Lost and Found Folklore

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Lost and Found Folklore

After the 1974 revolution in Portugal, folklore music was still alive – and even more politicized as it caused tension within the different folklore groups. Ethnomusicologist Kimberly DaCosta Holton about the culture of the «ranchos folclóricos».

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Design: meLê yamomo
Sound: Grupo Folclórico de Santa Marta de Portuzelo

HK – Club Culture in an «Art Desert»

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HK – Club Culture in an «Art Desert»

The metropolis Hong Kong is a world finance and multi-cultural capital. But when it comes to culture, local artists call it an «art desert». Yet, the underground club music scene is working on a change.

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Design: Imtiaz Nasir, Akaliko Collective
Photo: Pxhere
Sound: Conch

Wahnsinn oder Wirklichkeit?

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Wahnsinn oder Wirklichkeit?

Im Video zum Stahlberger-Song «Du verwachsch wieder nume...» verwischt Regisseur Jovica Radisavljevic die Grenzen von Realität und Wahn. Hier erzählt er, wie es dazu kam und was es heisst, mit Minimal-Budget maximal kreativ zu sein.

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Design: Ali Sayah
Sound: Stahlberger
Remix: Ali Sayah

Sampling Stories Vol. 15: Eduardo Navas

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Sampling Stories Vol. 15: Eduardo Navas

In this interview Norient asked Eduardo Navas, one of the main scholars theorizing the phenomenon of remix, to clarify some of his points and to talk about algorithms, the surplus of remix studies, and cultural appropriation.

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NWA Came before the NWO

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NWA Came before the NWO

Iraqi-Canadian rapper The Narcicyst knows how it feels to be young and Muslim in a post-9/11 world. Today, he considers himself a world citizen and aims for an individual identity that includes his origin, his home, and his community.

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Quote: Yassin «The Narcicyst» Alsalman, Yassin «Narcy» Alsalman
Sound: Aam Taateel

Expeditions of Desire

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Expeditions of Desire

Ethnomusicologists used to travel to exotic islands to research local music. Today, their fieldtrips lead to scattered urban place. German scholar Oliver Seibt conducted three months of research in the Tokyo visual-kei scene, and stood out of the crowd.

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Design: meLê yamomo
Photo: Georges Seguin
Sound: Versailles

Escaping Loneliness Online

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Escaping Loneliness Online

The digitalization took away the centralized power of the music industry, but for some people it also became a secret tunnel out of prison. For the underground music scene in Cairo, digitalization was an avenue of freedom – well, at least for a while.

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Design: Ali Kazmi
Sound: Aam Taateel

Der Teufelskreis des Geldes

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Der Teufelskreis des Geldes

«Das Internet ist nicht demokratisch», sagt Andreas Ryser, Präsident des Musikverbands IndieSuisse. Und in sozialen Netzwerken bestimme das Geld, welche Musik gefunden werde. Doch die Digitalisierung birge auch Chancen für die Finanzierung von Musik.

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Quote: Andreas Ryser
Design: Carla Sophie Tapparo
Sound: Carla Sophie Tapparo

Belonging

Can Sounds Give Us a Feeling of Belonging?
Belonging

To belong to a place, a country, or a city is an old fashioned way to live in a world of multi-sited modernities. Instead, we create our belonging through friends, information, images, and sounds across the globe. A «belonging» mix by Slugabed.

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Quote: Norient
Sound: Aam Taateel

The Sample Shapes the Song

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The Sample Shapes the Song

Swiss-Ghanaian singer and musician Joy Frempong of the duo OY made a trip to Southern and Western Africa to collect sounds and stories for their music. She tells us how she re-works these samples and what she is sometimes worries about.

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Design: Safwan Subzawri, Safwan Subzwari
Sound: Aam Taateel

Everybody Has a Voice: Audrey Chen

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Everybody Has a Voice: Audrey Chen

Music is more than just melodies and rhythm. It has a guttural level, and contains sound that is free from symbolic meanings. The singer Audrey Chen is obsessed with these acoustic materialities and creates a sonic language with her voice.

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Photo: Raisa Galofre
Sound: Audrey Chen & Richard Scott
Extra: Luise Wolf