Belonging

«Home is where my dashboard is.» 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. The British musician Greg Feldwick aka Slugabed contributed a mix for the section «belonging» from the Norient exhibition Seismographic Sounds.

Belonging (Introduction from Seismographic Sounds)

I feel at home within my own four walls. I feel connected to my country. I feel that I am between two worlds as a second generation migrant. This chapter shows that belonging today is even more complex: I create my belonging through friends, information, images and sounds across the globe. The moment I cut two seconds from a song or a film and paste it into my track or music clip, I create a connection to the world. I am what I know and consume. I live in a virtual space, according to the motto: «home is where my dashboard is.» But is it a reality that in global music-making the URL replaces the ZIP Code and music becomes abstract, free from geography? Can music be free of societal, political and economical realities of place and time? And how does the biography of a musician enter his or her music?

This text was published first as an introduction to the chapter «Belonging» in the second Norient book Seismographic Sounds.

Biography

Greg Feldwick, aka Slugabed, creates music which is at once complex, deep, thoughtful and above all distinctive. It channels the energy of the best of today’s bass music, through spacey bleeps and meditative melodies to explore the outermost reaches of electronic music making today. Follow him on Youtube, Spotify, or SoundCloud.

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Seismographic Sounds
Seismographic Sounds: Visions of a New World
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The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds: Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries.

Published on February 16, 2018

Last updated on August 11, 2020

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