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By Henriette Gunkel on October 18, 2018
By Henriette Gunkel on 18 October 2018 in
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What reads at first sight as a rather classic «coming out» story is not a linear narrative. In the music video «Magic Man» South African artist Umlilo and director Jasyn Howes produce a temporal and spatial disorder through fragments of moving images.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged body, dance, Desire, Gender, Magic Man, Queer, Queer Culture, Seismographic Sounds, South Africa, Umlilo |
By Norient on October 17, 2018
By Norient on 17 October 2018 in
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Wie und warum benutzen Musiker*innen Samples? Wie positionieren sie sich durch ihre Wahl? Können Samples ein gesellschaftlicher Kommentar sein? Solche Fragen stellt der Musikwissenschaftler Hannes Liechti in seiner Doktorarbeit.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Communicating Music Research, digital ethnography, Electronic Music, Ethnomusicology, Experimental Music, Hannes Liechti, Lara Sarkissian, MusicResearch, Sampling, SNF Agora |
By Norient on June 28, 2018
By Norient on 28 June 2018 in
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Which form of musical protest is most effective to provoke change? This we asked musicians and scholars around the world, from composer Dave Philipps to the ethnomusicologist Martin Daughtry. Their answers are quite different. A virtual debate.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Acoustic Mirror, Annette Schmucki, Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF), Blablabor, Dave Philipps, Filastine, İpek İpekçioğlu, Johannes Kreidler, Kamen Nedev, Keith Kahn-Harris, Kimi Kärki, Martin Daughtry, Minuit De Lacroix, Music and Politics, Protest, Protest Music, Reto Friedmann, Rona Geffen, Rudolf eb.er, Seismographic Sounds, Seismographic Sounds Debates, Trullesand |
By Ismael Hares alias Black Afghan Sound System on May 27, 2018
By Ismael Hares alias Black Afghan Sound System on 27 May 2018 in
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For Usinesonore Festival on June 2, 2018, Norient collaborated on the creation of an Afghan evening. On this occasion, we asked Ismael Hares alias Black Afghan Soundsystem to select five songs that rock every Afghan wedding in the diaspora.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Afghanistan, Aria Band, Black Afghan Sound System, Diaspora, Farhad Shams, Ismale Hares, Panjsher, Saboor Tabish, Sameera Nasiry, series: 5 video clips from..., USINESONORE, Valy, Wedding DJ |
By Norient on May 23, 2018
By Norient on 23 May 2018 in
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Today the sampling of all material from infinite sources challenges the «spectacular aura» of the pre-recorded original in order to claim autonomy. We asked musicians from the Norient network: how does the digital availability of sources change music?
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Christoph Ogiermann, copying, Eduardo Navas, glitch, Joe Bennett, Remix Studies, sample library, Sampling, Seismographic Sounds, Seismographic Sounds Debates, Svetlana Maraš, Vladimir Lenhart |
By Norient on April 23, 2018
By Norient on 23 April 2018 in
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War is the most horrible drama of human kind. Yet the noises of war – from swords clanging to modern machine guns – have fascinated musicians for centuries. We asked international musicians how to make a war audible. A virtual debate.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Ali Gul Pir, Asadullah, Bernard Clarke, bombs, David Opp, Garo Gdanian, Heart & Crossbone, Israel, Kamen Nedev aka Acoustic Mirror, Lebanon, Los Tigres del Norte, machine guns, Meira Asher, Nadav Appel, Nguzunguzu, Norient Debate, Pakistan, Rona Geffen, Seismographic Sounds, Seismographic Sounds Debates, Sharif Sehnaoui, Spain, War, Yasmine Hamdan, Zeid Hamdan |
By Jovica Radisavljevic on March 13, 2018
By Jovica Radisavljevic on 13 March 2018 in
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Im Video zum Stahlberger-Song «Du verwachsch wieder nume…» verwischt Regisseur Jovica Radisavljevic die Grenzen von Realität und Wahn. Hier erzählt er, wie es dazu kam und was es heisst, mit Minimal-Budget maximal kreativ zu sein.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Aron Marty, Bit-Tuner, DIY, Du verwachsch wieder nume i dinere Wonig, Loneliness, Manuel Stahlberger, Money, Musikvideo, Schweiz, Seismographic Sounds, The Presets |
By Norient on February 28, 2018
By Norient on 28 February 2018 in
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Musicians need to pay rent and taxes. They are also affected by the daily business of producing music: How much does a new computer cost? How can I pay for advertising my new track on social media? We asked musicians how to get heard in global music.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Arshia Fatima Haq, Bit-Tuner, C-Drik Fermont, Cairo, China, Daniel Haaksman, Dave Phillips, Egypt, Emmanuel Jal, Funk na Caixa, Gregory aka Slugabed and Jake, Kim Emil Ramstedt, Mada Masr, Maha El Nabawi, Marcel Gschwend (Bit-Tuner), Money, Panji Anoff, piracy, Renato Martins, Rona Geffen, Rudolf Dethu, Scarface, Seismographic Sounds, Seismographic Sounds Debates, Simon Akindes, Social Media, Thomas Burkhalter |
By Christophe Thockler on February 11, 2018
By Christophe Thockler on 11 February 2018 in
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«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 Norient on February 11, 2018
By Norient on 11 February 2018 in
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In the 21st century, the world’s musical hits and trends are often created in bedrooms, where musicians exchange files online without meeting. But can a bedroom producer change the world?
Posted in VIDEO, XFEATURED | Tagged AGF, Anty Greie-Ripatti, bedroom producer, Benjamin Lebrave, Bit-Tuner, Cande Sánchez Olmos, Coupdoeil, Effy B, FrankJavCee, Geert-Jan Hobijn, Giacomo Bottà, Girl Talk, Gregg Michael Gillis, James Costello, Javier Polo, Jesse Samba Wheeler, Loneliness, Marilou Polymeropoulou, Meira Asher, Merz, Minuit De Lacroix, Poemproducer, Rona Geffen, Salome MC, Seismographic Sounds, Seismographic Sounds Debates, Stephan Hermann, Wayne Marshall |
By Norient on February 9, 2018
By Norient on 9 February 2018 in
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«You come, you buy small, You greet some people small», sings the Swiss-Ghanaian musician Joy Frempong in her song «Market Place» from the album «No Problem Saloon». It is an anthem of Ghanaian everyday life.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Belonging, Bid Dada, Crammed Discs, Experience, Filewile, Ghana, Infinite Livez vs Stade, Joy Frempong, lyrics, Oy, Phall Fatale, Sampling, Seismographic Sounds, Switzerland |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on January 31, 2018
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 31 January 2018 in
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The viral music video «Formidable» of the Belgian musician Stromae reached almost 120 million YouTube hits in two years. We talked to the Belgian music video director Jérôme Guiot about the process of creating a marketing buzz.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Alors en dance, Brussels, Buzz, Drunken Stromae in the Streets, Fame, Formidable, Jérôme Guiot, Loneliness, Mentalities, music video, Promotion, Seismographic Sounds, stromae |
By Jan Dvorak on December 6, 2017
By Jan Dvorak on 6 December 2017 in
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Der Song «Sugarbread» der Gothic-Musikerin Soap&Skin alias Anja Plaschg ist eine Teenager-Tragödie. Aber auch ein Exorzismus – und Plaschg eine Besessene und Priesterin zugleich. Denn sie ahnt: Der Mensch ist ein liebesunfähiges Wesen.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Anja Plaschg, Apokalypse, Avant-Garde, Belonging, Cyborg, dystopia, Erlösung, Exorzismus, Experience, Gothic, Horrorfilm, Parsifal, religion, Requiem, Seismographic Sounds, Shangri-Las, Soap&Skin, Sugarbread, Wien |
By Jenny Fatou Mbaye on November 2, 2017
By Jenny Fatou Mbaye and Aisha Deme on 2 November 2017 in
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In this clip from the news show «Journal Rappé» from 2014 Senegalese hip hop pioneer Xuman used the famous hit «Formidable» by Stromae and turned it into a parody on a fallen local politician.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Aisha Deme, Dakar, Formidable, Jenny Fatou Mbaye, Journal Rappé, JTR, Karim Wade, Money, Music and Politics, Parody, Power, Protest, Seismographic Sounds, Senegal, Xuman |
By Aisha Deme on October 31, 2017
By Aisha Deme and Jenny Fatou Mbaye on 31 October 2017 in
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Since 2013 the Senegalese news show «Journal Rappé» merges rap with daily news. The concept of the two hip hop pioneers Keyti and Xuman is innovative and creative, as our authors think; and the means of parody has become crucial to the show.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Aisha Deme, corruption, Dakar, Fass, Formidable, Hip Hop, Jenny Fatou Mbaye, Journal Rappé, JTR, Karim Wade, Keyti, Money, Music and Politics, Parody, Power, Protest, Seismographic Sounds, Senegal, Xuman |
By Marcus Staiger on October 27, 2017
By Marcus Staiger on 27 October 2017 in
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«Ein Schlag in die Fresse der bildungsbürgerlichen Gesellschaft», so kommentiert unser Autor das Video «Saudi Arabi Money Rich» von Haftbefehl: «In diesem Video dampft der deutsche Rapper die Welt, wie sie sich ihm darstellt, auf das Wesentliche ein.»
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Bling, Deutscher Rap, Farhot, Geld, Haftbefehl, Hedonism, Hip Hop, Luxury, Marcus Staiger, Money, Neffi Temur, Saudi Arabi Money Rich, Seismographic Sounds |
By Shonegrad O'Connor on October 26, 2017
By Shonegrad O'Connor on 26 October 2017 in
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«Esi Mi Dobar» by Serbian rap group Bad Copy tackles issues of contemporary Serbia head-on by providing us with an image of contrast and contradiction. The 2013 video resembles a moussaka dish.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Bad Copy, Djolodjolo, Emir Kusturica, Esi mi dobar, Kotez, Parody, place, Protest, Seismographic Sounds, Serbia, Shonegrad O'Connor, War |
By Vladimir Lenhart on October 25, 2017
By Vladimir Lenhart on 25 October 2017 in
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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 Johanna Hilari on October 18, 2017
By Johanna Hilari on 18 October 2017 in
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«Somos Sur» by Ana Tijoux, featuring Shadia Mansour, is an anti-colonialist statement of autonomy. To underline this, the video clip re-contextualizes two significant folk dances, which historically are linked to both socio-political identification and struggle.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Ana Tijoux, Bolivia, Chile, Dabké, dance, Exotica, Folklore, Johanna Hilari, Pachamama, postcolonial, Potosí, Seismographic Sounds, Shadia Mansour, Social Movement, Somos Sur, Tinku |
By Pascal Rudolph on September 19, 2017
By Pascal Rudolph on 19 September 2017 in
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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 Michal Sapir on September 11, 2017
By Michal Sapir on 11 September 2017 in
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Most Israeli Jews have only a sketchy idea of what goes on in neighboring Arab countries. Through abstractions like maps, heads of state, standardized language, and propaganda, Israeli noise artist David Opp confronts a paranoid anticipation of war.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Activism, Arab World, Damascus, David Opp, David Oppenheim, dystopia, Israel, Michal Sapir, Noise, Protest, Sakata Helicobtir, Seismographic Sounds, Syria, War |
By Emma Dabiri on September 7, 2017
By Emma Dabiri on 7 September 2017 in
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With her video «Orangutan» Italian artist and activist Karima 2G responded on racist comments of Italian politicians in the context of the election of Italy’s first black government minister Cécile Kyenge in 2013.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Belonging, Blackness, Cécile Kyenge, Dolores Valandro, Emma Dabiri, Identity, Italy, Karima 2G, Mario Borghezio, Migration, Music and Politics, Orangutan, racism, Roberto Calderoli, Second Generation, Seismographic Sounds |
By Rudolf Dethu on September 6, 2017
By Rudolf Dethu on 6 September 2017 in
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In their video «House of Greed» Indonesian heavy metal band Burgerkill talks about the massive corruption in their home country. Indonesian journalist Rudolf Dethu shows how robbery affects the music business and jeopardizes youth-driven subcultures.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Burgerkill, corruption, House of Greed, Indonesia, Kleptocracy, Metal, Money, Music Business, Rudolf Dethu, Seismographic Sounds, youth culture |
By Jesse Samba Wheeler on September 4, 2017
By Jesse Samba Wheeler on 4 September 2017 in
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In 2013 Curitiba-based electropop band Bonde do Rolê released their music video «Picolé». A video celebrating the popsicle and directed by forty-five directors. Our author asks: How is this possible?
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Bedroom Producing, Bonde Do Rolê, Brazil, Curitiba, Desire, Gender Roles, Hedonism, Jesse Samba Wheeler, music video, Picolé, popsicle, Seismographic Sounds, Sexism |
By Jeremy Wallach on August 28, 2017
By Jeremy Wallach on 28 August 2017 in
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Our author comments on the 2014 music video «House of Greed» by the Indonesian metal band Burgerkill. He thereby talks about the tradition of popular music as a vehicle of political and social criticism in Indonesia.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Burgerkill, corruption, Harry Roesli, House of Greed, Indonesia, Iwan Fals, Jeremy Wallach, Joko Widodo, Metal, Money, Protest, Rhoma Irama, Sam Dunn, Seismographic Sounds, Soeharto |
By Mona Aurich on August 25, 2017
By Mona Aurich on 25 August 2017 in
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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 Kalle Berggren on August 18, 2017
By Kalle Berggren on 18 August 2017 in
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Silvana Imam is changing Sweden’s contemporary hip hop landscape. In this jj remix of her song «I.M.A.M.», classical hip hop video references are characteristically interchanged with images of political protests and LGBT Pride marches.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Ayesha, Cleo, Desire, Elin Kastlander, feminism, Femtastic, Feven, Gender Roles, Gudrun Schyman, Heli, Hip Hop, I.M.A.M., jj, Kalle Berggren, Leila K, Lilla Namo, Linda Pira, Lithuania, Melinda Wrede, Mika Gustafson, Neneh Cherry, New Geographies, Olivia Kastebring, Pussy Riot, Queer, Queer Culture, Seismographic Sounds, Silvana Imam, Simone de Beauvoir, Sweden, Syria, Transnationality, Valerie Solanas |
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on August 16, 2017
By Hannes Liechti (Norient) on 16 August 2017 in
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Dancing women at a pool party, mens with guns and barbecued sausages. An attempt of understanding the music video «Pau, Perereca e cu – PPC» by the Brazil musicians Harmonia do Sampler.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Ana Luiza Bellacosta, Bahia Music, baile funk, Brazil, Cae Maia, carnival, crap music, Daniel Haaksman, Desire, DJ Ops, funk carioca, Gender Equality, Harmonia do Sampler, Igor Silveira, Irony, Lucio K, music video, PPC, Rafael Ops, Tolerance, Understanding Global Culture |
By Benedikt Sartorius on July 25, 2017
By Benedikt Sartorius on 25 July 2017 in
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Anlässlich des 2014 erschienenen Musikvideos «Du verwachsch wieder nume i dinere Wonig» von Stahlberger, blickt unser Autor auf die Geschichte des Mediums Musikvideo zurück und dekonstruiert die Codes von Bandvideos.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Benedikt Sartorius, dance, Du verwachsch wieder nume i dinere Wonig, Jovica Radisavljevic, Loneliness, Los del Rio, Manuel Stahlberger, MTV, Mundart, music video, Prince, Roxette, Schweiz, Seismographic Sounds, Stahlberger, Tanz |
By Ali Gul Pir on July 18, 2017
By Ali Gul Pir on 18 July 2017 in
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In their 2014 music video «Whales» Hail Mary Mallon rap their message by using simplicity: Two colorless, homeless men telling us how it is. A commentary from a Pakistani perspective.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Ali Gul Pir, Funding, Hail Mary Mallon, Irony, Money, music video, Pakistan, Seismographic Sounds, Simplicity, Whales |
By Tara Mahadevan on July 7, 2017
By Tara Mahadevan on 7 July 2017 in
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Rap is slowly moving away from being money-centric to again, being about the music. This is what Hail Mary Mallon completely miss with their 2014 music video «Whales», an ironic view on wealth in hip hop culture. A critical commentary.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Aesop Rock, Bling, Escapism, Hail Mary Mallon, Hip Hop, Irony, Money, Parody, Rob Sonic, Seismographic Sounds, Sugarhill Gang, Tara Mahadevan, Wealth, Whales |
By Christoph Fellmann on June 26, 2017
By Christoph Fellmann on 26 June 2017 in
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Im Videokommentar zu «Du verwachsch wieder nume i dinere Wonig» der Schweizer Mundart Philosophen Stahlberger erscheint das im Video inszenierte Therapiegespräch als «Psychogramm einer in sich selbst vereinsamten Schweiz».
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Adi Stern, Christoph Fellmann, Flucht, Gölä, Heimat, Identität, Jovica Radisavljevic, Loneliness, Mundart, Patent Ochsner, Peter von Matt, place, Rumpelstilz, Saturation, Schweiz, Schweizer Existenzformel, Seismographic Sounds, Stahlberger, Táxi, Züri West |
By Sidney Sutter on May 29, 2017
By Sidney Sutter and Valentin Mettler on 29 May 2017 in
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The final episode of the web documentary on Eritrean exile music in Switzerland focuses on networks and Eritrean graphic design. With a visit at the studio of the famous Eritrean exile singer Andit Okbay in London.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Alexander Dawit, Andit Okbay, Ella records, Eritrea, Exile Guayla, Graphic Design, Issey Afewerki, Luwam, network, Sidney Sutter, Valentin Mettler |
By Maxime Pasques on May 13, 2017
By Maxime Pasques on 13 May 2017 in
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A second commentary in French on the video «Formidable» by Belgium singer Stromae, written for our book «Seismographic Sounds. Visions of a New World». An elaboration on the typical Belgian «bonhomme» mentality.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Belgium, Bruxelles, Buzz, Fame, Formidable, Goulet Louise, Jacques Brel, Loneliness, Maxime Pasques, Mentalities, place, Seismographic Sounds, stromae |
By Sidney Sutter on May 8, 2017
By Sidney Sutter and Valentin Mettler on 8 May 2017 in
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Producing Eritrean music in the diaspora works in a quite unique way. Because of this, the third episode of the web documentary on Eritrean music is concentrating on the production and the vocals.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Abrar Osman, Eritrea, Exile Guayla, Music Production, Senait Hadish, Sidney Sutter, Valentin Mettler, Vocals, Yohannes Gebre |
By Wanlov The Kubolor on April 18, 2017
By Wanlov The Kubolor on 18 April 2017 in
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I was thoroughly fooled by Stromae’s video for «Formidable» the first time I saw it. I found Stromae to be very intelligent, beautiful, meticulous and his music made me want to dance. A commentary from a Sub-Saharan perspective.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Belgium, Everyday Life, Experience, Formidable, Loneliness, Relationship, Sarcasm, Seismographic Sounds, stromae, Wanlov The Kubolor |
By Sidney Sutter on April 17, 2017
By Sidney Sutter and Valentin Mettler on 17 April 2017 in
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The second Episode of the web documentary on Eritrean music culture in Switzerland focuses on the environment around the Eritrean parties and sets the spotlight on the art of eritrean dancing.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Aarau, Abrar Osman, dance, Eritrea, Exile Guayla, Hermon, Kuda, Salina, Sidney Sutter, Social Media, Switzerland, Valentin Mettler, Yodit, YouTube |
By Jesse Weaver Shipley on April 15, 2017
By Jesse Weaver Shipley on 15 April 2017 in
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The song «BRKN LNGWJZ» and its video announce the FOKN Bois as critical, global, political, and absurdist hip hop voices. It marks the birth of international pidgin rap not only as a style once can dance to, but as a modernist multi-media art form.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged BRKN LNGWJZ, Coz Ov Moni, Exotica, FOKN Bois, Ghana, Hip Hop, Hustling, Jesse Weaver Shipley, M3nsa, Parody, Pidgin, Seismographic Sounds, Smoothe Da Hustler, Wanlov The Kubolor |
By Mutombo da Poet on April 13, 2017
By Mutombo da Poet on 13 April 2017 in
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When «BRKN LNGWJZ» by the Ghanaian rap duo FOKN Bois was released, I had to watch the video over and over again. It was different from what I have seen in other videos by Ghanaian artists. A commentary.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Accra, BRKN LNGWJZ, church, FOKN Bois, Ghana, Hip Hop, M3nsa, Mutombo da Poet, Parody, religion, Seismographic Sounds, Wanlov The Kubolor |
By Lucia Udvardyova on April 3, 2017
By Lucia Udvardyova on 3 April 2017 in
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Far from folkloristic clichés and beyond the radar of the taste-shaping music press, there are alternative music scenes thriving in Central and Eastern Europe. Watch its most urgent video clips.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged 8. Norient Musikfilm Festival, Artyom Astrov, Belonging, Benzokai, brat dážďoviek, Capitalism, Czech Republic, Dorota Masłowska, Easterndaze, Estonia, Facebook, football, Identity, Maria Strzelecka, Mister D, Ostrava, Poland, Politics, refugees, Samčo, Schwarzprior, Slovakia |
By Sidney Sutter on March 25, 2017
By Sidney Sutter and Valentin Mettler on 25 March 2017 in
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The crowd-shaped web documentary gives an insight into the unknown Eritrean music scene in Switzerland. The first Episode is centred around Switzerland-based Eritrean musicians and bands.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Eri Power, Eritrea, Exile Guayla, Fribourg, Mulugeta Sbhatu, OneLove Band, Royal Band, Seare Debesay, Sidney Sutter, Switzerland, Tigrinya, Valentin Mettler |
By Norient on March 19, 2017
By Norient on 19 March 2017 in
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«contradict» is a film of our time. Mirroring a world, in which Asia and Africa formulate ideas and trends for tomorrow and might replace Europe and the US as global centers soon. By Peter Guyer (Recycled TV) and Thomas Burkhalter (Norient).
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Accra, Adua no Ebu, Africa, africanhiphop, Afropop, Afropop Worldwide, Akwaaba music, Alive Chapel International, Azonto Ghost, Benjamin LaBrave, Benjamin Lebrave, Bisa Kdei, church, Coz Ov Moni, Coz Ov Moni II, DJ Black, documentary, Documentary Film, Dossier World Music 2.0, Elishah Salifu Amoako, Eugene Hoggar, Florian Carl, Georg Milz, Ghana, Ghone TV, Glo Mobile, Highlife, Hiplife, Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra, Jesse Weaver Shipley, Joy FM, King Luu, Lynx Entertainment, M3nsa, Mutambo Da Poet, Mutombo da Poet, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Nathan Plagman, Nii Ayite Hammond, Nkasei, Panji Anoff, Parody, Peter Guyer, Recycled TV, religion, Sister Deborah, Stefan Franzen, Steven Feld, Thomas Burkhalter, Wanlov The Kubolor, World Music 2.0, Yaa Pono |
By Heinrich Deisl on March 1, 2017
By Heinrich Deisl on 1 March 2017 in
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The austrian artist Soap&Skin makes highly dialectic music. In her self made video with grainy black-and-white images of the song «Sugarbread» she invokes nothing less than the cleansing power of the apocalypse.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Aphex Twin, Apocalypse, Arvo Pärt, Avant-Garde, Belonging, Björk, Carl Theodor Dreyer, David Lynch, dystopia, Franz Schubert, Fritz Lang, Gothic, Industrial, Luis Bunuel, religion, Ritual, Seismographic Sounds, Simón del desierto, Soap&Skin, Sugarbread, The Alphabet, The Exorcist, Vienna, Vredens dag, Wien, William Friedkin |
By Martin Daughtry on February 24, 2017
By Martin Daughtry on 24 February 2017 in
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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
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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 B Camminga on October 24, 2016
By B Camminga on 24 October 2016 in
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The video of «Magic Man» of the south african musician Umlilo questions issues of race and masculinity and speaks to the constant negotiation that is the suffocating entanglement of past and present South Africa.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Desire, Gender, Magic Man, masculinity, Queer, Queer Culture, Race, Rainbow Nation, Ritual, Seismographic Sounds, South Africa, Umlilo, Xhosa |
By Luca Gricinella on September 11, 2016
By Luca Gricinella on 11 September 2016 in
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The first article on Norient.com in Italian is a commentary on the 2014 music video «Orangutan» by artist and activist Karima 2G. A commentary from the Norient book «Seismographic Sounds».
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged alienation, Belonging, Italy, Karima 2G, Luca Grincinella, Orangutan, Protest, Seismographic Sounds, Struggle |
By Nabeel Zuberi on July 4, 2016
By Nabeel Zuberi on 4 July 2016 in
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Bishi’s video of «Albion Voice» is reminiscent of the Sex Pistols. She subverts imagery of the national flag while she inserts herself into a pastoral old England to question white Britishness.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Albion Voice, Bishi, Bishi Bhattacharya, Brexit, Britannia, British psychedelia, British-Indian, Britishness, Daniel Defoe’, Derek Jarman, Downton Abbey, empire, England, Exotica, Folk, Great Britain, Heritage, hybridized identity, Indian raga, Jamie Reid, Jubilee, Migration, Morrissey, Nabeel Zuberi, Nation, national flag, national voice, Nationalist Music, Nostalgia, pastoral, post-imperial migration, Punk Rock, Queen Elizabeth, queer film, Ravi Shankar, Rule Britannia, Seismographic Sounds, Sex Pistols, South Asian, subversive, Tradition, United Kingdom, video, weaving of clans, white Britishness |
