From K-pop to reggaeton, from afrobeats, mahraganat to hyperpop. Music researcher and Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter guides us through new sounds of the world. Enjoy the playlist of this mixtape, produced for Swiss national radio SRF3.
Making field recordings is like tapping into an alien world. For our writer, it feels less like experiencing, more like becoming time itself.
Episode 11 of the «Timezones» podcast series delves into Budapest’s independent arts and music scene in the wake of the latest Hungarian parliamentary elections in April 2022.
In this sonic fiction, our writer depicts the Moroccan avant garde band Nass El Ghiwane as straying birds in search of a different life.
Listen to this playlist with a selection of tracks from the city’s underground producers.
Listen to this playlist of artists from Beirut. This selection features new and older releases by musicians across musical genres.
An introductory text to the Online Special «Norient City Sounds: Beirut». Special curator and writer Rayya Badran asks: what are the sounds of the aftermath of a collapse?
This poetic text by Carine Doumit is inspired by «The Night Came About», a film co-written by the author and filmmaker Mira Adoumier. It recounts the fictional encounter of two characters from the film, following an equivocal transformation of Beirut at night.
In this essay, artist Joe Namy discusses the culture of car sound-systems which exists in Beirut and across the world to delve deeper into the meaning of bass and its role in community life.
Invoking the struggle of women composers and producers in the city of Beirut, Lebanon, producer, DJ, and performer Lilian Chlela produces a mix that reflects the breadth and richness of their music whilst highlighting the challenges they must overcome.
Singer and composer Sandy Chamoun draws from an array of musical genres from the region and beyond in this spellbinding mixtape where she assembles tracks that give voice to feelings of pain, loss, and rage.
