Voices in crowded urban terrains, the sonic shock of fighter jets. Some music can evoke ideas of the life it is made in – and create relationships. Read an essay by Majd Shidiac from the «Sonic Worlding» column.
ColumnIn this sonic fiction, our writer depicts the Moroccan avant garde band Nass El Ghiwane as straying birds in search of a different life.
Sonic DiaryIn this diaristic essay, Majd Shidiac conjures up his affecting responses to the sounds and compositions of musicians and practitioners that register the systemic violence the country has seen in the past few years.- Quotation
«I take notice of the looping eruptions, as if propelled in an active nuclear power plant.»
Short EssayCan one pursue the past through reimagining the present? Veteran musician Yacoub Abu Ghosh and sound experimentalist Rehab Hazgui talk to Norient about merging tradition with recent techniques at the «Mirath:Music Sound Exhibition», a project by the Goethe-Institut.