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🎹 HYPERPLEXIA-BLACK MIDI: EVOLVING AND REMAPPING PIANO DESIGN 🇯🇵 💫  How has the piano’s design evolved and what are the possibilities for remapping it? Composer and pianist @stefanschultzemusic pursues since 2023 the exploratory and collaborative performance project HYPERPLEXIA.  It involves various musical and technological elements, including two grand pianos, one with a self-playing mechanism, virtual pianos, sample libraries, AI agents, controllers, and visuals, all interconnected via MIDI. 🌐A digital extension of performance project on norient.com, featuring contributions by Stefan Schultze and Raffael Dörig, documents and reflects the Japanese subgenre Black MIDI which has been a major influence on the project from the beginning: 🔗norient.com/hyperplexiat ℹ️ Stefan Schultze is a composer and pianist that occupies the interface between new music, improvisation, and jazz. His compositions explore and translate music from a myriad of contexts, opening new sonic territories and transcending genres. He is a professor and heads the Master’s program for music composition in contemporary jazz at Bern Academy of the Arts HKB, Switzerland. 📅Save the dates and experience Stefan Schultze's Hyperplexia live at 3 Tage Neue Musik Braunschweig (Oct, 27) and @beeflatbern (Nov, 27). 🛠 A project by @stefanschultzemusic 💶 funded by @hkb_musik @hkb_jazz @bgbern and @prohelvetia 🗓 published 08/2024 #Hyperplexia #blackMIDI #pianodesign #performanceproject #thenowinsound

«17 CONTRIBUTIONS OF 21 ARTISTS NAVIGATING BOGOTÁ’S DIVERSITY» 🎬 Get ready for Bogotá's diverse voices, sounds and stories!  Curator Luisa Uribe @_luisafernando shares some insights on the upcoming virtual exhibition Norient City Sounds: Bogotá. 🔜Catch a  glimpse of what's to come—launching this Thursday❗ ℹ️Curator Luisa Uribe @_luisafernando is an anthropologist-sociologist and cultural manager from Bogotá. ⌛SOON OUT 📒 new Norient Online Special «Norient City Sounds: Bogotá» The publication explores Bogotá’s diversity and struggles, revealing its creativity and contradictions. #BogotaVoices highlights the city's vibrant nightlife, boundary-crossing music, and defiant existences. ✨ featuring @la.bugambiliaa @diezletrasserigrafia @lamalditasudaca @ladyhunter.h @9_caverna_9 @doris.salsero  @incorrecto @scembrano @rou_rodriguez @canina_____ #ColombianDroneMafia @gibranacervantes #DiegoContento @mariposa.bog @juansebarriga  Eduardo Santos @nicoguga @tembelabsonoro @manu_s_parias @sol_tornasol 👾 project team @lajulita_vavolada @julianna_808 @otroaguirre @tembelabsonoro 🌀 edited by @_luisafernando @hannesliechti 🔊 communication & press by @vertigobruja 💬 copy editing by @tuckermcgeee 🗓 published 08/2024   💶 supported by @prohelvetia⁠ #southculturalfunds by @artlink.ch #stanleythomasjohnson foundation ⁠ #bogotavoices #bogota #bogotaqueer #queerculture #queercommunity #vogue #ballroom #ballroomculture #queerdance #merengue #perreo #leyintegraltransya #thenowinsound

✨ NORIENT PLAYLIST AUGUST 2024:  TAIPEI TW This playlist by the features tracks by Taiwanese dj and producer Sonia Calico. She presents a mix of genres, from alternative rap and industrial to electronic music, pop songs, and chants in indigenous Taiwanese languages. Expect some vibrant and varied sounds emerging from Taipei.  Follow the Norient Playlist on Spotify. Link in bio.  🌍 This playlist has been curated by @sonia_calico  dj and producer at the forefront of Taiwan’s dance music scene, bringing a sharp ear for music that brings fun and unique grooves. ✍️ curated by @alienationist_  🎨 artwork by @kai.drinks.water  Featuring @wade.dao @pan_the_pansexual @mongtongband @sc_in_tii @lujiachi @lovebettyapple @dirtykkkk_tsuihonagi @makavvvv @sowutis   #taipei #taiwan #thenowinsound #norientplaylist

🐦‍⬛️ TIMEZONES ON AIR x RABE: COLOMBO – INSIDE THE PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE 🇱🇰 Start your Sunday with episode 12 of the TIMEZONES podcast @radiorabe Hosted by Simone Keller and Joseba Zbinden, this episode explores the creation of art during the political struggle that has shaped Sri Lanka and its capital Colombo since the start of 2022. #Protest #Aragalaya 📡 Tune in from 5 to 6 pm CET at rabe.ch 🌍 or explore this and many other episodes of the four seasons on @spotify or apple podcasts. TIMEZONES is more than a podcast: with these experimental audio collages we aim to create a new format of sonic storytelling. The podcast series asks what does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities, and contexts today? 🎙episode 12 COLOMBO by Isuru Kumarasinghe @eyeheardear and Devana Senanayake w/ bonus talk by Janik Sittampalam and Zainamb Wahid 🎵 featuring King Ratnam, Anu Madhubhashinie, @dinupa_kodagoda Ajith Kumarasiri, Namini Panchala ✍️ artistic editor: @abhishek_is_on_insta 🎨 snap design: @sejmafere 📷 photography: @aaqill_noor 🗓 published 10/2022 ⁠ 🎚mastering: @centraldubs 📹 trailer: @cocoem__ ⁠ 🛠co-produced by @goetheinstitut + @norientsounds feat. @goetheinstitut_srilanka 💶 supported by #stanleythomasjohnsonfoundation @prohelvetia_newdelhi available on @spotify, @deezer #applepodcast @sticherpodcasts 📻 featured on @sphere.radio Leipzig, Germany #Timezones #Colombo #Podcast #Protest #GotaGoGama #Norient #TheNowinSound #prohelvetia_newdelhi

〰️ LET THE MUSIC GUIDE YOUR MOVEMENT 〰️ The dancer as insurgent Delivers the dance as an offering Sharpen your knives Power can be trained Forget the difference between dancing and moving, let the music guide your movement ‹tell a story with your hands› – Javier Ninja Imitate and then create, create something from nothing… …Our manifesto is the body and the dance.» Fragments from «The Patchwork Manifesto» by House of Tupamaras. «I created the project „La Ventana Marica Indiscreta“ to produce a video essay featuring testimonies from key figures in Bogotá’s nightlife scene. It is inspired by the experience of observing the night from a car window at dawn, capturing the lingering essence of parties and encounters. Listen to a statement by LadyHunterTexas. His video essay on Bogotá’s queer nightlife scene will be part of the fourth Norient City Sounds virtual exhibition! 📹 @ladyhunter.ht (Camilo Acosta) is a video artist,performer, and cultural manager based in the city of Medellín, Colombia. ⌛️SOON OUT: August 22, 2024‼️ 📒 Norient Online Special «Norient City Sounds: Bogotá» The publication explores Bogotá’s diversity and struggles, revealing its creativity and contradictions. #BogotaVoices highlights the city’s vibrant nightlife, boundary-crossing music, and defiant existences. 💻 curated by @_luisafernando 👾 project team @lajulita_vavolada @julianna_808 @otroaguirre @tembelabsonoro 🌀 edited by @_luisafernando @hannesliechti 🔊 communication & press by @vertigobruja 💬 copy editing by @tuckermcgeee 🗓 published 08/2024 💶 supported by @prohelvetia⁠ #southculturalfunds by @artlink.ch #stanleythomasjohnson foundation ⁠ #videoessay #queerness #citysounds #bogota #bogotavoices #thenowinsound

«CURATING MEANS INVOLVING ARTISTS» 🔸What is most important to you when curating? 🔸What are the biggest conflicts / pleasures you encounter when curating? 🔸What does curating mean to you? 3 questions on curating for Dr. Rim Jasmin Irscheid, a researcher in the field of contemporary  sound production and curation across Lebanon and the Palestinian diaspora in Europe. She is currently looking at how memory, autobiographical, and sensory aspects of urban living are reflected in sound and multimedia installations. ✺✳ ┅ Read her response online and order your book copy: link in bio! ┅ ✳✺ 📸 Photo portrait Rim Irscheid: Damián Irzik 📚Politics of Curatorship: Collective and Affective Interventions
 💭How do we curate more diverse and increase equality in curatorship? Essays, academic texts, poems, photos, and comments by 32 writers, artists, journalists, and scholars worldwide. 💻 Editors: Philipp Rhensius @alienationist_ & Monia Acciari @memoonyho ✍Authors: 
AGF aka poemproducer, @lynhan_b, @lutlopl, Sandeep Bhagwati, @phila_bergmann, @thomasburkhalter, @viviancaccuri, @chicodub, Daniel «duex» Fontana, @ago.12.ago, @nataliegravenor, Nikhila H., @rim_irscheid, @maybedjraph, @aqnb, nghbrhd_chrctr, @larozza, Sulgi Lie, @imaadmajeed, Thea Reifler, @rebeccasalvadori, @suvanisuri, @gruusomeflower, @chaf12, @lcia_65, @viswanathgita, @soundwords_sv 🎨 Book design: @lauramascarenhas 💬 Copy Editors: @meredithslifkin , Tash Siddiqui, Angus Finlayson 🎨 snap design by @srg.slzr
🔁 Audio Loops Snaps: @ayluaylu 🔊 Outreach @vertigobruja #curation #curatorship #music #colonialism #decolonial #culturalproduction #gatekeeping #queer #situatedknowledge #theory #blackstudies #power #politics #performance #selection

💭WHAT IF AN EARWORM IS NOT AN IRRITATION, BUT A PLEASANT REPETITION? 🎙️WHY DOES MAKING FIELD RECORDINGS FEEL LIKE TAPPING INTO AN ALIEN WORLD? 🫂TO WHAT EXTENT DO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LISTEN TO MUSIC AS AN ACT OF KINSHIP? «Sonic Worlding» is a monthly Norient column in which writers and artists from different backgrounds reflect on a music or sound-related phenomenon that has recently struck them. But it comes with a twist: they are encouraged to think WITH and not only ABOUT music. Explore poetic texts and essays. Norient.com/sonic-worlding Link in bio. 🔗 ✍️ edited by @alienationist_ 💻 recent editions by #ShantiSukiOsman (Berlin), Paul Kammies @dorinetheseagull (Cape Town),  Gisela Swaragita @gruusomeflower (Yogyakarta), Peggy Kyoungwon Lee @badpersimmon (Washington D.C), #EleniIkoniadou (London), Renata Yazzie nata_yazhi (Albuquerque), Agata Pyzik @pannapyzik (Warsaw), Majd Shidiac @majdshidiac (Beirut) 🎨 snap designs by @srg.slzr5 @ali.sayah.771  🎵 snap sound by @qeeiqeei @ayluaylu  🎬 trailer by @iam_karrl 🔊outreach by @vertigobruja 🗓 published since 06/2022

👂🏽📀 EVER WALKED THROUGH NEW DELHI AND WONDERED IF YOU COULD HEAR YOUR MUSIC COLLECTION… ALL AROUND YOU ?! Nishant Mittal certainly has. Join him as he walks through Delhi stopping at heritage sites, museums, a music store and more, and shares tales and anecdotes from his curated record collection about the rich musical histories of the city. Link in Bio. 📷 Nishant Mittal is a music archivist and selector DJ based in New Delhi. Nishant runs the blog @digginginindia through which he attempts to discover and unearth vintage music archives from India and around the world. 🎨 snap design by @upendravaddadi_ 🎧 snap sound by @suvanisuri @digginginindia   📒 part of the Norient Online Special «Norient City Sounds: Delhi» that tunes into a polyphony of voices, songs, sounds, and narratives that reimagine and «unconceal» the various worlds and characters constituting the «sonicities» of India’s capital. 💻 curated by @suvanisuri 👾 project team @geetanjalikalta @nayidillise @abhishek_is_on_insta upendravaddadi_ @instant_ammar 🌀 edited by @suvanisuri @hannesliechti 🔊 communication & outreach @vertigobruja 💬 copy editing by @iwasmisinformed 🗓 published 09/20223 ✨ supported by @prohelvetia⁠ #southculturalfunds by @artlink.ch #delhisensate #newdelhi #collections #vinylrecords #Ghalib #NizamuddinDargah #AmirKhusrau #SharanRani #Beatles #AbbeyRoad #RikhiRam #HazaraSingh #QutubMinar #thenowinsound #begumakhtar #HazaraSingh #BatukNandy #SunilGanguly #CharanjitSingh #KaziArindam #VanShipley #DipankarSenGupta

✨ NORIENT PLAYLIST JULY 2024: TUNIS 🇹🇳 Explore this collection of tracks by talented Tunisian artists who have been inspiring our curator @nurivibes for a long time: «I often include these tracks in my DJ sets because they bring a unique and rich flavor, showcasing the vibrant and diverse sounds of Tunisia. Additionally, some songs are from friends and fellow musicians that I admire and support, making this playlist a blend of personal favorites and local gems.» ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇ Link in bio. 💭 Norient co-curates a monthly playlist on Spotify around music scenes in different cities, regions, and countries around the globe. ℹ️ @nurivibes is a dynamic Tunisian Percussionist and music producer renowned for his eclectic and innovative sound. With a deep passion for electronic music, Nuri masterfully blends traditional Tunisian rhythms with contemporary beats, creating a unique and captivating auditory experience. ✍️ edited by @alienationist_ 🎨 artwork by @kai.drinks.water 🎵 sound snippet by @donpac_50   ılıılıılıılıılıılı featuring @fusaifusa @gultrah @ghoulamusic @donpac_50 @ktyb_soobidih @hearthug_ @le_madou @khalilepi @panj.music @metttani @ammar_8_0_8 @deena__abdelwahed @neysatu @haydar.hamdi @houeida_hedfi   #tunisianmusic #thenowinsound #norientplaylist

❓CAN HISTORICAL RESONANCES EVER REALLY BE ERASED❓ As an artist and educator, Smita Rajmane is developing and designing a game to re-enter the histories that have been censored from school textbooks across India. Narratives of architectural wonders, fables and myths surrounding them, conversations with visitors at heritage sites, historians, and news fragments get woven into this sound collage, a trailer to the audio-visual game that asks – can histories, voices, experiences, dissent, and a spirit of inquiry ever really be erased? Link in Bio.✨   🔊 @smitaurmila is a public intervention artist, educator, and performer based in New Delhi, India. The major themes of Smita’s work deal with societal norms that arise from class, caste, and gender discrimination. 🎨 snap design by upendravaddadi_ 🎧 snap sound by @suvanisuri   📒 part of the Norient Online Special «Norient City Sounds: Delhi» that tunes into a polyphony of voices, songs, sounds, and narratives that reimagine and «unconceal» the various worlds and characters constituting the «sonicities» of India’s capital. 💻 curated by @suvanisuri 👾 project team @geetanjalikalta @nayidillise @abhishek_is_on_insta @upendravaddadi_ @instant_ammar 🌀edited by @suvanisuri @hanneslichti 🗓 published 09/20223 ⁠✨ supported by @prohelvetia⁠ #southculturalfunds by @artlink.ch ⁠ #delhisensate #censorship #histories #mughalhistory #oralhistories #spatialacoustics #citysounds #soundscape #agency #thenowinsound

5 VIDEO CLIPS FROM KOSOVO: POST-WAR INDIE 🎬 A wild mix of flavors, from limbo and madness, melancholy and fervor, as well as a self-deprecating humor. Watch a list of independent music videos from post-war-struck Kosovo. Link in bio.     💻 curated by @o.pt @armataprishtina 🎨 snap design by @srg.slzr 🎧 snap sound by @ayluaylu 🎵 featuring music by @_ktrr_ & more ✍️ edited by @alienationist_ 💬 copy editing by @iwasmisinformed 🗓 published 06/2024 💭 5 Video Clips From invites listeners to walk, accompanied by the curators comments, on the videos’ alternative geographies, and to create their own map of meanings and imaginations. ℹ️ As a multidisciplinary artist based in Pristina, Brilant Pireva works with poetry, video, music, and digital painting to explore mythology, religion, and the phenomena of failure. #kosovo #counterculture #musicvideo #sampling #thenowinsound

🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏼‍♀️ A LOT HAPPENS ON EVERY WALK AND YET IT MAY SEEM LIKE… NOTHING HAPPENED AT ALL. How does the practice of women walking at midnight shape alternative practices of listening, intimately and associatively? Mallika Taneja shares a durational recording of one recent walk, inviting listeners to sense a night in New Delhi, India, as they journey alongside the sound (of a) walk. 🩴 🌒 Link in Bio. 🔊 Mallika Taneja aka @goodgirlfromgoodfamily lives and works out of New Delhi, India. Through performances, installations, and curatorial work, she explores questions of gender, solidarity, pleasure, rest, and remembering. 🎨 snap design by upendravaddadi_ 🎧 snap sound by @wewalkatmidnight 🛠️ snap edit @geetanjalikalta   📒 part of the Norient Online Special «Norient City Sounds: Delhi» that tunes into a polyphony of voices, songs, sounds, and narratives that reimagine and «unconceal» the various worlds and characters constituting the «sonicities» of India’s capital. 💻 curated by @suvanisuri 👾 project team @geetanjalikalta @nayidillise @abhishek_is_on_insta upendravaddadi_ @instant_ammar 🌀 edited by @suvanisuri @hannesliechti 💬 copy editing by @iwasmisinformed 🗓 published 09/20223 ✨ supported by @prohelvetia⁠ #southculturalfunds by @artlink.ch ⁠ #delhisensate #walking #city #sounds #womenwalkatmidnight #listeningtothenight #sensingthecity #listeningpositionalities #thenowinsound

🌏🎙️ TIMEZONES EXPERIMENTAL PODCAST SEASON #4 COMPLETE ! We invite you to explore the five episodes that form the season 4 of the experimental podcast series TIMEZONES:  EP17: KAMPALA  🇺🇬  When Creativity Meets Chaos: Insights into the Uncompressed Music Scene in Kampala  A podcast by @anitakevyn Featuring @authenticallyplastic @dj_flo_moon @nsasi_ug @rey_sapienz EP 18: CAIRO 🇪🇬 The Subtle Pressures of Cairo A podcast by Fajr Soliman Featuring @rama_snd @nancy_mounir @elwaiillii EP 19: LIMA 🇵🇪 Radical Archeologies: Unearthing Lima’s Sonic and Poetic Landscapes A podcast by @ale_hophop Featuring @olgarodriguezu @wichogarcia.h @soylafabs Domingo de Ramos @wildergonzalesagreda @frau_diamanda @javi_vargas_st EP 20: HANOI 🇻🇳 Hanoi Undercurrents A podcast by @linhhab in collaboration with @jtomesmusic  Featuring @soundawakener @hotramanh.music and Hoang Thu Thuy EP 21; KARACHI 🇵🇰 Expressions for Sanity A podcast by @therealaligulpir Featuring @babarmangi @sarahwaqarofficial @shehzadghiasshaikh @gulkhansarangi ✅ LISTEN AND PURCHASE IN THE NORIENT SHOP AND ON BANDCAMP 🌍 TIMEZONES is more than a podcast: with these experimental audio collages we aim to create a new format of sonic storytelling. The podcast series asks what does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities, and contexts today? ✍ artistic editor: @abhishek_is_on_insta / @suvanisuri project management & outreach: @hannes_liechti / @vertigobruja 🎨 snap design: @sejmafere 🗓 published between September 2023 and January 2024 ⁠ 🎚mastering: @centraldubs 📹 trailer: @iam_karrl ⁠ 🛠co-produced by @goetheinstitut + @norientsounds feat. @goetheinstitut_peru + goetheinstitut_hanoi + goetheinstitut_pakistan 💶 supported by ⁠@prohelvetia + + prohelvetia_johannesburg prohelvetia_newdelhi + prohelvetia_southamerica + prohelvetia_cairo   🔘 Featured on @sphere.radio Leipzig, Germany, @radiorabe

✨ NORIENT PLAYLIST JUNE 2024: RASHT 🇮🇷 Bordering Azerbaijan to the north and a long stretch of the Caspian Sea to the East, Gilan is a seafaring, green Iranian province brimming with life with Rasht as its capital. The folk music has distinctive sounds and rhythms that are hard to resist! Gilaki language shares much with neighboring Caucasian languages, as does the ethnic identity and culture.   Our curator @faribrad sought out music that spoke to her about contemporary creativity yet retained something recognizable, for a people who for many decades successive Iranian regimes have perpetrated human rights injustices against, mainly for being «non-Persian» and resisting an imposed homogeneity.   ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇ Link in bio.   💭 Norient co-curates a monthly playlist on Spotify around music scenes in different cities, regions, and countries around the globe.   ℹ️ @faribrad is an artist and researcher (born in Iran) based in London. She focuses on sound, society, and awareness with a long research-based arts practice that includes broadcast, performance, experimental music, sculpture, installation, interventions, and writing.   ✍️ edited by @hannes.liechti 🎨 artwork by @kai.drinks.water 🎵 sound snippet by Martin Shamoonpour   ılıılıılıılıılıılı featuring Damour Vocal Band @naserzeynalii @dj.masoudi Martin Shamoonpour @morihemo @giira_band @godpoori Shahrzad @sinatava @balzan.official Keyvan Habibzadeh @marlik_philharmonic_choir @ragheboriginal @hamidhiraad Parham Sezar   #iranianmusic #iranianpop #thenowinsound #norientplaylist #timezones

«ONE CANNOT EVEN CHEW PAAN IN PEACE. ONE RASCAL COUGHS, ANOTHER MAKES SOME COMMENT AND HERE I’M OUT OF BREATH FOR FEAR…» A story-telling session that renders Rashid Jahan’s 1932 feminist short story «Dilli Ki Sair» (A journey through Delhi), into a sound work. The Norient featured sound work relocates the original text to a contemporary context where the times have changed, yet also not. The concerns of Rashid Jahan about what it means to be a woman in a public place in Delhi in the 1930s resonates with the participants of the session as they come together to record a performative reading of the story in their voices that are situated in a different era, yet bound together by a common shared experience. Link in Bio.   🎧 Afreen Akhtar @alaihda is a writer and a multi-disciplinary artist based in Delhi, India. Her work deals with subjects like identity, gender, marginalization, communal violence, and the rewriting of history. 🎨 snap design by upendravaddadi_  🎶 snap sound by @alaihda 💿 snap remix by @suvanisuri   📒 part of the Norient Online Special «Norient City Sounds: Delhi» that tunes into a polyphony of voices, songs, sounds, and narratives that reimagine and «unconceal» the various worlds and characters constituting the «sonicities» of India’s capital. 💻 curated by @suvanisuri 👾 project team @geetanjalikalta @nayidillise @abhishek_is_on_insta @upendravaddadi_ @instant_ammar 🌀 edited by @suvanisuri @hannesliechti 💬 copy editing by @iwasmisinformed 🗓 published 09/20223 ✨ supported by @prohelvetia⁠ #southculturalfunds by @artlink.ch #delhisensate #feminism #rashidjahan #soundstories #fieldrecordings #zoomperformance #oralnarratives #soundscapes #thenowinsound

🇮🇷 5 VIDEO CLIPS FROM IRAN: THE SOUND OF RESILIENCE Around this enormous, ancient country in five music videos, Iran’s vibrant creative scene thrives despite censorship and oppression. Western music is frowned upon, and dancing and women singing in public are illegal, yet musicians reach the exiled diaspora and us via the internet. Link in bio. 💻 curated by @faribrad – an artist and researcher (born in Iran) based in London. She focuses on sound, society, and awareness with a long research-based arts practice that includes broadcast, performance, experimental music, sculpture, installation, interventions, and writing. 🎵 featuring @jarshaa_ @khanevadegi.hiphop @eendoofficial @s_h_a_p_u_r @mhdyr @sadegh.buoghi @sadegh.booghy @soor_original @labyrinth.1   🎨 snap design by @srg.slzr 🎧 snap sound by @piearesquared_   📹 part of the Series 5 VIDEO CLIPS FROM In this ongoing series, launched in 2012, we invite artists, writers, and researchers to curate a playlist of music videos from the country of their residence or origin. 5 VIDEO CLIPS FROM invites listeners to walk, accompanied by the curator’s comments, on the videos’ alternative geographies, and to create their own map of meanings and imaginations.   💬 copy editing by @tuckermcgeee 🗓 published 06/2024 ⁠ #iranianrap #iranianhiphop #iran #iraniandiaspora #censorship #musicandprotest #mahsaamini #womenlifefreedom #iranprotests #5videoclipsfrom #thenowinsound

💫 NORIENT RECOMMENDS: BLACK COMMUNION MAY 30 & 31, 2024 @blackcomunionberlin is the sharing of experiences from the transnational Afro-diaspora, breaking down genre boundaries and encouraging experimentation through collaboration.  This event series is a celebration of the connection between artists coming from various backgrounds and creative communities, united by their sonic activism ranging from composition to improvisation and sound art practices. Join us at the two day festival and sonic experiences with 🔹Sound artist, acousmatic interpreter, and musician #LeilaBencharnia 🔹P-Funk and Surrealism-inspired MC @infinite.livez 🔹Griot storyteller and musician @dudukouate 📅May 30 and 31 · ⏰8.30pm CET   📍@morphine_records_raum #Norientrecommends #Blackcomunion #Berlin #DecolonizeListening #MorphineRaum #MorphineRecords #dudukouatè

WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT DELHI AND OUR STRUGGLES, IT IS DEEPLY FASCINATING HOW WE ALL HAVE BECOME THE OTHER… An enthralling conversation with the Delhi-based ensemble @chaaryaar Chaar Yaar/Faqiri Quartet, comprised of @pritamsarod, @deepakcastelino, and @amjadmusic. From the coming together of the ensemble to their thoughts on sounding and listening to the city, its histories, languages, and songs, the group shares stories of their journey and experiences as a collective. Link in Bio.✨ 📹 A film by @geetanjalikalta. Kalta is an aspiring sound artist who grew up listening to folk tunes in the Himalayan Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. She currently works as a sound recordist, a live sound engineer, and a performing theater musician in Delhi. 🎵 featuring @chaaryaar @pritamsarod @deepakcastelino @amjadmusic 🎨 snap design by upendravaddadi_ 🎧 snap sound by @geetanjalikalta   📒 part of the Norient Online Special «Norient City Sounds: Delhi» that tunes into a polyphony of voices, songs, sounds, and narratives that reimagine and «unconceal» the various worlds and characters constituting the «sonicities» of India’s capital. 💻 curated by @suvanisuri 👾 project team @geetanjalikalta @nayidillise @abhishek_is_on_insta upendravaddadi_ @instant_ammar 🌀 edited by @suvanisuri @hannesliechti 💬 copy editing by @tuckermcgeee 🗓 published 09/20223 ✨ supported by @prohelvetia⁠⁠ #southculturalfunds by @artlink.ch   #delhisensate #chaaryaar #faqiriquartet #sufimusic #folk #punjabimusic #ensemble #translation #language #migration #partitionofIndia #citysounds #thenowinsound

🔊THESE POLITICAL ARTICULATIONS HAVE LONG UNDERGONE THE INJUSTICE OF NOT BEING HEARD THOUGH THEIR MURMUR IS EVERYWHERE. A sound documentary issuing from sites of protest and worship, compiling a sonic muxture of today’s Indian Christian subjectivity and Dalit Christian reality. 👂🏾 Listen to the voices of poetic but hard-headed theologians, pragmatic yet faithful lawyers, and murmuring bodies and energies of Dalit Christians in the capital city of India, as they strive to worship freely. Link in Bio. 🎧 @mithran.rt is a cultural producer and reporter based in New Delhi. Their written work – essays, reported features, and art criticism – has been in publications at home and abroad. 🎨 snap design by upendravaddadi_ 👂🏽snap sound by @mithran.rt @geetanjalikalta 📒 part of the Norient Online Special «Norient City Sounds: Delhi» that tunes into a polyphony of voices, songs, sounds, and narratives that reimagine and «unconceal» the various worlds and characters constituting the «sonicities» of India’s capital. 💻 curated by @suvanisuri 👾 project team @geetanjalikalta @nayidillise @abhishek_is_on_insta @upendravaddadi_ @instant_ammar 🌀 edited by @suvanisuri @hannesliechti 💬 copy editing by @iwasmisinformed 🗓 published 09/20223 ✨ supported by @prohelvetia⁠ #southculturalfunds by @artlink.ch ⁠ #delhisensate #sonicmuxture #murmurs #sounddocumentary #indianchristian #dalitchristian #scstatus #castecensus #conversion #city #sounds #thenowinsound