TIMEZONES Broadcasts and Events

01.12.2022 | 00:00 – 06.10.2024 | 23:59

The TIMEZONES podcast series plunges into the world of artists and their practices, asking: what does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities, and contexts today? The artists’ thoughts on their moods, their social, political, and intellectual realities and their philosophies (of life) have been worked up into experimental audio collages. The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut.

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Upcoming Broadcasts

2024

April 21: Buenos Aires – Relations Condensed in Practice (Radio Bern RaBe)
May 19: Chaotic Karachi: Expressions for Sanity (Radio Bern RaBe)
Jun 16: Music or Weapon: Four Monologoues from Ukraine (Radio Bern RaBe)
Jul 14: Aragalaya: Inside the People’s Struggles in Colombo (Radio Bern RaBe)
Aug 11: Gaza: When Beyond the Norm Becomes the Norm (Radio Bern RaBe)
Sep 8: DIY or Die: Budapest Beneath the Surface (Radio Bern RaBe)
Oct 6: Here and Now: The Subtle Pressures of Cairo (Radio Bern RaBe)

Upcoming Events

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Past Broadcasts

2024

Jan 28: Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing Lima’s Sonic and Poetic Landscapes (Radio Bern RaBe)
Jan 31: Chaotic Karachi: Expressions for Sanity (Sphere Radio Leipzig & Radio X Basel)
Feb 25: Hanoi Undercurrents (Radio Bern RaBe)
Mar 24: When Creativity Meets Chaos: Insights into the Uncompressed Music Scene in Kampala (Radio Bern RaBe)

2023

Jan 26: Beirut: Traces of a City – A Pod Poem (Sphere Radio Leipzig)
Apr 26: Nairobi’s Next Generation Music Producers and Performing Artists Speak Out (Radio X Basel)
May 5: Beirut: Traces of a City – A Pod Poem (Radio X Basel)
Jun 21: Staying Creative Between Beauty and Chaos in Rio de Janeiro (Radio X Basel)
Jul 19: Ears on/of Makiling (Radio X Basel)
Aug 23: Buenos Aires – Relations Condensed in Practice (Radio X Basel)
Sep 29: When Creativity Meets Chaos: Insights into the Uncompressed Music Scene in Kampala (Radio X Basel)
Oct 8: Imagining Worlds and Making Meaning with Four Artists From Delhi (Radio Bern RaBe)
Oct 25: Here and Now: The Subtle Pressures of Cairo (Sphere Radio Leipzig)
Oct 26: Here and Now: The Subtle Pressures of Cairo (Radio X Basel)
Nov 5: Beirut: Traces of a City – A Pod Poem (Radio Bern RaBe)
Nov 29: Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing Lima’s Sonic and Poetic Landscapes (Sphere Radio Leipzig & Radio X Basel)
Dec 3: Nairobi’s Next Generation Music Producers and Performing Artists Speak Out (Radio Bern RaBe)
Dec 27: Hanoi Undercurrents (Sphere Radio Leipzig & Radio X Basel)
Dec 31: Montréal, Your Ears Are My Island (Radio Bern RaBe)

2022

Mar 31: Gaza: When Beyond the Norm Becomes the Norm (Sphere Radio Leipzig)
April 28: Nairobi’s Next Generation Music Producers and Performing Artists Speak Out (Sphere Radio Leipzig)
May 26: Sabac/Belgrade/Zurich: The Life in Music of Three Experimental Musicians (Sphere Radio Leipzig)
Jun 30: Imagining Worlds and Making Meaning with Four Artists From Delhi (Sphere Radio Leipzig)
Jul 28: The Bay Area’s Interdisciplinary Artistic Blueprint (Sphere Radio Leipzig)
Aug 25: Staying Creative Between Beauty and Chaos in Rio de Janeiro (Sphere Radio Leipzig)
Sep 29: DIY or Die: Budapest Beneath the Surface (Sphere Radio Leipzig)
Oct 27: Aragalaya: Inside the People’s Struggles in Colombo (Sphere Radio Leipzig)
Nov 20: Buenos Aires – Relations Condensed in Practice (Sphere Radio Leipzig)
Dec 29: Music or Weapon: Four Monologoues from Ukraine (Sphere Radio Leipzig)

Past Events

2024

Jan 11: Ears on/of Makiling (Norient Festival)
Jan 12: When Creativity Meets Chaos: Insights into the Uncompressed Music Scene in Kampala (Norient Festival)
Jan 14: Staying Creative Between Beauty and Chaos in Rio de Janeiro (Norient Festival)

2023

Apr 6: Ears on/of Makiling (Rewire Festival)
Apr 6: Staying Creative Between Beauty and Chaos in Rio de Janeiro (Rewire Festival)
Apr 7–9: Listening Station (Nairobi, Sabac/Belgrade/Zurich, Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Beirut, Mt Makiling) (Rewire Festival)
Sep 16: Nairobi’s Next Generation Music Producers and Performing Artists Speak Out (Planet Ears Festival)
Sep 16: Music or Weapon: Four Monologoues from Ukraine (Planet Ears Festival)
Oct 19: Beirut: Traces of a City – A Pod Poem (Malmö Folk Festival)
Oct 20–21: Listening Station (Beirut, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mount Makiling, Nairobi, Gaza, Kampala, Cairo) (X_ARTS Basel)

2022

Jan 12–16: Beirut: Traces of a City – A Pod Poem (Norient Festival)

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TIMEZONES – The Podcast About Artists and Their Practices

Norient x Rewire 2024

05.04.2024 | 00:00 – 07.04.2024 | 23:59 CET

The Hague (NL)

Norient and Rewire collaborate again for a digital publication, this year dedicated to the theme of environmental listening. Presented in an assembly, Norient invites festival-goers to discover the diverse sonicities of Delhi, Karachi, and Colombo at the festival for adventurous music in The Hague, Netherlands.

When talking about listening in the broadest sense, listeners are usually at the centre of attention, while they actually always already coexist with any other lifeform. So, what if the sound listens back? In the joint new Online Special When the Sound Listens Back, artists and authors from the Rewire and Norient network and performing at Rewire Festival 2024 share they’re thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a collection of essays, podcasts, and a playlist.

Sound Walk by Anna Khvyl, Rotterdam 2023 (photo: Ran Perry).

Assembly: When the Sound Listens Back

Fri, Apr 5, 3.30-5pm CET
Venue: The Grey Space in The Middle

Join us for the assembly on the publication at The Grey Space In The Middle, moderated by curators Katia Truijen and Philipp Rhensius.

Invited artists Heloisa Amaral, Justin Bennett, Brandon LaBelle, Golnoosh Heshmati, Saint Abdullah, meLê yamomo, Giada Dalla Bontà, and contributors Anna Kvyl and Salomé Voegelin will bring sonic material to collectively listen to, followed by an informal conversation on modes of listening across different times and territories, and their complex sonic ecologies.

Environmental Listening in Delhi

Fri, Apr 5, 1-2pm CET
Venue: Page Not Found

What does it mean to listen to the city in different ways? How does one listen when the sounds of resistance are silenced? What is the soundtrack of a time spent in a prison? Can birds still be heard in the midst of noise pollution? What does the break of dawn sound like? When does the sound of celebration become violent? What is it in all these soundscapes that recalls the past and that proposes alternate futures?

These and other questions will be touched in this listening session. It will present an online publication called Norient City Sounds: Delhi, published in September 2023. It is part of the Norient’s multimedia series of virtual exhibitions and digital publications that explores and portrays the sounds of cities across the globe. After the earlier editions on Nairobi (2022) and Beirut (2022), NCS Delhi unpacks and complicates the notion of Delhi by scattering into many cities of Delhi with the colliding histories, timescales, and spatial arrangements, living archives and echoes of the past. The contributions by 29 artists unconceal the polyphonies within the ocean of sound that is Delhi, moving across eras, genres, practices, and impulses. NCS Delhi is curated by Suvani Suri, a Delhi-based artist and researcher.

On Friday April 5, curator Suvani Suri and Norient curator and editor Hannes Liechti will enter into a conversation on the deeply layered and composite sensorium of a city that both senses and is sensed in a multitude of ways in NCS Delhi and will present and comment on videos, compositions, and images from the publication.

Credit: Ammar

TIMEZONES: Listening to Delhi, Colombo, and Karachi

Fri, Apr 5, 12.00-12.45pm CET
Sat, Apr 6, 12.00-12.45pm CET
Sun, Apr 7, 12.00-12.45pm CET
Venue: The Grey Space in The Middle

How does sound form, un-form and re-form our meanings and speculative realities during times of crisis? In what ways protest can be voiced with music? And what does it feel to be an artist in a city of a million plus dreams, hopes, and problems?

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We are looking forward to collectively listen to three episodes of Norient’s experimental podcast series TIMEZONES at Rewire Festival 2024.

Fri, Apr 5, 1-2pm CET Imagining Worlds and Making Meaning With Four Artists From Delhi – introduced by Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter

Sat, Apr 6, 12-12.45pm CET Aragalaya: Inside the People’s Struggle in Colombo – introduced by Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter

Sun, Apr 7, 1-2pm CET Chaotic Karachi: Expressions for Sanity – introduced by Norient curator and editor Hannes Liechti

By the way: You can listen to these TIMEZONES episodes at a listening station at Page Not Found!

TIMEZONES is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut.

Credit: Carroll Omuom

Instrumental Ecologies: Music Journalism Today

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Sun, Apr 7, 3.30-4.45pm CET The Grey Space in the Middle

Journalists Laura Snapes (The Guardian), Margeaux Labat (Marg.mp3), and Norient founder and director Thomas Burkhalter will enter into a conversation on the state of music journalism today. How can one understand the changing ecology of specialist music platforms, independent media outlets and their struggles, and the shifting role of music journalists? Which editorial formats engage critically and creatively with music today and feel especially effective and valuable? The panel talk is moderated by Hugo Emmerzael and followed by the launch of a magazine, elaborated by participants of the workshop Rewire Reflections covering Rewire Festival 2024.

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Rewire full program 2024