Sound Creates Reality: Sonic Fiction

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Sound Creates Reality: Sonic Fiction

Music is not escapism. It is a machine that creates reality. This is the core of Kodwo Eshun's masterful book «More Brilliant than the Sun». How Sonic Fiction challenges the oppressive prison called reality.

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Design: Ali Sayah
Sound: Ali Sayah

Sampling Stories Vol. 16: Eomac

Norient Snap by Uno
Sampling Stories Vol. 16: Eomac

Tracing the genesis of a track by producer Ian McDonnell (Eomac, Lakker) we can follow the steps to learn how sampling is used to replace a conventional vocal track and discuss questions on the circulation and handling of media material in times of Web 2.0.

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Design: Uno Design
Sound: Eomac, YouTube
Remix: Annafruit

Lost and Found Folklore

Norient Snap by meLê Yamono
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»

Norient Snap by Imtiaz Nasir
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?

Norient Snap by Ali Sayah
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

Norient Snap by meLê yamomo
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

Norient Snap by Carla Sophie Tapparo
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