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Audio-visual Performance by norient
SONIC TRACES:
FROM THE ARAB WORLD
In this performance scientists, sound and video artists collaborate to present an audio-visual lecture on experimental and urban music from the Arab World (main focus: Mashriq). It shows how the sonic environment influences contemporary sound artists and musicians in their sound aesthetic. We hear propaganda music by various political groups and clans, psychedelic Arabic rock from the 1960s and 1970s, the noise of bombs and machine guns, synthesized «New Wave» Dabké, old and rare shellac recordings from the beginnings of the 20th Century, Death Metal, Rap, Electro-Acoustic Music, Musique Concrète, and much more. The performance and lecture shows the disturbing, challenging and surprising ways in which «locality», «place» and «authenticity» are created in today’s increasingly transnational and digitalized world.
Sonic Traces from the Arab World is produced and presented live by Thomas Burkhalter, Simon Grab and Michael Spahr. Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist and cultural journalist who is currently finishing his PHD project «Challening Difference – Contemporary Sounds from Beirut». The video artist Michael Spahr aka VJ Rhaps has been working with several Arab artists (Mahmoud Turkmani, Kamilya Jubran) in the last years. Simon Grab is a producer and sound artist living in Zurich. The project has been commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (project sitemapping).
NORIENT – Independent Network for Local and Global Soundscapes - focuses on experimental and urban music and music scenes all over the world. As an international platform it aims to understand and show the many and often contradictory faces of cultural globalization and localization through articles about music, urbanism and politics, «authenticity», «modernity», «place» and «transnational spaces», written by musicians, scholars and music journalists from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and the US.
Please check out our website:
www.norient.com
Norient was founded by Thomas Burkhalter, an ethnomusicologist and cultural journalist from Bern (Switzerland). He has written on the music and cultural scenes of cities like Beirut, Istanbul, Cairo, Duschanbe, Belgrade, Johannesburg, and Mumbai for Swiss and international media.
NORIENT also produces larger and smaller projects and events. In 2009 it works with the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland.
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