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By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on August 28, 2018
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 28 August 2018 in
BLOG
Berlin-based producer Kritzkom rarely works with samples and, accordingly, on her 2016 techno track «Inner March for Utopia» synth basses and melodies dominate. But if one digs deeper one can find the traces of a sample of the Kurdish national anthem.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Music Production, Sampling, Sampling Stories, War |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on May 4, 2018
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 4 May 2018 in
BLOG
After being invited by the Iwalewahaus Bayreuth the Nairobi-based electronic musician and producer did an artist residency in Germany, rummaging through the institution’s extensive music archive of ethnographic field recordings from Africa.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Belonging, Ritual, Sampling, Sampling Stories, Tradition |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on April 18, 2018
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 18 April 2018 in
BLOG
In the tracks of the San Francisco-based artist, sampling is as much identity-generating as a political tool. Here are five reasons why sampling is so important in the ambient-shaped tracks of the upcoming producer.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Belonging, Diaspora, Gender Roles, Protest, Sampling, Sampling Stories |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on April 1, 2018
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 1 April 2018 in
BLOG
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.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Music Production, Sampling, Sampling Stories, Voyeurism |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on March 10, 2018
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) and Theresa Beyer (Norient) on 10 March 2018 in
ACADEMIC
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.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged Appropriation, Hybridity, Remix, Sampling Stories |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on February 10, 2018
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 10 February 2018 in
BLOG
With the #rojava campaign female:pressure aimed to raise awareness around the resistance movement in Northern Syria. We meet one of the artists who have contributed and sampled women fighters.
Posted in BLOG, XFEATURED | Tagged Ethics, Money, Sampling, Sampling Stories, War |
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on January 5, 2018
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on 5 January 2018 in
BLOG
Chino Amobi is heavily sampling in his tracks, from airport soundscapes to chicken clucks and – not least – gun shots. In this short quote he explains why the latter are in fact uniting people.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Game Culture, Sampling, Sampling Stories, Seismographic Sounds, Utopia, Violence |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on December 26, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 26 December 2017 in
BLOG
The heavily sample-based tracks by Estonian electronic producer Mihkel Kleis show the total disembodiment of the samples from their sources. This approach becomes apparent when both listening to the tracks but also looking behind the scenes of its production.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Ethics, Music Production, Sampling, Sampling Stories |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on October 9, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 9 October 2017 in
BLOG
«Volya» is the only record so far in which the Ukrainian experimentalist has used sampling material with a strong political connotation: field recordings from the revolutions in Kiev. A background talk about the soundscape of the Maidan.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Protest, Sampling, Sampling Stories, Soundscape, War |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on September 22, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 22 September 2017 in
BLOG
It is the very discrete mixture of samples, jazz vocals, folk spirit, live instrumentation and experimental electronics that characterizes the weird and beautiful song sketches of interdisciplinary artist Yatta Zoker from Brooklyn, NY.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Belonging, Diaspora, Sampling, Sampling Stories |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on August 10, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 10 August 2017 in
STORIES
Aniruddha Das understands sampling as a political, yet militant instrument. In the interview he gives insight into his sampling practice and talks about musical exoticism, political meaning, and his use of distortion.
Posted in STORIES, XFEATURED | Tagged Appropriation, Diaspora, Exotica, Migration, Race, Sampling, Sampling Stories |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on August 9, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 9 August 2017 in
BLOG
Digging samples in the tracks of Daniel Jakob led me to two interesting potentials of the production method: sampling as a hidden means of producing tracks and sampling of ambient sounds as cultural signifiers.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Music Production, place, Sampling, Sampling Stories |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on May 15, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) and Katie Gately on 15 May 2017 in
BLOG
A psychological approach to sampling: the American avantgarde-pop musician Katie Gately samples familiar, sometimes scary sounds and noises form the everyday that are deeply connected to her childhood memory.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Loneliness, Music Production, Sampling, Sampling Stories |
By Gregory Markus on April 19, 2017
By Gregory Markus on 19 April 2017 in
BLOG
We trace the history of the carillon of the biggest church in Rotterdam, the Grote of Sint-Laurenskerk. Its bell sounds play an important role in the tracks of the compilation «010», released by the Dutch initiative RE:VIVE.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged City, Music Production, Sampling, Sampling Stories |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on March 22, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 22 March 2017 in
BLOG
With her new project, COOL FOR YOU, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Vika Kirchenbauer tends to «decompose harmonies as colonizers». What comes out are high-pitched voices, unfamiliar harmonies, and rumbling and raw rhythms.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Appropriation, colonialism, Ethics, Othering, religion, Sampling, Sampling Stories |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on March 3, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 3 March 2017 in
BLOG
In times of constantly bubbling news tickers that have long ago stopped covering sport events only, Berlin-based James Whipple has produced a LP that is dealing with the resultant feeling of information overload.
Posted in BLOG, XFEATURED | Tagged Game Culture, Meaning, Sampling, Sampling Stories, War |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on February 17, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 17 February 2017 in
BLOG
In «Libres» Argentine producer Moro is bridging the Atlantic slave trade with the current refugee crisis. The main element of the track is a sample of chain sounds, transformed into a historically meaningful rhythm.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Music Production, Protest, Sampling, Sampling Stories |
