc rai / raivolution (embarka 2005)

norient podcast I / rai und rap in algerien

various / king size dub chapter nine (echo beach 2003)
khaled / ‘didi (tim simenon mix)’
various / the sound of istanbul- crossing the bridge o.s.t. (ear book / warner music 2005)
ceza / ‘holocaust’
various / doublemoon remixed II (doublemoon 2009)
various / dou8blemoon remixed (doublemoon 2007)
the spy from cairo /secretly famous (wonderwheel 2009)
speed caravan / kalashnik love (newbled 2008)

norient podcast II / orientalische rockriffs in der arabischen welt

john berberian & the rock east ensemble / middle eastern rock (mgm early 70’s)
dhafer youssef / divine shadows (jazzland 2006)
jah wobble/ 30hertz collection (meta 1999)
jah wobble & sussan deyhim / ‘requiem3’
sussan deyhim / madman of god (crammed disc 2000)
secret chiefs 3 / book m (web of mimicry 2001)
secret chiefs 3 / book of horizons (web of mimicry 2004)
ben i sabbah’s midnight loop
shalabi effect / the trial of st. orange ( alien8recordings)

norient podcast III / krieg propaganda bomben

Part 2

shalabi effect / the trial of st. orange (alien8recordings)
muslimgauze / citadel (extreme 1994)
celt islam / dervish (urbansedated 2009)
secret chiefs 3 / book m (web of mimicry 2001)
secret chiefs 3 / book of horizons (web of mimicry 2004)
dououd / ping kong (world village 2008)

norient podcast IV / neue musik von rändern der welt

norient podcast V / experimentelle musik

ricardo arias, mazen kerbaj, christine sehnaoui, sharif sehnaoui, raed yassin
recorded in beirut july 2006 (soundcloud)

simon shaheen / the music of mohammed abdel wahab (axiom 1990)
koch schütz studer & el nil troop / heavy cairo traffic (intuition 1997)
cheb i sabbah / la kahena (sixdegrees 2005)
hassan hakmoun & adam rudolph feat. don cherry / gift of the gnawa (flying fish 1991)
smadj / selin (mvs2009)

various / tribal matrix (dakini 2006)
lumin / ketri (dakini)
various / tribal matrix II (dakini)
tribal snake / faralis (2009)
starchasm ‘du u luv me’ ‘sekhmet’ (serena toxicat & mitsuo unno) (2010)
various / tribal matrix II (dakini)

Part 3

various / tribal matrix II (dakini)
tribal snake / faralis (2009)
various / live at dakini nights 1999-2004 (dakini 2004)
secret archives of the vatican / the glidepath ep (2010)
genetic drugs & jasmon / spacecake (black flame 2001)

norient podcast VI / hermes records

samsara soundsystem / ritual of carousel (baboon)
various / mesopotamix – remakes & remixes of iraqi classics
speed caravan / kalashnik love (real world 2009)
kabul workshop / trigana new edition (sound of world 2000/2004)
rabih abou-khalil / bukra (mmp 1989)

norient podcasts VII / musik und zensur im libanon

rabih abou-khalil / bukra (mmp 1989)
the spy from cairo /secretly famous (wonderwheel 2009)
various / arabian travels (sixdegrees 2001)
björn j:son lindh / cous cous (metronome 1972)

Biography

DJ Ben i Sabbah: When i visited talvin singh’s ‘calcutta cyber cafe’ in londons ‘brick lane’ 1998, i got infected with the ‘asian underground virus’, since this time i work as a dj, specialized for asian and oriental underground music, here in swiss in different clubs and locations. I have my own radio broadcast ‘chaos in paradise’ on smallest swiss alternative radio station www.rasa.ch, and i got invited from bobby friction in 2008 to play a set in his radio show on bbc1/asiannetwork. Follow him on SoundCloud.

Published on September 21, 2010

Last updated on August 21, 2020

Topics

Othering

Tradition

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Des Teufels Amboss

Podcast

by Thomas Burkhalter

In den 60er-Jahren träumte die Hippie-Bewegung von einer offenen und toleranten Welt. Ihre Musik war der psychedelische Rock. Auch Araber waren am Boom dieser Musik in den USA beteiligt. Eine Gruppe in New York, die sich vor allem aus Exilarabern zusammensetzte, nannte sich The Devil's Anvil – des Teufels Amboss. Aber auch im Nahen Osten und in Nordafrika, von Beirut bis Casablanca, spielten arabische Gruppen Hippie-Musik aus dem Westen, angereichert und weiterentwickelt durch orientalische Rhythmen und Klänge – Orient und Okzident waren musikalisch verbunden. Aber die Verbrüderung hielt nicht lange; schon bald wurde der Nahe Osten von heftigen politischen Krisen und Kriegen heimgesucht, die zu verhärteten Fronten führten und eine kulturelle Abgrenzung vom Westen bewirkten.

John Berberian and the Rock East Ensemble.

Trackliste

1. Million Grains Of Sand
The Freak Scene
CD: Psychedelic Psoul/Hard Rock from the Middle East

2. Selim Alai
The Devil’s Anvil
CD: Psychedelic Psoul/Hard Rock from the Middle East

3. Flying High
John Berberian & The Middle Eastern Ensemble
CD: Middle Eastern Rock

4. Leyla and the Poete
Halim El-Daph
Buch: The Musical World of Halim El-Dabh

5. Mustapha
Bob Azzam
CD: Unbekannt

6. Mustapha
Dead Brothers
CD: Wunderkammer

7. Warakat Ya Nassib
Omar Khorchid
CD: Belly Dance Vol II

8. Pop Corn
Omar Khorchid
CD: Belly Dance Vol II

9. Opa Kukla
Morocco
CD: Waking Up Scheherazade

10. For your information
Sea-ders
CD: Unknown

11. From the Moon
The News
CD: Waking Up Scheherazade

12. Do you love me
Bendaly Family
CD: Unveröffentlicht

13. Chenar Le Blues
Les Abranis
CD: Unbekannt

Eine Sendung von Thomas Burkhalter. Ausgestrahlt am 29.7.2010 auf SWR2 Dschungel.

Biography

Published on August 04, 2010

Last updated on August 13, 2020

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Counter-Culture

Diaspora

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