Music print media are going extinct. Who will research, analyze and critic music? Where will the dialog about and with music take place in the future? And what do music and sound tell us about the global present? At the launch of the series On Music, the online music platform Norient (Norient Sounds) offers answers. The online magazine and network for music scenes from Argentina to Ghana to Pakistan has reinvented itself in 2020 as the Norient Space. It has become a virtual gallery and community platform between art, journalism, and academia that sees music as a seismograph of the times. At the restaurant Weltwirtschaft am HKW, its makers present the Norient Space and discuss the freedoms possible in the future for music journalism beyond algorithms and filter bubbles with artists, journalists, and scholars.
Jenny Fatou Mbaye (Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries, City University of London) will provide an introduction to the topic in her keynote, followed by a discussion with Faisal M. Khan (curator, Akaliko Collective), Bryan Little (film director), Kamila Metwaly (music journalist, musician, curator, Savvy Contemporary) and Ali Gul Pir (rapper, satirist), moderated by Theresa Beyer (music and cultural journalist, Norient).
In addition, Norient’s digital sound and media art gallery “The Now in Sound” celebrates its premiere with a walk-in installation and live music by Sarathy Korwar. On their latest album More Arriving (The Leaf Label), the singer-songwriter, tabla percussionist and drummer Korwar and his band unite classic Indian percussion, contemporary British jazz and electronics.
Afterward, Felicia Chen aka Dis Fig clears a path through techno, rap, noise, and percussive electronics. From Berghain’s Säule to Berlin Community Radio to festivals such as Unsound (Poland), Nyege Nyege (Uganda) and Wetware (China), the Berlin-based producer and DJ are at home in the global underground.
19:00 – Doors open
19:30 – Panel discussion
22:00 – Sarathy Korwar & the UPAJ Collective (Live)
23:00 – Dis Fig (DJ set)
On Music: Life after music magazines – The Norient way at Weltwirtschaft am HKW.
5.3.2020 | Doors 19:00 CET | Starts 19:30 CET
Weltwirtschaft am Haus der Kulturen der Welt | John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 | 10557 Berlin, Germany
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