Norient Musikdebatte: Wie sinnvoll sind Residencies?

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Im Rahmen der Kulturgespräche des Musikfestivals Bern diskutierte Norient über den Sinn und Unsinn von Musikaustauschprogrammen und Residencies. Was bringen sie? Wie muss ein Projekt angelegt sein, damit es nachhaltig ist? Wer profitiert von solchen Stipendien, wer wird ausgeschlossen? Eine Norient Musikdebatte als Podcast.

Im temporären Studio auf dem Berner Waisenhausplatz waren zu Gast: Dahlia Borsche vom Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, der Residency-erfahrene Komponist Alican çamcı und der Berner Musiker Werner Hasler. Moderiert hat die Norient-Redakteurin und Kuratorin Theresa Beyer.

Die Diskussion fand statt im Rahmen des vom Bundesamt für Kultur BAK der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft geförderten Projekts «Norient Musikdebatten» und entstand in Kooperation mit dem Vermittlungsprogramm «Radio Antenne» des Musikfestivals Bern 2019 und Radio Bern RaBe.

Biography

Theresa Beyer gehört seit 2011 als Editorin, Kuratorin und Mitherausgeberin des Buches «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» zum Kernteam von Norient und beschäftigt sich mit Themen wie Queeren Musikkulturen, experimenteller Musik in Städten wie Belgrad oder Neu Delhi, und reflektiert in Vorträgen über die Chancen des multilokalen Kuratierens. Neben ihrer Norient-Identität ist sie Musikredaktorin bei Radio SRF 2 Kultur. Follow her on LinkedIn.

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Theresa Beyer: «Musik als Weltsprache: Wunschtraum oder Wahrheit? Ein Experiment» (SRF)

Sandeep Bhagwati: «Musik – eine Weltsprache?» (Norient)

Johannes Rühl: «Wie klingt Musik ohne Kontext?» (Norient)

Published on July 21, 2020

Last updated on July 22, 2020

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Gear Talk Mixtape by Ale Hop

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by Ale Hop

How does the relationship of artists with their gear affect the composition? Listen to a mind bending mixtape-collage with statements about the use of gear in electronic music compostion, eerie sounds, and weird loops by the Peruvian musician and sound researcher Ale Hop of the platform «Nuts and Bolts».

The mix was produced by the Peruvian musician and sound researcher Ale Hop, collaborator of «Nuts and Bolts», a platform that builds structures and circumstances that facilitate engagement with gear and gear-talk from a diverse standpoint. The piece was crafted as a sound-collage of excerpts from the Nuts and Bolt’s podcasts and tutorials from which we can hear fragments of conversations and insights about technology and music composition of artists such as Andrea Parkins, Jenny Hval, Jessica Ekomane, Jenny Berger Myhre, Jlin, Jessica Sligter, Guro Skumsnes Moe, and Sukitoa O Namau, mixed with selected music from the artists, and one track from Ale’s upcoming album The Life of Insects.

Tracklist

00:00 – Artist: Jessica Ekomane
Track: Common Fate

02:06 – Artist: Andrea Parkins
Podcast episode: Nuts and Bolts #2

02:52 – Artist: Jaleh Negari
Track: Clouds
Album: Arch Waves (Eget Værelse, 2016)

04:16 – Artist: Jenny Hval
Track: In the Red
Album: Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones, 2016)

05:36 – Artist: Jenny Hval
Podcast episode: Nuts and Bolts #1

06:12 – Artist: Nadah El Shazly
Track: Palmyra
Album: Ahwar (Nawa Recordings, 2017)

07:43 – Artist: Jenny Berger Myhre
Track: Lage Setning Av Et Ord
Album: Lint (Canigou Records / The Lumen Lake, 2017)

08:28 – Artist: Jenny Berger Myhre
Nuts and Bolts Tutorial: How to make a DIY Instrument? or «Acoustic Laptop»

09:02 – Artist: Sukitoa O Namau
Nuts and Bolts Tutorial: Hydrophone and Amplification Circuit, Y

09:05 – Artist: Sukitoa O Namau
Track: Nari 私の炎
Album: Nari (URUBU, 2018)

11:42 – Artist: Jessica Sligter
Track: The Dream Has Died
Album: Polycrisis.yes! (2018)

12:00 – Artist: Jessica Sligter
Podcast episode: Nuts and Bolts #3

13:00 – Artist: Aya Metwalli
Track: بعد العشا

15:22 – Ale Hop Nuts and Bolts
Interview: Gear-Interview October 2019

15:24 – Artist: Ale Hop
Track: The Way to the Ocean
Album: The Life of Insects (Buh Records, 2020)

18:01 – Artist: Jlin
Track: Carbon 7 (161)
Album: Black Origami (Planet Mu, 2017)

18:07 – Artist: Jlin
The Innovator Podcast episode: Nuts And Bolts #2

19:45 – Artist: Jana Winderen
Track: Out of Range Commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur, Redaktion Hörspiel / Klangkunst, 2014

20:38 – Guro Skumsnes Moe Podcast episode: Nuts and Bolts #2

21:33 – Artist: MoE and Mette Rasmussen
Track: Tolerancia Picante
Album: Tolerancia Picante (Conrad Sound, 2019)

Biography

Ale Hop (Alejandra Cárdenas) began her career in the 2000s in Lima’s underground music scene. Her body of work includes diverse formats such as live shows, albums, multimedia artworks, and research. Whether alone, maneuvering an intricate repertoire of electric guitar techniques, or in collaboration with other artists, her live performances have a physical and emotional character. She recently launched two collaborative projects: Agua Dulce, with percussionist Laura Robles; and Near and Remote Activation Practices, with Argentinean artist Tatiana Heuman, experimenting with self-built South American instruments. She also co-founded the festival Radical Sounds Latin America (which she co-curated 2019–2021) and today directs the editorial platform Contingent Sounds, which aims at facilitating critical discourses and artistic research. Follow her on Instagram, Facebook, X, Bandcamp, Spotify, or on her Website.

Links

Luke Turner: «Nuts & Bolts Podcast – Female* Musicans & Their Gear, Ep. One: Jenny Hval» (The Quietus)

Published on August 18, 2020

Last updated on September 29, 2020

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Unheimliche Heimat

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by Rehab Hazgui

With four main notes only, the legendary video game Prince of Persia (Jordan Mechner, 1989) tries to build a soundscape that illustrates a mysterious and timeless «Orient». This simple midi melody is a very distinct example of Orientalism in music and it is an echo of childhood for Tunisian designer and composer Rehab Hazgui. For the soundtrack of the virtual exhibition «DisOrient: Welcome to the Hall of Mirrors», which is part of the German festival Mannheimer Sommer, she took the Orientalist motive and turned it on its head to create a spooky deconstruction of a stereotyped musical universe.

This is how the artist introduces her piece: «‹Unheimliche Heimat› is a synthscape that emerges from the psyche of Prince of Persia’s protagonist in the video game from 1989. The synthscape transforms a fragment of the original theme into a floating loop. As repetitions pile up, the ‹signification› breaks down and what was familiar becomes strange and uncommon through a process of de-familiarization. One is driven by percolating sounds that signal in and out and lead to a place where self-modulating bleeps course in as if they would be part of the scenery, only to be washed away again by a compulsive loop.»

Follow Rehab Hazgui on Vimeo, Facebook, or Instagram. This track has been produced in the context of «DisOrient: Welcome to the Hall of Mirrors». A virtual music video exhibition by Norient for Mannheimer Sommer (July 12–22, 2020). Because of the Corona pandemic, the festival took place as a virtual event.

Biography

Rehab Hazgui (b. Tunisian) is a transdisciplinary designer, composer, and improviser of electronic music. Using analog synthesizers and handmade audio devices she explores the endless movement of sound, repetition, and the use of silence as a third space on the boundary to navigate between different forms of listening. Through immersive live improvisation, Rehab interacts with her synthesizers, guiding their development and growth into pieces that unfold in the present moment.  Much of her work is informed by her deep adoration for sound and her grounded relationship with the analog synthesizer, a tool she has applied herself to use not only as a composer and player, but also as a designer and builder. Follow her on Instagram, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Spotify, or on her Website.

Published on June 26, 2020

Last updated on September 25, 2020

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