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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 Hannes Liechti (Norient) on May 4, 2018
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 4 May 2018 in
BLOG
After being invited by the Iwalewahaus Bayreuth the Nairobi-based electronic musician and producer did an artist residency in Germany, rummaging through the institution’s extensive music archive of ethnographic field recordings from Africa.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged archive, Belonging, DJ Raph, Folklore, Funding, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, Identity, Iwalewahaus Bayreuth, Kenya, Music Production, Noland, postcolonial, Postcolonialism, religion, Ritual, Rwanda, Ryangombe, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Aesthetics, Sampling Motivations: Identity, Sampling Stories, SNF, Tradition |
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 April 1, 2018
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 1 April 2018 in
BLOG
Tracing the genesis of a track by producer Ian McDonnell (Eomac, Lakker) we can follow the steps to learn how sampling is used to replace a conventional vocal track and discuss questions on the circulation and handling of media material in times of Web 2.0.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Algorithms, Bestiality, Eomac, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, Ian McDonnell, Music Production, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Atmosphere, Sampling Stories, SNF, voice, Voyeurism, Web 2.0, YouTube, Zoophilia |
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 Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on January 5, 2018
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) and Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 5 January 2018 in
BLOG
Chino Amobi is heavily sampling in his tracks, from airport soundscapes to chicken clucks and – not least – gun shots. In this short quote he explains why the latter are in fact uniting people.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Chino Amobi, Diamond Black Hearted Boy, Game Culture, Gun Shots, Music Production, NON Worldwide, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Atmosphere, Sampling Motivations: Identity, Sampling Motivations: Politics, Sampling Stories, science fiction, Seismographic Sounds, Utopia, Violence, War |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on December 26, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 26 December 2017 in
BLOG
The heavily sample-based tracks by Estonian electronic producer Mihkel Kleis show the total disembodiment of the samples from their sources. This approach becomes apparent when both listening to the tracks but also looking behind the scenes of its production.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Audacity, Folkways, Gérard Genette, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, intertextuality, Mihkel Kleis, Murray Schafer, Music Production, Quotation, R. Murray Schafer, Ratkiller, Richard Dyer, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Aesthetics, Sampling Stories, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Schizophonia, SNF |
By Immanuel Brockhaus on October 11, 2017
By Immanuel Brockhaus on 11 October 2017 in
ACADEMIC
Im Buch «Kultsounds – Die prägendsten Klänge der Popmusik 1960-2014» geht der Pianist, Komponist und Wissenschaftler Immanuel Brockhaus auf die Suche nach prägenden Einzelsounds der Popmusikgeschichte.
Posted in ACADEMIC, XFEATURED | Tagged Bandstopp-Effekt, Billboard Charts, Conway Studio, cult-sounds, David Guetta, Effectrix, Ellie Goulding, Flo Rida, Glitch-Sounds, Immanuel Brockhaus, Ke$ha, Kevin Rudolf, Kultsounds, Lil' Wayne, Markus Leucht, Music Production, Nicki Minaj, Scrubbing, Slate Digital, Slow-Down-Effekt, software, Speed-Up-Effekt, Sugar Bytes, Tape, Tape Slow-Down, Tape Stop, Transcript, vari-fi, Vengeance, Virtual Tape Machine |
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 Hannes Liechti (Norient) on September 22, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 22 September 2017 in
BLOG
It is the very discrete mixture of samples, jazz vocals, folk spirit, live instrumentation and experimental electronics that characterizes the weird and beautiful song sketches of interdisciplinary artist Yatta Zoker from Brooklyn, NY.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Belonging, Diaspora, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, Mourning, Music Production, religion, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Identity, Sampling Stories, Skype, SNF, Time, WhatsApp, YATTA, Yatta Zoker, YouTube |
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 Hannes Liechti (Norient) on August 9, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 9 August 2017 in
BLOG
Digging samples in the tracks of Daniel Jakob led me to two interesting potentials of the production method: sampling as a hidden means of producing tracks and sampling of ambient sounds as cultural signifiers.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Ableton, Alpine Dub, Babatunde Olatunji, Daniel Jakob, Dub, Dubokaj, Filewile, Glokale Sounds, Goats, Hannes Liechti, Music Production, place, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Aesthetics, Sampling Motivations: Atmosphere, Sampling Stories, SNF, YouTube |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on May 15, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) and Katie Gately on 15 May 2017 in
BLOG
A psychological approach to sampling: the American avantgarde-pop musician Katie Gately samples familiar, sometimes scary sounds and noises form the everyday that are deeply connected to her childhood memory.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Biography, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, Hauntology, Katie Gately, Loneliness, Music Production, Past, Psychology, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Aesthetics, Sampling Motivations: Atmosphere, Sampling Motivations: Identity, Sampling Stories, SNF |
By Sidney Sutter on May 8, 2017
By Sidney Sutter and Valentin Mettler on 8 May 2017 in
VIDEO
Producing Eritrean music in the diaspora works in a quite unique way. Because of this, the third episode of the web documentary on Eritrean music is concentrating on the production and the vocals.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Abrar Osman, Eritrea, Exile Guayla, Music Production, Senait Hadish, Sidney Sutter, Valentin Mettler, Vocals, Yohannes Gebre |
By Gregory Markus on April 19, 2017
By Gregory Markus on 19 April 2017 in
BLOG
We trace the history of the carillon of the biggest church in Rotterdam, the Grote of Sint-Laurenskerk. Its bell sounds play an important role in the tracks of the compilation «010», released by the Dutch initiative RE:VIVE.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged archive, BZGRL, Carillon, Church Bells, Damrak, Descartes, Fog Mountain Records, François Hemony, Glokale Sounds, Gregory Markus, Hannes Liechti, history, Jacob van Eyck, Lwa, Marin Mersenne, Meta, Music Production, Netherlands, Oaktree, Pierre Hemony, RE:VIVE, Roly Porter, Rotterdam, Rotterdam Blitz, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Atmosphere, Sampling Motivations: Interest, Sampling Stories, SNF, space, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, urban space, World War II |
By Bit-Tuner on April 14, 2017
By Bit-Tuner, Dejot and Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on 14 April 2017 in
AUDIO
Gqom edits 001/002 / Experimenting with interview formats // We meet gqom producer Citizen Boy and his grandmother in the Avoca Hills township of Durban to discuss about dark electronic gqom tracks.
Posted in AUDIO, XFEATURED | Tagged Africa, Bedroom Producing, Bit-Tuner, Citizen Boy, Cruda Volta Radio, Dejot, Durban, Fruity Loops, Google, Gqom, Gqom Edits, Gqom Oh! The Sound of Durban, Music Production, Presets, Sampling, South Africa |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on March 22, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 22 March 2017 in
BLOG
With her new project, COOL FOR YOU, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Vika Kirchenbauer tends to «decompose harmonies as colonizers». What comes out are high-pitched voices, unfamiliar harmonies, and rumbling and raw rhythms.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Appropriation, archive, Belonging, Christianity, colonialism, COOL FOR YOU, Ethics, Exotica, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, Harmonies, history, Identity, Institutions, Lauren Berlant, Mission, Music Production, Othering, Pitching, postcolonial, Power, religion, Sacred Harp, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Politics, Sampling Stories, Shulamith Firestone, SNF, US, Vika Kirchenbauer, World Music |
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 Hannes Liechti (Norient) on February 17, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 17 February 2017 in
BLOG
In «Libres» Argentine producer Moro is bridging the Atlantic slave trade with the current refugee crisis. The main element of the track is a sample of chain sounds, transformed into a historically meaningful rhythm.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Advocacy, Argentina, Candombe, Clave, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, madera, Moro, Music Production, NON Worldwide, Politics, Resistance, Rhythm, Rumba Clave, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Politics, Sampling Stories, SNF |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on January 31, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 31 January 2017 in
BLOG
Although it’s been labeled as an afro-futuristic project and also comes along as such through an eclectic and futuristic sound collage, fashion, photography, and music videos, «Alien Cartoon» by Senegalese producer Ibaaku is deeply rooted in place.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged accidental sampling, City, Dakar, Diola, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, Ibaaku, Jola, Music Production, place, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Identity, Sampling Stories, Senegal, SNF, urban space |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on December 6, 2016
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 6 December 2016 in
BLOG
In this new series, Norient talks about sampling and remixing with different musicians from all around the world: Why, how and what do they sample? Meet Israeli electronic industrial artist Ptyl in this first sequel.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Electronic Music, Ethics, Glokale Sounds, Hannes Liechti, Industrial, Israel, Music Production, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Politics, Sampling Stories, SNF, Underground Music |
By Immanuel Brockhaus on October 28, 2016
By Immanuel Brockhaus on 28 October 2016 in
STORIES
And.Ypsilon is a real sound scientist. As a beat maker for Die Fantastischen 4 he shaped the sound of german hip hop. Norient met him in his studio in Stuttgart to talk about his love for electronic music and his re-discovery of modular synthesizers.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged And.Ypsilon, Architecture, cult-sounds, Die Fantastischen 4, Electronic Music, Germany, Hip Hop, modular synthesizers, Music Production, New Age, Oscillators, Presets, Sampling, Sound, studio |
By Immanuel Brockhaus on May 28, 2016
By Immanuel Brockhaus on 28 May 2016 in
STORIES
Boris Blank gained worldwide fame as a pioneer of electronic pop music and sound designer. Here he talks about his passion for electronic music, the shift from analog to digital and the magic of pre-sets.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Ableton Live, alienated sounds, App, Arp Odyssee, BBC, Bob Dylan, bongo samples, Boris Blank, Carlos Péron, cult-sounds, Dieter Meier, Digitisation, electric guitar, Electronic Music, electronic tools, Immanuel Brockhaus, inspiration, Koladi-Ola, Linndrum, lions, manipulating, microphone, modernity, modulating, Music, Music Production, Paul Hartnoll, pioneer, plug-ins, Pop, potentiometers, pre-sets, progressiveness, samples, Sampling, Sequential Circuit, sound design, sound fragments, sound structure, studio, synthesizers, tape machines, tapes, The Orbita, vinyl record, Yello, Yellofier, Zurich |
By Norient on March 22, 2016
By Norient on 22 March 2016 in
VIDEO
What happens when Salome MC, one of the first female Iranian rappers meets bilingual MC Shing02 from Hawaii, Honolulu? Watch the video documentary from the 1+1 project on the production of the collaborative track «Passenger».
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged 1+1, 1+1 Season 1, 1n1, 1plus1, Banzai Media, Beatboxmike, Daniel Doel, Delmore Uto, Eunji Paula Kim, Gotaro Oshitari, Hannes Liechti, Hawaii, Hip Hop, Honolulu, Jules Washington, Kali Kasashima, Koohsar, Lana Lane Studios, Mark Spangler, Mikee Mic, Music Production, New Geographies, Nicholas Kaleikini, Norient, Nujabes, Rap, Salome MC, Saxwillard, Shing02, Sound Development, USA, Vincent Ricafort |
By Jackie Perreira on March 7, 2016
By Jackie Perreira on 7 March 2016 in
STORIES
In the context of the new recording project 1+1 by Norient and Sound Development, one of the first female Iranian rappers Salome MC and multilingual rapper Shing02 worked together in Honolulu for one week.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 1+1, 1+1 Season 1, 1n1, 1plus1, Beatboxmike, Belonging, Blue Planet Sound, Hannes Liechti, Hawaii, Hip Hop, Honolulu, Iran, Jackie Perreira, Japan, Jules Washington, Kakaako, KTUH, Lana Lane Studios, Matsuo Bashō, Middle Passage, Mikee Mic, Music Production, Nicholas Kaleikini, Nick Kaleikini, Norient, place, Reilynn Yamane, Salome MC, Shaneika Aguilar, Shing02, Shingo Annen, Slave Trade, Sound Development, To Kill A Mockingbird, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, USA, Vincent Ricafort |
