Norient Playlist 8/23: Bishkek & Central Asia

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Norient Playlist 8/23: Bishkek & Central Asia
Norient Playlist 8/23: Bishkek & Central Asia

Listen to this mix of dance music from Central Asia. For this, our Bishkek-based contributor compiled a rather diverse playlist of dance music from Kazakh and Kyrgyz musicians, both pop and trending and underground.

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Sound: Jax, PADRE

Der Rundfunk als Waffe

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Der Rundfunk als Waffe
Der Rundfunk als Waffe

Warum bezeichnet Irans Revolutionsführer Ali Khamenei Israel als «bösartigen Krebstumor, der entfernt und vernichtet werden muss»? Über die persisch-sprachige Nazipropaganda im Rundfunk und ihre bis ins 21. Jahrhundert spürbaren Folgen.

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Sound: Casanora

Going to Town With Listening

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Going to Town With Listening
Going to Town With Listening

Alex Rigotti explores the city of Bern, Switzerland, using only their hearing – and in doing so, uncovers new worlds of understanding perception and the environment.

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Design: Ali Sayah

Norient Playlist 7/23: Seoul

Norient Playlist 7/23: Seoul.
Norient Playlist 7/23: Seoul
Norient Playlist 7/23: Seoul

From dreamy, hypnotic ballads, to fragments of classical piano, to glitchy and playful electronica ¬– Arexibo has promised a playlist that forgoes a consistency with genre and instead, blends together distinct artists to create a love letter for Seoul.

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Sound: KIRARA

Listening Through Others

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Listening Through Others

Curator and researcher Bhavisha Panchia crafts a thoughtful review of Gilles Aubry’s «Sawt, Bodies, Species: Sonic Pluralism in Morocco», detailing that the book is a conscious revisit of what it means to listen to and through sonic and musical heritage.

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Norient: From Tastemaking to Multimodal Storytelling (Part 1)

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Norient: From Tastemaking to Multimodal Storytelling (Part 1)
Norient: From Tastemaking to Multimodal Storytelling (Part 1)

What role and methods can a privileged Western person adopt when curating contemporary music from a global perspective? In his ongoing endeavor to understand the world through music and sound, Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter suggests 13 curatorial principles.

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Being on the Right Side of History

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Being on the Right Side of History
Being on the Right Side of History

For Iranian metal musician Nikan Khosravi, music is a way to articulate protest. Having lived under state repression, metal, as he explains in this personal essay, helped him to stay candid with himself and to express his dark feelings.

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Sound: Casanora

Bass Drums, Cowbells, Tambourines

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Bass Drums, Cowbells, Tambourines
Bass Drums, Cowbells, Tambourines

Woher kommt die Motivation, ein Festival für Musik aus Iran und der iranischen Diaspora zu organisieren? In diesem Text erinnert sich Klangteppich-Festivalmacherin Franziska Buhre an eine prägende Reise nach New Orleans im Jahre 2016.

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Quote: Charles Taylor
Sound: Casanora

Norient Playlist 6/23: Mexico City

Norient Playlist 6/23: Mexico City.
Norient Playlist 6/23: Mexico City
Norient Playlist 6/23: Mexico City

The tracks in the June playlist are a current source of inspiration for the Mexico City-based musician El irreal Veintiuno. It consists of a bunch of tracks somewhere located between experimental electronic music, tribal and dembow.

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Sound: Siete Catorce

Contentious Entertainment on TikTok

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Contentious Entertainment on TikTok
Contentious Entertainment on TikTok

An expanding group of Malian TikTokers amuses its audiences with funny virals, influenced by the country’s war-torn context. Here, our author asks: what can these audiovisual snapshots tell about the precarity between conflict and entertainment?

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Design: Boubacar Sissoko
Sound: Crystal Abidin, Lex Papy
Remix: Luca Bruls

Dimensions of Sonic Pluralism

Snap Artwork by Frederico Floeter
Dimensions of Sonic Pluralism

In this introduction to his book «Sawt, Bodies, Species», Gilles Aubry situates his research project on the sonic dimensions of our environment, tracing alternate genealogies of sound, listening, and technology in North Africa.

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