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Mixtape

For our exhibition Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World Lucia Udvardyová from the music blog Easterndaze.net compiled a Mixtape. It is a personal assemblage of fleeting encounters, uncompromising sonics, recordings from house parties and demonstrations. A 20-minute transition through perpetual transition, a looped past-future-past, an ode to the «former» Eastern Europe: from Budapest to Bucharest, Prague to Belgrade, Vienna to Bulgaria, conjuring an imaginary landscape open to contingency and adventure.

Tracklist

Powitanie: «Animacje Hotelowe, Słoneczny Brzeg»

Laura Luna: «Auroras»

Ivan Hrušovský: «Idée Fixe»

William: «Budapest» (11/2014)

Falochron: «Nessebar, Stare Miasto»

Kassett: «444 (Imre Kiss remix)»

Somnoroase Păsărele: «SEPT TREI»

Springboard: «Yanni Rhytms»

Demisia: «Bucharest» (12/204)

Mirat: «Mane4»

Magma Trakt: «Syrup»

Highway 69: «Suleiman The Magnificent»

Valea Cascadelor: «Bucharest» (12/2014)

Wsie: «Wieś z błotem»

Id M Theft Able: «Jowls Without A Face»

Alone In Heaven: «Sacral»

Radu: «Bucharest» (12/2014)

The mixtape was presented at the exhibition Seismographic Sounds.

Biography

Lucia Udvardyová is a music journalist, curator, and organizer. In 2010, she co-founded Easterndaze, a project that aims to document and interconnect the emerging underground scenes in Central and Eastern Europe. She has worked with Czech Radio, Resonance FM, Cashmere Radio, The Listening Biennial, The Quietus, and The Wire, Central European University (CEU), and the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), among others. Between 2016 and 2021, she curated and co-organized the Easterndaze x Berlin series that aims to bring together collectives from Berlin and the CEE region. She also gives lectures and talks and leads sound-related workshops. Udvardyová currently works for the SHAPE platform, a pan-European festival initiative that promotes innovative music and audiovisual art, CTM Festival’s discourse program and magazine, and she’s the film curator at WOMEX. Follow her on her website or Instagram. Follow her on Website.

Published on December 16, 2016

Last updated on August 11, 2020

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Being Free in Music

Podcast

by Werner Hasler

«I don't have a typical day», says Palestinian singer Kamilya Jubran and laughs. In the podcast she talks about her biography, living as a musician in Europe, the power of music, and her song «Suite Nomade, Pt. 1». The collaboration with double bass player Sarah Murcia is based on poetry from World War I about the state of war and how it effects fragile communities. For Jubran a poem that hasn't lost any of its topicality: «I look today how we live in Israel, in Palestine – and not only there, in many other countries – and I find that this is written today.» A podcast from the Norient exhibition Seismographic Sounds, produced by her longtime musical partner Werner Hasler.

Kamilya Jubran & Sarah Murcia: «Suite nomade, Pt. 1»

This poem by Bedouins from the Sinai speaks of hardship that war brings upon people. Kamilya Jubran and Sarah Murcia translate these orally transmitted words from World War I into contemporary Arabic music. The singing of Jubran and the sounds from the double bass evoke the silence after the war.

Quotes from the Podcast

My name is Kamilya Jubran. I’m a singer, musician and a composer. I’m a Palestinian born in Israel and I lived in the Galilee for eighteen years. I moved to Jerusalem in 1981 to study at the Hebrew University and a year later I joined the freshly established Sabreen group, who I worked with for twenty years. I lived in Ramallah as well during the first intifada between 1988 and 1993, and circulated between Ramallah and East Jerusalem. In spring 2002 I got a scholarship for a residency program offered by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia in Switzerland. The timing of this program was just right and coincided very much with my need for a break to recharge my batteries and refresh my thoughts. I stayed in Bern for two months, during which I took time to listen to my inner voice and thoughts. I also met different artists living there and came to understand their different artistic tendencies.

My parents introduced me to Classical Arabic music at a very young age. In my eyes they found in music their refuge and a way to protect and maintain their inner peace, in the context of the immense political change imposed in their area after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Through music and instrument-making, my parents managed to create this little paradise in which I grew up.

Having decided to stay in Europe since 2002, I started to compose my own music for the first time in my life. I was fortunate to have met musicians who think and work in similar ways: who question the music they want to do, who don’t care whether their music will or won’t please people – musicians who believe in what they do and defend it.

With my first attempts I began experimenting with electronic music, but people who were used to the music I sang with Sabreen didn’t respond too well. They wanted me to sing the style they knew. With my music I want to be free. I want to walk on undiscovered lands, to connect with my roots and keep doors open to other people’s experiences and ways of thinking. I want to be the same person carrying my past and present, while living a new existence. I’m refusing to be a prisoner of that past and present.

This quote was recorded by Werner Hasler and published first in the second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds».

Biography

Werner Hasler (Trompete, Elektronika, Komposition) ist u.a. mit Karl Berger, Sunao Inami, Jon Hassell, Sidsel Endresen, Daniel Ott, Mahmoud Refat, Gilbert Paeffgen, Pierre Audetat, Christopher Dell, Jan Galega, Don Li, und Hans Koch aufgetreten. Follow him on Youtube, Spotify, or in his Website.

Published on February 07, 2017

Last updated on October 07, 2020

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Ispasskoi? by Yao Bobby + Edgar Sekloka

1+1 EP Release: «Ispasskoi?»

by Simon Grab

Within a hyperactive week of studio recording in Lomé Togo, Yao Bobby and Edgar Sekloka produced 5 tracks from scratch – together with skilled musicians and a patient sound engineer. The EP Ispasskoi? is available for download via Bandcamp for free. This production week was part of the first season of 1+1, a worldwide recording project by Norient and Sound Development in Summer 2015. For more material (tracks, videos, articles, photos) on 1+1 check the project website here.

T-Shirts for Yao Bobby + Edgar Sekloka. Lomé Togo (photo: Kelly Agbobli)

The recording week in Lomé was dense for everyone involved. 1+1 artists Yao Bobby and Edgar Sekloka wrote a total of five tracks, and composed an intro, while involving a total of 6 additional musicians to record the instumental tracks and vocal featurings. Within the same week, a video trailer, and scenes for the video clip for the track «Kilodé» were recorded. The EP Ispasskoi? is available for download via Bandcamp for free. If you would like to support the artists you can name your price. The bandcamp account is managed by the artists themselves. Due to the lack of time during the production week Yao Bobby and Edgar Sekloka decided to shot the rest of the images for the video clip «Kilodé» individually in Lomé and Paris. The final cut was done by director Zedi Choco in Lomé. The lead track of the EP «Kilodé» means «What's going on?» or «il se passe quoi?» in french, giving the EPs title Ispasskoi?.

1+1 Street Art. Lomé Togo (photo: Kelly Agbobli)

Credits

Songs written by Yao Bobby and Edgar Sekloka

Produced & Recorded at Colibri Studios, Lomé Togo, August 26 – September 04, 2015

Mastering by Dan Suter, echochamber Zurich

Yao Bobby, vocals

Edgar Sekloka, vocals

Rodrigue Ade, Recording Colibri Studios

Ali Bawa, vocals

Wihelmine Harlley, vocals

Kossi Mawun, drums

Agbovon Mak, trumpet

Ahavi Kodzo, guitar

Ahouandjogbe Gaétan, bass

Produced by Norient and Sound Development, Switzerland

Production Manager: Simon Grab

Biography

Simon Grab, the co-founder of ganzerplatz soundstudios has been an active musician and producer in a wide range of musical contexts. As a composer and sound artist he produces music & sounddesign for feature films, documentaries, theatre and radio. In live performances and installations he uses the venue as an acoustic playground. He likes exploring new grounds by negating existing borders. Follow him on Youtube, Instagram, or BandCamp.

Links

www.1n1.ch

www.norient.com

www.sound-development.com

Published on March 23, 2016

Last updated on August 24, 2020

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