Die Welt hören – zum Beispiel Lagos

Interview

Der nigerianische Medienkünstler Emeka Ogboh sammelt die Klänge seiner Stadt Lagos. Eines seiner Projekte heisst Lagossoundscape Wie klingt die Hauptstadt von Nigeria?

Biography

Michael Spahr (VJ Rhaps) is a historian MA, journalist, and media artist. He was on the board of Norient from 2008 until 2014. He developed the website norient.com. He was the co-founder and co-director (2009–2014) of the Norient Musikfilm Festival. He contributed with his video art to the audio-visual scientific media performances of Norient. He was the host and DJ of Norients monthly radio show Sonic Traces on Radio RaBe. He works as a freelance artist, film maker, and journalist in Bern (Switzerland). Follow him on his Website.

Published on July 18, 2011

Last updated on August 13, 2020

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Gewobene Klänge am Theaterspektakel

Podcast

by Michael Spahr,

Simon Grab

Die Musikerin und Gestalterin Stini Arn hat einen Webstuhl zum Musikinstrument gemacht, ohne aber die ursprüngliche Funktion zu verändern. Am Zürcher Theaterspektakel produziert sie jeden Tag Musik und webt gleichzeitig die Hüllen für die CDs mit der Webstuhl-Musik.

Norient hat sie im Webstall besucht – ein Beitrag für Radio Bern RaBe.

Die Schweizer Klangkünstlerin Stini Arn lebte unter anderem in New York, London, Berlin und Bamako. Jetzt lebt sie im Bündnerland, wo sie ihren Webstall mit ihrem präparierten Webstuhl hat. Die Inspiration für das Projekt Webstall stammt allerdings nicht aus der Schweizerischen Geräuschlandschaft, wie sie in folgendem Video erklärt:

Seit den 1990er-Jahren schafft Stini Arn Klangkunst, macht Performances und Installation, produziert Hörspiele und Theatermusik. Einen Überblick über ihr Schaffen gibt es im persönlichen Online-Archiv.

Das Gespräch mit Stini Arn fand im Rahmen des Norient Projekts Sonic Traces: From Switzerland statt.

Biography

Michael Spahr (VJ Rhaps) is a historian MA, journalist, and media artist. He was on the board of Norient from 2008 until 2014. He developed the website norient.com. He was the co-founder and co-director (2009–2014) of the Norient Musikfilm Festival. He contributed with his video art to the audio-visual scientific media performances of Norient. He was the host and DJ of Norients monthly radio show Sonic Traces on Radio RaBe. He works as a freelance artist, film maker, and journalist in Bern (Switzerland). Follow him on his Website.

Biography

Simon Grab, the co-founder of ganzerplatz soundstudios has been an active musician and producer in a wide range of musical contexts. As a composer and sound artist he produces music & sounddesign for feature films, documentaries, theatre and radio. In live performances and installations he uses the venue as an acoustic playground. He likes exploring new grounds by negating existing borders. Follow him on Youtube, Instagram, or BandCamp.

Published on August 29, 2011

Last updated on October 20, 2020

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Sonic Traces: From Switzerland

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The Value of Listening

Podcast

by Thomas Burkhalter

Charles Hirschkind, author of the book The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics, talks about Cassette Sermons, YouTube-Clips and the value of Listening in Egypt. With a Quran recitation by Abdul Basit Abd us-Samad, a Nasheed by Imad Rami, and field recordings by Seth Ayyaz.

Check this post by Charles Hirschkind on the Egypt Demonstrations of 2011.

Sheikh Abdul Basit Abd us-Samad

This Podcast was produced for the project Global Prayers.

Biography

Thomas Burkhalter, PhD, is an anthropologist, multidisciplinary artist, and writer from Bern, Switzerland. He is the founder and director of Norient and the Norient Festival (winner Special Prize for Music 2025 – Swiss Music Prizes). Currently, Burkhalter's focus lies on his new music/AV duo, Melodies In My Head, and the podcast Long Take: Life as an Artist. He is a co-editor of the 2025 released book Home is Where the Heart Strives (Norient Books). Burkhalter has co-directed documentary films, including Contradict (Berner Filmpreis 2020, Al-Jazeera Witness), and created AV/theatre performances. He is the author and co-editor of several books, such as Local Music Scenes and Globalization: Transnational Platforms in Beirut (Routledge) and The Arab Avant Garde: Musical Innovation in the Middle East (Wesleyan University Press). His experimental radio feature, Gqom Edits – A Durban Visit, was nominated for the Prix Europa in 2017. Burkhalter teaches regularly at universities, leads workshops for arts institutions, and, since 2022, has produced the Norient Mixtape for Swiss National Radio SRF3. He currently serves on the board of the ERC/UKRI-funded project Beyond 1932 (King’s College London), Echographies: Journal of Sound Ethnography (Chicago/Zürich), and C:Pop – Transdisciplinary Research Center for Popular Music Cultures and Creative Economies (University of Paderborn). Burkhalter’s work combines personal and global perspectives, often in close collaboration with artists and thinkers from across the world. Follow him on Instagram, Research Gate, Academia.edu, Bandcamp, Spotify, or Meta.

Published on April 11, 2011

Last updated on April 02, 2024

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Listening

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