Your Body Is a Medium

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Your Body Is a Medium

A body is not just perceiving sounds, it is also their medium. Here is an essay about the materiality of sound and how the body shapes the listening process.

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Quote: Luise Wolf
Design: Johannes Plank
Photo: Anngret Wolf
Sound: Johannes Plank

How Post-Punk Heralded Modern Coffee Shops

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How Post-Punk Heralded Modern Coffee Shops

How does music affect the image of a city? In his recent book «Deindustrialisation and Popular Music», Giacomo Bottà elaborates the relationship between de-industrialization and genres like house, industrial or post-punk.

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Design: Chrizzi Heinen

The Life in Music of Three Experimental Musicians (in Serbia and Switzerland)

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The Life in Music of Three Experimental Musicians (in Serbia and Switzerland)

«Timezones» – Episode 2. An electro-acoustic composition based on the interviews with the three artists Mara Miccichè, Branko Džinović, and Vukašin Đelić, the close friends and collaborators of the podcast producer, who have never met each other.

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Design: Šejma Fere

Sound Politics of Video Calls

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Sound Politics of Video Calls

The pandemic-driven changes have produced new sensory dissonances: While some urban spaces became eerily quiet, ubiquitous video calls turn the domestic into a public space flooded by multiple voices and sounds. What do these sonic worlds tell us about the social? 

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Design: Šejma Fere
Remix: Sukitoa O Namau

Nairobi’s Next Generation Music Producers and Performing Artists Speak Out

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Nairobi’s Next Generation Music Producers and Performing Artists Speak Out

Nairobi’s next generation music producers and performing artists speak out – Episode 1 of the new Timezones Podcast Series, co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute.

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Design: Šejma Fere

«The Idea of Representation Is Dangerous»

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«The Idea of Representation Is Dangerous»

Norient met with Firas Abou Fakher of the indie rock band Mashrou’ Leila who is among the progressive voices of the young Lebanese generation, to talk about Lebanon’s complicated history, clichés about the Arab world, and the role of music in times of change.

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Quote: Firas Abou Fakher
Design: Šejma Fere
Sound: Mashrou’ Leila
Remix: Sukitoa O Namau

Pushing Critical Thought: Sampling Politics Today

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Pushing Critical Thought: Sampling Politics Today

In this Norient Special, we examine how political contexts of our time are transformed into musical production. With case studies from all around the world, this Norient Special approaches sampling as a tool for critical thought and a way of alternative storytelling.

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Design: Studio Flux
Photo: Various
Sound: Various

The Learning Process of Sampling

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The Learning Process of Sampling

Music producer Eomac describes how his sampling strategy has changed over time. Starting out, he used any sound available. Now, as an experienced musician, he is confronted by complex ethical questions. Today, he emphasizes the intent behind sampling as key.

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Design: Studio Flux
Photo: BoredHumans.com
Sound: Akala (YouTube), Eomac

Ain’t Nothing Wrong (With Political Dance Music)

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Ain’t Nothing Wrong (With Political Dance Music)

Music scholar and producer Francesco Fusaro discusses one of his sample-based tracks. It is through the voice that dance music has proven a fertile territory for the expression of the political and social concerns that underpinned its history from the beginning.

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Design: Studio Flux
Sound: Francesco Fusaro/Froz

Sampling the Sacred in House Music

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Sampling the Sacred in House Music

Recently, dance music producers have attempted to sample Islamic sonic materials and courted controversy with the establishment in North Africa and the Middle East. Is sampling a tool that can be used indiscriminately across cultures? Or are there limits to its reach?

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Design: Studio Flux
Sound: Patrick Topping, Mr. Fingers

Sound Collage as Political Chronic

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Sound Collage as Political Chronic

The song «Apesar de Você» by Chico Buarque is one of the most iconic protest songs published in the context of the Brazilian military dictatorship. A sound collage made from clippings of the word «despite» in various instances of Brazilian pop music.

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Design: Studio Flux
Photo: last.fm