How artists deal with the practice that some call «time-travel» and others «audiotopia».

  • Mirath:Music outdoor sound exhibition at the sculpture park of the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman, Jordan (photo: Taher Otaibi/Goethe-Institut Jordanien, 23.10.2021).
    Amorphous Arab
    Short Essay by Majd Shidiac
    Can one pursue the past through reimagining the present? Veteran musician Yacoub Abu Ghosh and sound experimentalist Rehab Hazgui talk to Norient about merging tradition with recent techniques at the «Mirath:Music Sound Exhibition», a project by the Goethe-Institut.
  • Self-portrait of Lorenzo Brusci (courtesy of the author; additional design by Marina Benetti).
    Speaking Music
    Short Essay by Lorenzo Brusci
    Drawing from his first-hand experience with sound installations and AI-assisted music composition, musician and philosopher Lorenzo Brusci, founder of MUSICO, offers a multimedia techno-poetic essay on the history and current status of machine-assisted musicking.
  • DJ Balli at the Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio in Bologna (photo: B. & C. Achermann; additional design by Marina Benetti).
    The Aesthetic of the Drum Machine and Mechanical Introspection in the Club
    Remix by Riccardo Balli
    This text is a literary remix of Enrico Prampolini’s «The Aesthetic of the Machine and Mechanical Introspection in Art» (1922), considered a key text to understand the so-called second wave of Futurism, also referred to as «futurismo degli anni venti».
  • Eden Tinto Collins & Gystère, Fr.i.ction Show (Norient Film Festival 2021)
    The F.r.iction Show
    Eden Tinto Collins, Gystère
    «The F.r.iction Show» juxtaposes the creations of multi-disciplinary artists Gystère and Eden Tinto Collins as the result of a process of global reflection around a musical identity borrowed from different Afro-Eurasian cultures. But it is also a proposal of context for this music to emerge, out of the Space.