By Derek Walmsley on September 4, 2018
By Derek Walmsley on 4 September 2018 in
STORIES
Violence may be a frequent theme in UK grime music, but its influence on the aesthetics of the music is stronger than its connection to real life disputes. War is everywhere in grime lyrics, but violence is fictionalized.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Butterz, Crazy Titch, Derek Walmsley, Destruction VIP, Devilman, Dizzee Rascal, Dub, dubstep, Elijah & Skilliam, Eskimo Vocal, explosions, Flow Dan, Forward Rhythm, gat, glock, God´s Gift, grime, gun fingers, guns, heat, Hip Hop, Jammer, Lethal B, Logan Sama, London, Lord Of The Mics, Mc, Noise, Othering, Pow, pumpy, rapper, Rinse.fm, Roll Deep, Ruff Sqwad, Seismographic Sounds, shotty, skeng, Skepta, Slix, The Essentials, The Wire, Tinchy Stryder, UK, UK garage, Violence, War, weapons, Wiley |
By Rudolf Eb.er on March 23, 2018
By Rudolf Eb.er on 23 March 2018 in
BLOG
Is noise music a rebellion against liberalism, propaganda and conformism? Is it warfare against overfed, ignorant and cold societies? We asked noise artist Rudolf Eb.er what noise music is about. Here he guides us through names, artistic concepts, and subgenres.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged anton webern, Arnold Schönberg, Avant-Garde, Black Metal, chaos, conformism, Counter-Culture, dadaist movement, doom metal, dystopia, Edgar Varèse, fluxus, György Ligeti, human conditioning, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krzysztof Penderecki, l’arte dei rumori, Luigi Nono, Luigi Russolo, Morton Feldman, Musique Concrète, Noise, occultist, Pierre Schaeffer, Propaganda, roscoe mitchell, Rudolf eb.er, Seismographic Sounds, Sun Ra, Violence, War, warfare, William S. Burroughs |
By Christophe Thockler on February 11, 2018
By Christophe Thockler on 11 February 2018 in
VIDEO
«Images can hit harder than war», writes the music video director Christophe Thockler. Here, he reports about the shoot of the song «Arterial» from the Electronica musician Lusine for which he used real ox blood.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Arterial, Cyberpunk, Ethics, images, Lusine, materiality, music video, ox blood, Post Digital, science fiction, Seattle, Seismographic Sounds, vampire, Violence, War |
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on January 5, 2018
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) and Hannes Liechti (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 Chino Amobi, Diamond Black Hearted Boy, Game Culture, Gun Shots, Music Production, NON Worldwide, Sampling, Sampling Motivations: Atmosphere, Sampling Motivations: Identity, Sampling Motivations: Politics, Sampling Stories, science fiction, Seismographic Sounds, Utopia, Violence, War |
By Vladimir Lenhart on October 25, 2017
By Vladimir Lenhart on 25 October 2017 in
VIDEO
The 2013 video «Esi mi dobar» by Serbian hip hop group Bad Copy is a persiflage on postwar Serbia where the true gangsters are not getting caught and no one seems to care. The video shows kids playing with big guns. Exotica or bitter reality?
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Djolodjolo, Esi mi dobar, Hip Hop, Irony, Parody, Protest, Rocky Balboa, Saša Popović, Seismographic Sounds, Serbia, Sky Wikluh, Slobodan Milošević, Tupac Shakur, Violence, Vladimir Lenhart, War |
By Pascal Rudolph on September 19, 2017
By Pascal Rudolph on 19 September 2017 in
VIDEO
The progressive rock band The D/A Method has been described as a unique addition to the Pakistani music landscape. With Gali Films and its director Kamal Khan, they recently published a video clip of the song «The Desert Journey». An interview.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Bruce Soord, Daniel Arthur Panjwaneey, Gali Films, Gul Muhammad, Istvan Csabai, Kamal Khan, Loneliness, music video, Pakistan, Pascal Rudolph, progressive rock, prostitution, Sounds of Kolachi, Sounds of Pakistan, Talha Alvie, The D/A Method, Umair Dar, Usama Siddiq, Violence, Waquas Hussain |
By Mona Aurich on August 25, 2017
By Mona Aurich on 25 August 2017 in
VIDEO
Our author understands the 2014 music video «I·M·A·M (jj Remix)» by Swedish rapper Silvana Imam as a call for fight. She finds proof in both the lyrics and the video footage. Further she asks: who will be included in the revolution, proclaimed by Imam?
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Activism, Elin Kastlander, I.M.A.M., Mika Gustafson, Mona Aurich, Olivia Kastebring, Queer Feminism, Seismographic Sounds, Silvana Imam, Social Movement, Sweden, Violence, Women's Quota Law |
By Martin Daughtry on February 24, 2017
By Martin Daughtry on 24 February 2017 in
VIDEO
By sampling footage from contemporary sci-fi and action films, the video «Mecha» by Nguzunguzu appears to take the same delight in the spectacle of combat as the Italian Futurists did at the beginning of the last century.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Anagrammatic Violence, dystopia, Hyperfuturism, Jude MC, Mecha, MechWarrior, Nguzunguzu, Sampling, Seismographic Sounds, Technofuture, The Matrix, Transformer, Violence, War |
By Arie Amaya Akkermans on February 20, 2017
By Arie Amaya Akkermans on 20 February 2017 in
VIDEO
Media converts real wars into long distance entertainment. But the condition of war and the fantasy of it belong to the same articulation of a collective desire. It’s this what the energetic US clubmusic duo Nguzunguzu is using as sonic elements in their music.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Battlefield, Death, Mecha, media, Musique Concrète, Nguzunguzu, science fiction, Seismographic Sounds, sounds of war, Violence, War |
By John Hutnyk on May 25, 2016
By John Hutnyk on 25 May 2016 in
VIDEO
Supermarkets are a popular setting for music videos. The cultural theorist John Hutnyk comments on this and presents a kind of a Marxist theory of shopping.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged alienation, Animal Mystik, Bladerunner, Civil War, department store, Eric Wareheim, Esther Springett, family life, farms, Gazelle Twin, Ham, J.R. Sebastian, James Tuovinen, Jay-Z, John Hutnyk, Jukka-Pekka, Labor, lifestyle, Marxist theory, Money, Olimpia Splendid, police, production, puppets, reproduction Global, Ridley Scott, Sakari Pippo, Santa’s Massive Robbery, Seismographic Sounds, shift workers, shopfitters, shopping, Shopping Trance, Siinai, storage boxes, Supermarket, The Belly of the Beast, toy store, trolley, trolley-rage, vegetables, Violence, Vladimir Gruev, wages, Walter Benjamin, zeitgeist |
By Elijah Wald on January 26, 2016
By Elijah Wald on 26 January 2016 in
VIDEO
In their 2014 music video «La Bala», the Mexican narcocorrido stars Los Tigres Del Norte condemn the life of crime – quite unusual for norteño musicians. Here, our author talks about the ambivalence one can see in the band’s public representation.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Crime, Drug War, Elijah Wald, Los Tigres del Norte, Mexico, Migration, Narco, Narco Cultura, Narcocorrido, norteño, Seismographic Sounds, Sergio Arau, Tradition, USA, Violence, War |
By Monzer Darwish on January 20, 2015
By Monzer Darwish on 20 January 2015 in
BLOG
In Syrian Metal is War, I provide a portrait of musicians who play metal music during the Syrian war. While other people choose to fight and kill, they play music. Screened as a Partial Rough Cut on January 17, 2015, at 6th Norient Musikfilm Festival.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged 6. Norient Musikfilm Festival, Aleppo, Damaskus, Destruction, documentary, Experience, Hamah, Homs, Krieg, Lattakia, Metal, Metalheads, Monzer Darwish, New Wave Metal, Seismographic Sounds, Syria, Syrian Metal is War, Syrien, Violence, War |
By Michael Spahr (Norient) on January 14, 2012
By Michael Spahr (Norient) on 14 January 2012 in
VIDEO
Der Film «Hit Me With Music» bietet vielseitige Einblicke in das jamaikanische Musikgenre Dancehall. – Am 14.1.2012 am 3. Norient Musikfilm Festival in Bern.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged «Hit me with Music», 3. Norient Musikfilm Festival 2012, Bern, Dancehall, Documentary Film, Goldrush International, Homophobie, Jamaica, Kingston, Reggae, Switzerland, Violence, Wildlife |
By Marc Dietrich on December 26, 2011
By Marc Dietrich and Martin Seeliger on 26 December 2011 in
ACADEMIC
Zur Inszenierung von deutschen Rappern im Spannungsfeld von kultureller Tradition und politischem Diskurs. – «Bitte erzählt mir nix von Gangstarap, meine Jungs da draußen würden 50 Cent erstechen.»
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged 4 4 da mess, 50 Cent, A-zad, afro-american culture, Aggro Berlin, Azad, Bambi, Boogie Down Productions, Bushido, Conscious Rap, Da Fource, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Gangsta-Rap, Gangster, Ghetto Culture, ghetto tech, Global Ghettotech, globalization, Hip Hop, Ice Cube, Ice-T, Migration, Mobb Deep, Moses P, N.W.A., Niggaz With Attitude, PA Sports, prostitution, Public Enemy, Rap, Realness, Schoolly D, Snoop Dogg, USA, Violence, Warheit, weapons, Westside Connection |
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on September 18, 2010
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on 18 September 2010 in
STORIES
Reflections on the new multi-local musical Avant-Gardes of the 21st Century. An essay on the Lebanese musician Tarek Atoui, Luigi Russolo, Mazen Kerbaj and many artists more.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 2006war, Ahmad Qaboor, Arab World, Avant-Garde, Beirut, Christine Sehnaoui, Cynthia Zaven, Dossier Arab World, Dossier World Music 2.0, Futurism, Globale Nischen, Iannis Xenakis, IRCAM, Khaled al-Habre, Lebanon, Luigi Russolo, Marcel Khalife, Mazen Kerbaj, Musique Concrète, Orientalism, Peter Brötzmann, Philemon Wehbe, Psychedelic Music, Raed Yassin, Scrambled Eggs, Sharif Sehnaoui, Tanya Traboulsi, Tarek Atoui, Violence, War, Xardas |
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on July 20, 2010
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on 20 July 2010 in
AUDIO
Metal, Rock und Zensur im Libanon. Eine Radiosendung von Thomas Burkhalter
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Arab World, Dossier Arab World, Lebanon, Metal, Post-War, Satanism, The Arcane, Trauma, Violence, Weeping Willow |
By Keith Kahn-Harris on July 7, 2010
By Keith Kahn-Harris on 7 July 2010 in
BLOG
Reflections on Metal, Popular Music and Politics in Israel and Palestine.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Israel, Metal, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, Propaganda, Violence, War |
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on August 28, 2009
By Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) and Simon Grab on 28 August 2009 in
AUDIO
Musicians from Beirut talk about their sonic memories from the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) and the 2006 war between Israel and Hizbullah.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Amal, Arab World, Charbel Haber, Cyrille Najjar, Death Metal, Dossier Arab World, Garo Gdanian, Hizbullah, Israel, Lebanese Forces, Lebanon, Mazen Kerbaj, Noise, Propaganda, Raed Yassin, Sonic Memory, The Force, Trauma, Violence, War, Weeping Willow |
