Clive Bell muses on the music documentary «Don’t Rush’s» love for Rembetika – Greek urban folk music essentially made by refugees – and on an ongoing humanitarian crisis.
Lacking a common language is not always an obstacle to communication. It can help to build new connections without preconceptions. An essay inspired by the film «In Your Eyes, I See My Country», in which two Israeli musicians travel to Morocco.
Episode 3 of the «Timezones» podcast series, co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut. In this episode, four contemporary artists with a connection to the city of Delhi reflext upon their diverse and evolving practices.
Steph Kretowicz is struck by the power of the creative impulse exhibited by Camille Degeye’s protagonist in her short film «Journey Through a Body».
While techno and house have become widely commodified by white Europeans, Tedra Wilson’s documentary Dark City Beneath the Beat shows how Baltimore Club kept its highly localized aesthetics, and proves the richness of Black club music in the 21st century.
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.
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.
«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.
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?
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.
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.
