Tracing the Routes Through Which Music Moves

Tracing the Routes Through Which Music Moves

Sumangala Damodaran situates Delhi as a site for the unfolding of a radical imaginary through music. She shares her artistic journeys in the city and recent work that traces a thick constellation of connections between Afroasian contemporary musics and migratory movements.

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Quote: Sumangala Damodaran

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Sound: Sumangala Damodaran

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Needling Nostalgia: The Then and Now of Delhi’s Independent Music Scene

Needling Nostalgia: The Then and Now of Delhi’s Independent Music Scene

Shomi Gupta

Shomi reflects on the music scene taking shape at a certain moment in Delhi, the voices, people, sounds, influences, concerns, and genres creating it, and the moment that it has arrived at now.

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Remix: Geetanjali Kalta

When Creativity Meets Chaos

When Creativity Meets Chaos

Turkana

Episode 15 of the «TIMEZONES» podcast series offers insight into the uncompressed underground music scene in Kampala, Uganda, shaped by many inspiring and upcoming artists.

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Accompanied by Physics

Accompanied by Physics

Philipp Rhensius, Andi Otto

How does wood sound? This is one of the questions in Andi Otto’s interactive sound installation at Klangmoorschope 2023. Listen to an audio essay in which he discusses his way of relating to the environment with sound.

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Quote: Andi Otto

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5 Video Clips from Istanbul Underground

5 Video Clips from Istanbul Underground

Alara Çelik

Istanbul: the bridge between West and East. This list is curated to show another side of the most populated Turkish city, the one that doesn’t make the headlines. Enjoy a diverse selection of music from bone-crushing metal to piercing rap.

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Design: Gürkan Gürler

Sound: pembe, Parya x Rinxlaya, Kaptan Kadavra, sorrynobody

Remix: Nicolas Castelli

Apocalypse Doomish

Apocalypse Nowish

Philipp Rhensius, Zaira Oram

In their sound installation for Klang Moor Schopfe, the collective Zaira Oram explores the notion of the apocalypse. Listen to an audio essay featuring the collective’s initiators Francesca Ceccherini and Eleonora Stassi.

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Design: Janina Neustupny

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Norient Playlist 9/23: Delhi

Norient Playlist 9/23: Delhi

Subhadra Kamath

When our playlist curator began performing, the Delhi indie scene consisted of not more than a handful of women who dared to write and perform music in a largely male-dominated space. The handful grew over the years. This playlist pays tribute to the womxn of Indie Delhi.

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Design: Omar El Sadek

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Hide, Don’t Show

Hide, Don’t Show

Philipp Rhensius, ENCOR

Challenging the perception of its listeners is at the core vision of the collective Encor Studio. Listen to an audio essay in which they discuss their site-specific installation «Adsum» which creates moments of pure presence.

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Design: Janina Neustupny

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A Huge Reservoir of Life

A Huge Reservoir of Life

Philipp Rhensius, Juan José López, Ludwig Berger

The first form of communication was not language but vibration. Listen to an audio essay featuring the biologist Juan José López and sound artist Ludwig Berger who sonify species that soon threaten to become completely extinct – if we don’t listen.

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Quote: Juan Lopez

Design: Janina Neustupny

Photo: Klang Moor Schopfe

Sound: Philipp Rhensius

5 Video Clips from the U.K.: The Naff in Sound

5 Video Clips from the U.K.: The Naff in Sound

Alex Rigotti

So-called naff music is considered as lacking in style or taste. It’s not the kind of music you’d claim to be a fan of, but Alex Rigotti finds it to be a hidden side of national British identity.

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Quote: Alex Rigotti

Design: Maria Uthe

Sound: 5ive & Queen, Mr Blobby, Cher Lloyd, Tinchy Stryder feat. N Dubz

Remix: Nicolas Castelli

Funkot, Gabber’s Distant Cousin from the Far East

Funkot, Gabber’s Distant Cousin from the Far East

Gisela Swaragita

One day, when sitting in an angkot minivan in Bogor, our writer had a weird encounter that made her ears ring; it was funkot, a mix of gabber and Indonesian folk. An essay inspired by the music of Animistic Beliefs who will perform at MUTEK festival 2023.

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Quote: Gisela Swaragita

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