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By Hannes Liechti from Norient on October 9, 2017
By Hannes Liechti from Norient on 9 October 2017 in
BLOG
«Volya» is the only record so far in which the Ukrainian experimentalist has used sampling material with a strong political connotation: field recordings from the revolutions in Kiev. A background talk about the soundscape of the Maidan.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, Kateryna Zavoloka, Kiev, Kvitnu, Music and Politics, Politics, Protest, Sampling, Sampling Stories, SNF, Soundscape, Ukraine, Volya, War, Zavoloka |
By Emma Dabiri on September 7, 2017
By Emma Dabiri on 7 September 2017 in
VIDEO
With her video «Orangutan» Italian artist and activist Karima 2G responded on racist comments of Italian politicians in the context of the election of Italy’s first black government minister Cécile Kyenge in 2013.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Belonging, Blackness, Cécile Kyenge, Dolores Valandro, Emma Dabiri, Identity, Italy, Karima 2G, Mario Borghezio, Migration, Music and Politics, Orangutan, racism, Roberto Calderoli, Second Generation, Seismographic Sounds |
By Hannes Liechti from Norient on August 10, 2017
By Hannes Liechti from Norient on 10 August 2017 in
STORIES
Aniruddha Das understands sampling as a political, yet militant instrument. In the interview he gives insight into his sampling practice and talks about musical exoticism, political meaning, and his use of distortion.
Posted in STORIES, XFEATURED | Tagged Ableton Live, Aniruddha Das, Appropriation, Asian Dub Foundation, Bryn Jones, Chris McGuinness, Cultural Meaning, Diaspora, Digitakt, distortion, Dr. Das, Elektron, Exotica, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, Migration, Miles Davis, Multiculturalism, Music and Politics, Muslimgauze, Ohmicide, racism, Sampling, Sampling Stories, SNF, Technology |
By Martin Stokes on April 7, 2017
By Martin Stokes and Thomas Burkhalter from Norient on 7 April 2017 in
STORIES
What happens to Exotica when unfamiliar sounds are only few mouse-clicks away? Is listening to «foreign» music a private matter or a political activity? An email interview with scholar Martin Stokes.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Anthropology, Barbara Engh, colonialism, Cultural Colonialism, Ethnocentrism, Ethnomusicology, eurocentric, Exotica, Exoticism, Martin Stokes, Music and Politics, Neoliberalism, Orientalism, Othering, Parody, postcolonial, Sampling, satire, Seapunk, Seismographic Sounds, Vaporwave |
By Hannes Liechti from Norient on March 3, 2017
By Hannes Liechti from Norient on 3 March 2017 in
BLOG
In times of constantly bubbling news tickers that have long ago stopped covering sport events only, Berlin-based James Whipple has produced a LP that is dealing with the resultant feeling of information overload.
Posted in BLOG, XFEATURED | Tagged Anger, Counterstrike, Data Overload, Donetsk, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, Information Overload, M.E.S.H., Music and Politics, Politics, Sampling, Sampling Stories, SNF, Ukraine, Video Games, War |
By Werner Hasler on February 7, 2017
By Werner Hasler on 7 February 2017 in
AUDIO
In the podcast Palestinian singer Kamilya Jubran talks about her biography, being a musician in Europe, the power of music, and her song «Suite Nomade, Pt. 1», based on poetry from World War I about the state of war and how it effects fragile communities.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Belonging, Experience, Freedom, Kamilya Jubran, Migration, Music and Politics, Palestine, Sarah Murcia, Seismographic Sounds, Seismographic Sounds Podcasts, War, Werner Hasler |
By Jackie Perreira on March 29, 2016
By Jackie Perreira on 29 March 2016 in
STORIES
Shing02 is known around the world as a multilingual rapper, but we found out that there’s much more than meets the eye when it comes to this mystic artist. Meet another participant of the 1+1 recording project by Norient and Sound Development.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 1+1, 1+1 Season 1, 1n1, 1plus1, Aoi, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cradle Orchestra, Del the Funky Homosapien, Hawaii, Hieroglyphics, Honolulu, Jackie Perreira, Japan, Music and Politics, Norient, Nujabes, POW!WOW! Hawaii, Salome MC, Samurai Champloo, Shaneika Aguilar, Shing02, Shingo Annen, Sound Development |
By Jackie Perreira on March 19, 2016
By Jackie Perreira on 19 March 2016 in
STORIES
«Watching Salome work on music reminds me of watching a surgeon perform open-heart surgery.» A portrait on one of the participants in the 1+1 project. «She’s not shy, she’s waiting for the right moment to speak», our author writes about the Iranian rapper.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 1+1, 1+1 Season 1, 1n1, 1plus1, Blue Planet Studios, Hawaii, Honolulu, Iran, Jackie Perreira, Japan, Jules Washington, Music and Gender, Music and Politics, Norient, Salome MC, Shing02, Shingo Annen, Sound Development |
By Michael Spahr from Norient on November 25, 2014
By Michael Spahr from Norient on 25 November 2014 in
AUDIO
Revolutionsromantik oder kritische Polit-Musik? Historiker Moritz Feichtinger spricht über den ivorischen Reggae-Musiker Tiken Jah Fakoly, der im Moment auf Europa-Tournee ist.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Africa, Afro-Reggae, Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Mali, Music and Politics, Reggae, Tiken Jah Fakoly |
By Norient on May 29, 2013
By Norient on 29 May 2013 in
EVENTS
Thomas Burkhalter und Michael Spahr von Norient zeigten bei den Wiener Festwochen ihre Lieblings-Musikfilme und mixten auf Ö1 schrille Musik, live Skype-Interviews from around the globe und Norient-Geschichte(n).
Posted in EVENTS | Tagged Aaron Aites, Alessandro Negrini, Audrey Ewell, Black Metal, Coz of Moni, Emmanuel Owusu‐Bonsu, Ghana, Hip Hop, Irland, M3nsa, Mensa Ansah, Michael Spahr, Music and Politics, Norient Musikfilm Festival, Norwegen, Out of the Absurdity of Life. Globale Musik., Paradiso, Thomas Burkhalter, Until the Light Takes Us, Wanlov The Kubolor, Wiener Festwochen |
