I Listened, Therefore I Was
Songs can entail memories about who we are. In an essay inspired by the OneBeat workshop «Everything Old is New Again», our writer reflects on the role of music as a source of one’s own biography.
Songs can entail memories about who we are. In an essay inspired by the OneBeat workshop «Everything Old is New Again», our writer reflects on the role of music as a source of one’s own biography.
As a teenager, our writer experienced a natural disaster, and the only radio nearby united the survivors. Yet, as she learned in OneBeat’s Radio Building workshop, radio can also have dividing effects.
At Klang Moor Schopfe 2021, Philipp Rhensius created 12 experimental audio essays. Listen to a podcast inspired by the sound installation of Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) & Albert Oehlen.
At Klang Moor Schopfe 2021, Philipp Rhensius created 12 experimental audio essays. Listen to a podcast inspired by the sound installation of Rie Nakajima.
At Klang Moor Schopfe 2021, Philipp Rhensius created 12 experimental audio essays. Listen to a podcast inspired by the sound installation of A. Frei, Franziska Koch (OOR Saloon) in collaboration with Nelson Irsapoullé, Tracy September, and Vivian Wang Sommer.
At Klang Moor Schopfe 2021, Philipp Rhensius created 12 experimental audio essays. Listen to a podcast inspired by the sound installation of Ryoichi Kurokawa.
In part 2 of Guy Baron’s Norient series on his practice-based music research project «Post-Euphoria», he thinks about compositional strategies to interpret themes of recollection and reimagination.
How Rio has shaped its music over the centuries and invented its future through the vision of artists, creators, and scholars.
What is real and what is imagined? In her text inspired by a Laurie Anderson lecture, our writer thinks of listening as a possibility to become a stranger to oneself.
An experimental podcast full of samples from KMRUs music, and snippets from an interview conducted in his house in 2020, just before the COVID-19 Pandemic. Currently sound artist and experimental ambient musician KMRU lives in Berlin.
In a 4-part series, Guy Baron reflects upon the making of his album «Post-Euphoria». Utilizing practice-based research, he examines notions of nostalgia in relation to lost experiences and club music.