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The Norient Podcast: Sounds Norient
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Norient is a platform for the sound of the world: for contemporary music, quality journalism, cutting-edge research, and events. Norient conceives music, sound, and noise as seismographs of our time. This podcast channel mixes music, sound and speech, and approaches the world through the ear. It runs the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation.
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Temi DollFace: Grandma’s Style Lessons (Seismographic Sounds)
Nigerian singer Temi DollFace finds herself on a «one-woman mission to put the theatrics back into live music». In the podcast she talks about fashion, being a female artist in Nigeria, the influence of her grand mother, and the gap between critical acclaim and mainstream chart success. Finally she comments on her music video «Pata Pata», a parody on materialist desires of the «perfect house wife» as shown in 1950s television ads. A podcast from the Norient exhibition Seismographic Sounds, produced by Tosyn Bucknor.
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Umlilo: Surviving in South Africa’s Queer Scene (Seismographic Sounds)
For the South African artist Umlilo music is freedom and therapy at the same time. In his music he addresses issues of homophobia and bends the common images of gender. «Gender has always been something very natural to me to fuck with», he explains in the Norient podcast. A podcast from the Norient exhibition Seismographic Sounds, produced by Leila Dee Dougan.
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Gato Diablo: Totally Independent (Seismographic Sounds)
In the song «Nunca Tendremos Mar» the Bolivian experimental hardcore punk band Gato Diablo is negotiating with a national trauma, that is, to have lost the access to the sea in the The War of the Pacific between 1879 to 1883. In the podcast the two Gato Diablo members Bernardo Reb Rojas and Espírito speak about what it means to live in Boliva, funding strategies of their music and nationalistic feelings in Bolivia. A podcast from the Norient exhibition Seismographic Sounds, produced by Miguel Hilari.
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Mashrou’ Leila: Facing Racism and Sensationalism (Seismographic Sounds)
Hamed Sinno is the lead singer of the Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou’ Leila. In this podcast he talks about belonging, identity, and representation. And he explains where he is facing racism and sensationalism when doing music as a Lebanese artist in a global context. A podcast from the Norient exhibition Seismographic Sounds, written and produced by Ziad Nawfal.
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Bishi & Matthew Hardern: The Collision of Worlds (Seismographic Sounds)
They love to provoke and they love to extravagate. London-based underground musician Bishi Bhattacharya and her musical partner Matthew Hardern talk in this podcast about their biographies, their artistic development, race, their common project Albion Voice and the corresponding track. Bishi explains why she doesn’t apologize for feeling «like a hot woman» while Hardern states with a loud and resounding laughter why nationalism fascinates him. In the background of this podcast we hear the sound tracks from «Albion Voice». A podcast from the Norient exhibition Seismographic Sounds, produced by Norman Fisher-Jones aka Noko 440.
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FOKN Bois: Rapping Against the Common Sense (Seismographic Sounds)
«It’s like a deformed anger which comes out us. Some kind of shy happiness», says Wanlov the Kubolor, one half of the Ghanaian rap duo FOKN Bois. In the Norient podcast he talks together with his musical partner M3nsa about their visions and their way of doing art in a religion-shaped context. A podcast from the Norient exhibition Seismographic Sounds, produced by Thomas Burkhalter and Maame Adjei.