Browse: Home / Music and Politics
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on August 28, 2018
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 28 August 2018 in
BLOG
Berlin-based producer Kritzkom rarely works with samples and, accordingly, on her 2016 techno track «Inner March for Utopia» synth basses and melodies dominate. But if one digs deeper one can find the traces of a sample of the Kurdish national anthem.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Ableton, Advocacy, female:pressure, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, Kritzkom, Kurdish, Kurdistan, Marine Drouan, Music and Politics, Music Production, Rojava, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Politics, Sampling Stories, SNF, Techno, War |
By Norient on June 28, 2018
By Norient on 28 June 2018 in
VIDEO
Which form of musical protest is most effective to provoke change? This we asked musicians and scholars around the world, from composer Dave Philipps to the ethnomusicologist Martin Daughtry. Their answers are quite different. A virtual debate.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Acoustic Mirror, Annette Schmucki, Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF), Blablabor, Dave Philipps, Filastine, İpek İpekçioğlu, Johannes Kreidler, Kamen Nedev, Keith Kahn-Harris, Kimi Kärki, Martin Daughtry, Minuit De Lacroix, Music and Politics, Protest, Protest Music, Reto Friedmann, Rona Geffen, Rudolf eb.er, Seismographic Sounds, Seismographic Sounds Debates, Trullesand |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on April 18, 2018
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 18 April 2018 in
BLOG
In the tracks of the San Francisco-based artist, sampling is as much identity-generating as a political tool. Here are five reasons why sampling is so important in the ambient-shaped tracks of the upcoming producer.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Ableton, access, Archiving, Armenia, Armenian, Armenian Genocide, Bay Area, Bay City, Belonging, Club Chai, Cultural Anchoring, Dhol, Diaspora, Djivan Gasparyan, Doumbek, Duduk, Foozool, Geghard Monastery, Gender, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, Hexadome, history, Hybridity, Identity, ISM, Kamancha, Lara Sarkissian, Music and Politics, Music Production, Nihar, Nihar Bhatt, Ofelya Hambardzumyan, Paruyr Sevak, Politics, Protest, Qanun, religion, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Identity, Sampling Motivations: Politics, Sampling Stories, San Francisco, Santoor, Sharakan, SNF, Tradition, YouTube |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on February 10, 2018
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 10 February 2018 in
BLOG
With the #rojava campaign female:pressure aimed to raise awareness around the resistance movement in Northern Syria. We meet one of the artists who have contributed and sampled women fighters.
Posted in BLOG, XFEATURED | Tagged Ableton, Advocacy, AGF, Antye Greie-Ripatti, BBC, Copyright, Ethics, Female Pressure, Glokale Sounds, guns, Hannes Liechti, Kurdish, Money, Music and Politics, Music Production, Olivia Louvel, Rojava, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Politics, Sampling Stories, SNF, solidarity, Syria, War |
By Jenny Fatou Mbaye on November 2, 2017
By Jenny Fatou Mbaye and Aisha Deme on 2 November 2017 in
VIDEO
In this clip from the news show «Journal Rappé» from 2014 Senegalese hip hop pioneer Xuman used the famous hit «Formidable» by Stromae and turned it into a parody on a fallen local politician.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Aisha Deme, Dakar, Formidable, Jenny Fatou Mbaye, Journal Rappé, JTR, Karim Wade, Money, Music and Politics, Parody, Power, Protest, Seismographic Sounds, Senegal, Xuman |
By Aisha Deme on October 31, 2017
By Aisha Deme and Jenny Fatou Mbaye on 31 October 2017 in
VIDEO
Since 2013 the Senegalese news show «Journal Rappé» merges rap with daily news. The concept of the two hip hop pioneers Keyti and Xuman is innovative and creative, as our authors think; and the means of parody has become crucial to the show.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Aisha Deme, corruption, Dakar, Fass, Formidable, Hip Hop, Jenny Fatou Mbaye, Journal Rappé, JTR, Karim Wade, Keyti, Money, Music and Politics, Parody, Power, Protest, Seismographic Sounds, Senegal, Xuman |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on October 9, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (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 field recordings, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, Kateryna Zavoloka, Kiev, Kvitnu, Music and Politics, Music Production, Politics, Protest, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Identity, 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 (Norient) on August 10, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (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, Advocacy, 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, Music Production, Muslimgauze, Ohmicide, racism, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Identity, Sampling Motivations: Politics, Sampling Stories, SNF, Technology |
By Martin Stokes on April 7, 2017
By Martin Stokes and Thomas Burkhalter (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 (Norient) on March 3, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (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, Music Production, Politics, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Atmosphere, Sampling Motivations: Interest, 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, Bay Area, 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, Fame, Hawaii, Honolulu, Iran, Jackie Perreira, Japan, Jules Washington, Music and Politics, Norient, Salome MC, Shing02, Shingo Annen, Sound Development |
By Michael Spahr (Norient) on November 25, 2014
By Michael Spahr (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, Paradiso, Thomas Burkhalter, Until the Light Takes Us, Wanlov The Kubolor, Wiener Festwochen |
