Roland Barthes

The Sound Of Plastic

By Beate Scheder on August 23, 2017

By Beate Scheder on 23 August 2017 in STORIES

The sound artist Geert-Jan Hobjin combines sound art with political issues. His project «Plastic Souls» is a swimming instrument made of plastic waste from the ocean. It makes us aware of the alarming increase of plastic pollution worldwide.

Posted in STORIES | Tagged Anthropocene, flutes, Geert-Jan Hobjin, Homer, microplastics, Odysseus, Odyssey, plastic bags, plastic pollution, Plastic Souls, Roland Barthes, siren, sound art, Staalplaat, wave power | Leave a response

Popular Orientalism(s) #3: Musik, Macht und der Mythos Mehrstimmigkeit

By Birgit Abels on May 21, 2014

By Birgit Abels on 21 May 2014 in STORIES

Teil 3 des Dossiers beleuchtet «Edward Saids dunkle Seite des Mondes»: wenn es um Musik geht, ist der Literatur- und Kulturkritiker ein «fürchterlicher Ethnozentriker».

Posted in STORIES | Tagged Birgit Abels, C.G. Jung, Dossier: Popular Orientalism(s), Edward Said, Enta Omri, Ethnomusikologie, Friedrich Arnold Klockenbring, Georg Forster, James Burney, James Cook, Johann Reinhold Forster, Kofi Agawu, Kolonialismus, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Musikethnologie, Nikolaus Forkel, Orientalism, Partha Chatterjee, Polynesien, Postkolonialismus, Roland Barthes, Umm Kulthum | 5 Responses

August 24th 2017

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