From K-pop to reggaeton, from afrobeats, mahraganat to hyperpop. Music researcher and Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter guides us through new sounds of the world. Enjoy the playlist of this mixtape, produced for Swiss national radio SRF3.
Making field recordings is like tapping into an alien world. For our writer, it feels less like experiencing, more like becoming time itself.
Episode 11 of the «Timezones» podcast series delves into Budapest’s independent arts and music scene in the wake of the latest Hungarian parliamentary elections in April 2022.
In this sonic fiction, our writer depicts the Moroccan avant garde band Nass El Ghiwane as straying birds in search of a different life.
Listen to this playlist with a selection of tracks from the city’s underground producers.
Listen to this playlist of artists from Beirut. This selection features new and older releases by musicians across musical genres.
An introductory text to the Online Special «Norient City Sounds: Beirut». Special curator and writer Rayya Badran asks: what are the sounds of the aftermath of a collapse?
Filmmaker Nour Ouayda dwells on the details of the city of Beirut, Lebanon that she encounters on her walk toward the sea. Instead of looking upwards, her camera turns to the fast pace of her walking feet until she arrives at her destination.
Jad Atoui’s sound piece is a composition rife with electromagnetic frequencies, hums, and other machine sounds which continue to envelop the city of Beirut and its sleepless residents.
Lebanese artist Farah Awada was recording and filming in Beirut during its most turbulent events and most silent times. Her short video synthesizes these moments in a montage that avoids linear narration.
In this diaristic essay, Majd Shidiac conjures up his affecting responses to the sounds and compositions of musicians and practitioners that register the systemic violence the country has seen in the past few years.
