A Sonic Approach to Participatory Action

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A Sonic Approach to Participatory Action
A Sonic Approach to Participatory Action

In this essay, the composer Constanza Bizraelli reflects on the potential of technology to channel sound practices as radical participatory action, inspired by the workshop «Resonation: To Infinity & Beyond» of the One Beat residency program.

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Photo: Marija Mitrovic

Al son de las montañas y Urqukunapa takiynin

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Al son de las montañas y Urqukunapa takiynin

The Festival International de Música de Alturas (FIMA) is a pioneering Peruvian initiative that brings together, promotes, and integrates the music and culture of the mountains of the world. Listen to their most recent podcasts in Spanish and Quechua.

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Design: Sheila Acuña
Photo: Susana Perrottet
Sound: Magali Luque
Remix: Lupe Green

Ways of Doing Things Better

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Ways of Doing Things Better

Musicians operate in a market that demands constant productivity and innovation. After her participation in two workshops at the One Beat Virtual residency program, musicologist Monika Żyła calls for new modes of artistic production, based on sharing rather than competition.

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Photo: Victor Angeleas

Nothing Sounds the Way It Looks: NFF Essay Collection 2021

 «Nothing Sounds the Way It Looks».
Nothing Sounds the Way It Looks: NFF Essay Collection 2021
Nothing Sounds the Way It Looks: NFF Essay Collection 2021

In the essay collection «Nothing Sounds the Way It Looks» 30 writers from 17 countries reflect on their worries, dreams, and hopes in the 21st century. Inspired by the films of the 10th Norient Film Festival, divided into 8 central Norient Topics.

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Design: Šejma Fere

The «Problem» and Potential of Tradition

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The «Problem» and Potential of Tradition

The term tradition has often reinforced an essentialist notion of an artist’s relationship to their origins. In an essay inspired by the «One Beat» residency program, musicologist Rim Jasmin Irscheid is struck by musicians cultivating musical heritage as empowerment.

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Photo: Victor Angeleas

Reasoning with Inner City Rhythms

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Reasoning with Inner City Rhythms
Reasoning with Inner City Rhythms

This first episode of the podcast series «Modes of Listening & Sound Practices» explores the modes of listening that Maier and Kaur adopted on their sound walks through Berlin.

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Design: Mister Colfer

The Seduction of Meme Music

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The Seduction of Meme Music
The Seduction of Meme Music

Meme music went viral during the COVID-19 pandemic. Distributed via apps like TikTok, it might transform not only the way music is made, but also how it is consumed. An article about the cultural implications of an emerging digital format.

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Design: Robert Crahmer

What Public Enemy Song Would You Recommend?

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What Public Enemy Song Would You Recommend?
What Public Enemy Song Would You Recommend?

In their track «Burn Hollywood Burn», Public Enemy criticized the representation of Black people in Hollywood movies. The mentality and circumstances cultivating these issues are the same ones that indirectly disavow the humanity of minorities in technology and media today.

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Design: Eiliyas
Sound: Eiliyas

The Impossibility of «German» Music

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The Impossibility of «German» Music
The Impossibility of «German» Music

When the pandemic hit Germany’s music scenes, a group of managers called for a national music quota in order to save «domestic» music. In her essay, Melanie Schiller raises the question if music can be national in the first place.

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Design: Šejma Fere

Less Reality, More Fiction

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Less Reality, More Fiction
Less Reality, More Fiction

From a Western perspective, non-Western films are expected to be mainly driven by content, to portray the «misery» of the Other. Formal experiments are still rarely appreciated. Read an essay about the need to depart from so-called authenticity towards new stories.

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Design: Šejma Fere

5 Video Clips from Colombia: Machines of Resistance

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5 Video Clips from Colombia: Machines of Resistance
5 Video Clips from Colombia: Machines of Resistance

Since April 28 2021, Colombians have been on a national strike to tackle inequality, poverty and historical exclusion. This video list is a short trip through audiovisual utopias in which machines become vehicles of resistance.

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Design: Umbra
Remix: Bitterbabe