The Stars of Musiqa Sha’biyya

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The Stars of Musiqa Sha’biyya

For centuries dabke was a local tradition in Syria, but in the late 1990s, it has become urban. Thereby, the popular dance music was reimaginated and globalized. Under the name «new wave dabke» special stylistic idoms have become noticeable.

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Sound: Aam Taateel

From Democratic to Corporate

Norient Snap by Carla Sophie Tapparo
From Democratic to Corporate

The ways in which music videos generate money have changed since the days of MTV. The rise of YouTube came along with the hope for democratization, but this as been diluted due to corporatization. Is this a threat to cultural diversity?

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Design: Carla Sophie Tapparo
Photo: YouTube
Sound: Carla Sophie Tapparo

Sehnsucht nach der Einsamkeit

Norient Snap by Carla Sophie Tapparo
Sehnsucht nach der Einsamkeit

Im Zeitalter der universellen Verfügbarkeit sind einzelne Menschen obsolet geworden. Dafür jedoch, sagt das Hamburger Künstlerkollektiv Kommando Himmelfahrt, sind sie weniger einsam, oder nicht? 

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Design: Carla Sophie Tapparo
Photo: Kommando Himmelfahrt
Sound: Carla Sophie Tapparo

A Protest Song Without a Slogan

Norient Snap by Imtiaz Nasir
A Protest Song Without a Slogan

Often, the politics of a song are carried in its lyrics. However, can instrumental electronic music also create concrete criticism? An investigation of D. Glare's song «Gentrification Death Certificate».

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Design: Imtiaz Nasir, Akaliko Collective
Photo: Silke Bauer
Sound: D. Glare
Remix: The B Regiment

Registros de Audición

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Registros de Audición

For the Norient exhibition «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» the Mexican hybrid artist and label owner Julian Bonequi compiled a mixtape taken from live performances, radio shows, and studio recordings from his label Audition Records.

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Quote: Julian Bonequí, Julian Bonequi
Sound: Aam Taateel

Risking Your Life for YouTube

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Risking Your Life for YouTube

Karachi-based rapper and YouTube star Ali Gul Pir wants to be a man who matters. He attacks powerful warlords with satire and opposes the YouTube ban in Pakistan. For this he received death threats.

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Sound: Aam Taateel

Sculptor of Affect: Tim Hecker

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Sculptor of Affect: Tim Hecker
Sculptor of Affect: Tim Hecker

The electronic musician Tim Hecker is like an aesthetic engineer whose visceral live concerts deconstruct musical meanings.

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Quote: Deforrest Brown Jr., DeForrest Brown Jr.
Photo: Thomas Burkhalter
Sound: Tim Hecker

Copy and Past(e)

The Combination of found images with music tends to foreground emotional content
Copy and Past(e)

Recycling footage has long been a practice in music videos. By freeing images from their original temporality and intended pupose and setting them to music, artists transform their meaning and generate an emotional experience of the past.

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Sound: Aam Taateel

About an Utopian World: Aïsha Devi

Norient Snap by Carla Sophie Tapparo
About an Utopian World: Aïsha Devi

The music of of the electronic musician and singer Aïsha Devi creates a world of unheard sounds and utopian ideas. Read a sonic fiction in advance of her audiovisual live show at our new concert series.

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Design: Carla Sophie Tapparo
Sound: Aïsha Devi
Remix: Carla Sophie Tapparo

Sampling Stories Vol. 18: DJ Raph

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Sampling Stories Vol. 18: DJ Raph

After being invited by the Iwalewahaus Bayreuth the Nairobi-based electronic musician and producer DJ Raph did an artist residency in Germany, rummaging through the institution’s extensive music archive of ethnographic field recordings from Africa.

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Sound: Aam Taateel

Reckoning

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Reckoning

For his mix for the section «money» from the Norient exhibition «Seismographic Sounds» the german composer Johannes Kreidler transformed radically chopped sound samples into sonic goods that creep into your unconscious.

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