The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music, sounds and music videos. Edited by Theresa Beyer, Thomas Burkhalter and Hannes Liechti. Deutsche Version hier.
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Scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from Bolivia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Switzerland and forty-six other countries discuss artistic expressions that may not make big headlines yet, but anticipate major changes to come. Produced in oftentimes small studios from Jakarta to La Paz, Cape Town to Helsinki, these works experiment with the new possibilities of the Internet age and illuminate new spaces beyond the confines of commercialism, propaganda, and bigotry. They foresee a changing geography of multi-layered modernities, far beyond old ideas of North versus South, West versus East. Discover this through a collage of articles, interviews, quotations, photographs and lyrics.
Topics. music and money, music an loneliness, music and war, exotica, gender, sampling-culture, post-digital pop
Examples. Punk in Bolivia and Indonesia, Electronic Music in Egypt, Underground Pop from South Africa and Nigeria, Rap in Pakistan, Serbia, Chile and Ghana, Noise Music from Israel, Seapunk and Vaporwave from the US, Post Digital Pop from the UK, Neuer Konzeptualismus, and much more.
Articles by Aisha Deme, Jenny Mbaye, Wayne Marshall, Cande Sánchez Olmos, John Hutnyk, Thomas Burkhalter, Andy Bennett, Theresa Beyer, Sandeep Bhagwati, Hillegonda C. Rietveld, Ali Haider Habib, Arie Amaya-Akkermans, Martin Daughtry, Hannes Liechti, Derek Walmsley, Elijah Wald, C-drík Fermont, FrankJavCee, Florian Sievers, Percy Mabandu, Louise Gray, Nabeel Zuberi, Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Julio Mendívil, Oliver Seibt, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Emma Dabiri, Jonathan Fischer, B Camminga, Sonja Eismann, Michael Rebhahn, Eduardo Navas, Adam Harper, and many more.
Table of Contents & Introduction. Download PDF here.
Introducing Video
Musik: Slugabed (UK) – from Norient Mixtape for the Norient Exhibition «Seismographic Sounds»
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Imprint
Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World
Editors: Theresa Beyer, Thomas Burkhalter, Hannes Liechti
Publisher: Norient Books, Bern
Year: 2015
Pages: 504
Edition: 1
ISBN: 978-3-9524496-0-8
Languages: English (75%), German (24%), French, Italian (1%)
Art Design: gut & schön, Annegreth Schärli
Press Quotes
«This is a remarkable book. It is brilliantly messy, complex and compelling, just like the diversity of global musical life it celebrates and interrogates in fact.» Tony Herrington, Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, The Wire
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Press Quotes
→ Detailed clipping report see here
«Die alte neutrale Schweiz als Mikrokredit-Drehscheibe in der neuen musikalischen Weltordnung.» Kasper Surber, WoZ – Die Wochenzeitung
«Mit «Seismographic Sounds» wird insbesondere die Lust geweckt, sich auf Entdeckungsreise nach neuen Klängen und Eindrücken zu begeben.» Michael Gasser, Schweizer Musikzeitung SMZ
«Was Norients Arbeit vor Ohren und Augen führ: Abseits des Mainstrrams hört der unter westlichem Diktat angerührte globalisierte Einheitsbrei auf. Dort regiert eine wilde, emanzipierte Klang- und Bildvielfalt.» Stefan Franzen, Badische Zeitung
«Alles bunt und schrill hier, anregend fremd und oft schräg die Neugierde weckend.» Markus Ganz, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
«Wir müssen wegkommen von den Europäern, die erklären, wie es anderswo ist. Ein nigerianisches Musikstück sollte auch von einem Nigerianer kommentiert werden.» Kurator Thomas Burkhalter, in Badische Zeitung
«Die Trends der Zukunft dürften in Ländern wie China, Indien oder Südafrika gemacht werden. In zehn Jahren wird es normal sein, dass auch Künstler aus diesen Ländern bei uns an Festivals auftreten, ohne dass sie Weltmusik machen.» Kurator Thomas Burkhalter, in Aargauer Zeitung
Partners and Funders
Jubiläumsstiftung Schweizerische Mobiliar
