• Bells – con sordino (credit: Peter Conradin Zumthor).
    Podcast
    Percussionist Peter Conradin Zumthor and inventor Gabriel Schneider modify the sound on the bell of the Reformed Church in Gais. Located in the main square of the town, the artistic intervention to this most familiar of sounds produces a hypnotic collective listening experience.
  • Glowth (credit: Abhishek Mathur).
    Podcast
    We enter a world hidden from our eyes and experience sights, sounds and sensations invisible to our everyday perception. Mercedes Borguńska and Giulia Hess bring to life bioluminescent fungi, lichens, algae and microorganisms, translating the micro-system of the moor into a macro-universe.
  • Asphalte Gais (credit: Florian Bach).
    Podcast
    Florian Bach and Alexandre Babel play with the idea of negative space and absence in this imagination of their work Ashphalte. Elements such as light, color and sculptures change the objects and their surroundings and create a counterpoint between sound and image.
  • Transposed Humidity (credit: Claudia Stöckli).
    Podcast
    Claudia Stöckli describes the political, social and spiritual motivations behind her installation, in which changes in humidity trigger changes in the sound composition. She is joined in this conversation by Mouhssine Bousouiss, a percussionist from the Gnawa community, whose music and healing practices are an integral part of the work.
  • Marianne Halter & Mario Marchisella ~ Singsong 2025 (for Therese) - (credit: Theresa Beyer)
    Podcast
    Marianne Halter and Mario Marchisella are interested in disturbing the familiar in a way which makes one question everyday perspectives. The landscape of the moor is invaded by the songs of birds who imitate mechanical and electronic sounds as a strategy to survive and adapt to their surroundings.
  • Waves Made of Nothing (credit: Christian Schroeckel).
    Podcast

    «I've been fascinated by how circuits and electricity and media change the way you experience the world.» Tim Shaw

  • Calder Plays Theremin Swinging Intervention (credit: Abhishek Mathur).
    Podcast

    «The theremin has swallowed me into its microtonal universe.» Dorit Chrysler

  • Last Rural Effort (credit: Peter Bosch).
    Podcast

    «We try to create a kind of living creature that creates its own music.» Peter Bosch & Simone Simons

  • Le Slie's (credit: Abhishek Mathur).
    Podcast

    «Friction brings movement and this friction makes me move personally.» Fabrizio di Salvo & Roberto Maqueda

  • Kanako Saito (credit: Abhishek Mathur).
    Podcast
    Japanese artist Kanako Saito’s works explore the dualities of control and the uncontrollable, artificial and natural, city and countryside. Creating an installation with objects from the surroundings of Gais, she endeavours to take meaning out of materials and change how they are understood.
  • Vanessà Heer (credit: Abhishek Mathur).
    Podcast
    Vanessà Heer brings a revolutionary feminist perspective to the alpsegen, a traditional prayer chanted by herdsmen in the Swiss alps. The reimagined hymn is a tribute to inspirational women, living or dead, a call to be imbued with their spirit and power.
  • Shiv Pawan Band (photo: Neelansh Mittra).
    Film
    Abhishek Mathur, a musician in an ensemble band himself, ventures out to spend a day with a ceremonious gathering of brass bands. He reflects on the tensions and contradictions layering the multidimensional worlds of bandsmen and the sonic explosions that they create.
  • Timezones.
    Audio Talk
    How can people work together across the constraints of time and space, and the cultures they determine? In this talk, Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter and the artists Abhishek Mathur and Suvani Suri discuss their work on the experimental podcast series TIMEZONES.
  • Timezones 3
    Podcast
    TIMEZONES Episode 3. Four contemporary artists with a connection to the city of Delhi reflect upon their diverse and evolving practices.