Gaza – When Beyond the Norm Becomes the Norm

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Gaza – When Beyond the Norm Becomes the Norm
Gaza – When Beyond the Norm Becomes the Norm

Episode 10 of the «Timezones» podcast series reflects the digital reality of being together as a people, thus shedding light on the challenges of working as a Palestinian artist today.

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Quote: Rehaf Al Batniji
Design: Šejma Fere
Photo: Rehaf Al Batniji

Sonic Gift-Giving on TikTok

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Sonic Gift-Giving on TikTok
Sonic Gift-Giving on TikTok

Since the advent of COVID-19, Algerian youth, artists, and studios have taken to TikTok to sell and promote the latest raï hits. One unique way for young people to engage in musical sociality is through so-called «sonic gifts».

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Quote: Luca Bruls
Design: Geke Zaal
Sound: Field Recordings, TikTok
Remix: Luca Bruls

When Silence Rises from Earth

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When Silence Rises from Earth
When Silence Rises from Earth

IR :: Sankara Future Dub Resurgence perform a ceremony for an anti-colonial future, recorded live at the Dub Museum in Kampala, Uganda.

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Quote: When Vision Meets Dub Architecture

Ears on/of Makiling

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Ears on/of Makiling
Ears on/of Makiling

A Timezones episode around the stories and sounds of Mount Makiling in the Philippines. A mythical site of tremendous importance for many Filipino artists.

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Design: Šejma Fere

A Mere Face in the Crowd

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A Mere Face in the Crowd
A Mere Face in the Crowd

What happens when young musicians leave their hometowns or their places of study and head for another city? Jakarta-based journalist Gisela Swaragita remembers her own case and looks back to her study-years in the South-Central Javanese metropole, Yogyakarta.

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Sound: Wukir Suryadi, Seahorse, Julian Abraham

Norient Playlist 02/22: Yogyakarta

Norient Playlist 02/22: Yogyakarta
Norient Playlist 02/22
Norient Playlist 02/22: Yogyakarta

Listen to this playlist of artists from Yogyakarta and their current releases.

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Design: Maria Uthe

Technology – The New Normal for Dhaka’s Artists

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Technology – The New Normal for Dhaka’s Artists
Technology – The New Normal for Dhaka’s Artists

An exploration of Dhaka’s transformation towards digitization and its ramifications for artists living and working in the capital of Bangladesh.

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Quote: Sounak Das
Design: Šejma Fere
Sound: BLKBX

A Curatorial Technique: Devising Process and Improvisation

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A Curatorial Technique: Devising Process and Improvisation
A Curatorial Technique: Devising Process and Improvisation

Curating exhibitions has often been a one-dimensional endeavor. Here, the curator Basak Senova suggests an approach that prioritizes constant feedback between artists and audience, as well as improvisation.

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Design: Elias Chen

The Public and the Intimate: Documenting a Curatorial Process #2

Snap Artwork by Sergio Salazar (On Exposing the Curatorial Us)
The Public and the Intimate: Documenting a Curatorial Process #2
The Public and the Intimate: Documenting a Curatorial Process #2

In this photo essay, Monia Acciari visualizes a curatorial process attempting to reconcile intimate and public absences, loss, and creativity.

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The Crime of Listening to What You Want

Snap Artwork by Sergio Salazar (The Crime of Listening to What You Want)
The Crime of Listening to What You Want
The Crime of Listening to What You Want

As a child, our writer made mixtapes out of recorded radio shows. In this personal essay, she explains how she disobeyed the station’s official music curation.

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The Silent Mass I Carry Around

Snap Artwork by Sergio Salazar (The Silent Mass I Carry Around)
The Silent Mass I Carry Around
The Silent Mass I Carry Around

Even at a time of fragmented digital selves, people often align with a single self-description, suppressing their multiplicities. In this essay, our author attempts to re-sample the embattled term (self-)curation, in search of its supposed emancipatory potential.

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