Sampling is political: about the use of chicken clucks or bomb sounds in current music.

  • Design by Barış Doğrusöz.
    The Impossible Sound Banks of Beirut
    Short Essay by Jana Saleh
    Field recordings and sampling are at the center of this short essay in which performer and music producer Jana Saleh explains why her inability to use recordings of Beirut’s momentous events has led her to think differently about musical composition.
  • MR. LU* (photo: Thomas Burkhalter).
    Gengepress
    Remix by Raphael Kariuki, Kamwangi Njue
    Nairobi-based artists Kamwangi Njue (7Headc0) and Raphael Kariuki (DJ Raph) remixed conversations between seven Nairobi musicians and Norient’s Thomas Burkhalter, resulting in this compilation album.
  • 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.
  • You Are Here! Episode 4: Reduction and Extension
    You Are Here! Episode 4: Reduction and Extension
    Podcast by Hannes Seidl
    In the fourth episode of the podcast series «You Are Here!» trumpeter Paul Hübner meets two sound obsessives: Drummer Etienne Nillesen and electronic musician and spoken word artist Elsa M’bala.