About Indian musicians in German pedestrian zones and the relationshis of music and place in academic research.

  • Shiv Pawan Band (photo: Neelansh Mittra).
    A Day Out with the Bandsmen
    Film by Abhishek Mathur
    Abhishek Mathur, a musician in an ensemble band himself, ventures out to spend a day with a ceremonious gathering of brass bands. He reflects on the tensions and contradictions layering the multidimensional worlds of bandsmen and the sonic explosions that they create.
  • Timezones.
    Aesthetics Matter: New Ways of Storytelling
    Audio Talk by Thomas Burkhalter, Abhishek Mathur, Suvani Suri
    How can people work together across the constraints of time and space, and the cultures they determine? In this talk, Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter and the artists Abhishek Mathur and Suvani Suri discuss their work on the experimental podcast series TIMEZONES.
  • Hadi Bastani (photo by the artist).
    «Listening Is at the Heart of What I Do»
    Interview by Franziska Buhre, Hadi Bastani
    In this interview, sound artist, composer, and anthropologist Hadi Bastani talks about his listening habits; his earlier research on noise music, glitch, and computer music; and the effect that online fieldwork has had on his collaborative works.
  • Still from a video shot during a performance of tecnopizzica at a carnival party at Università di Lecce in 1998 (Piero Fumarola’s personal archive; image courtesy of Giovanna Martelloni and Ernesto Fumarola; additional design by Marina Benetti).
    Turbo Sud: South Italian Traditional Rhythms and Their Encounters with Electronic Music
    Essay by Agostino Quaranta
    Taking cues from his interdisciplinary and research-based project Turbo Sud, visual artist and music producer Agostino Quaranta unearths the almost forgotten memories of electronic experiments made with pizzica pizzica, in the Southeast of Italy.