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He chronicles here his archival research and exuberant artistic collaborations across a map of Afro-sensibility that resoundingly displays that culture is a living activity and a practice of creative hospitality and ultimately, the jam”. —Tsitsi Jaji, author of \u003cem\u003eAfrica in Stereo: Music, Modernism, and Pan-African Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e (2014)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom his longstanding engagement to “un-mute” colonial sound collections captured during the European colonial period, Satch Hoyt’s practice has been dedicated to intervene those collections and awake their sonicity, releasing phonogram recordings and instruments of different regions in Africa from the museological silence. For Hoyt, the sonic opens a portal to the acoustic mappings of history – testimonies of enslavement, resistance, empowerment and liberation, and also the amalgamations of today and the future. 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Sonic Pluralism in Morocco","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"node-buch-full-group-buchtext\" class=\"group-buchtext field-group-div\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field field-name-field-description field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow do the Moroccan sound archives of the writer Paul Bowles from the 1970s sound today with the musicians of that time? What does an earthquake in Agadir have to do with a Japanese science fiction film? What sound do stones have? And what do we learn about environmental pollution by listening to the agar agar algae?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing on critical sound studies, ethnographic research, and artistic practice, this book offers multivoiced narratives about acoustic practices in Morocco. Gilles Aubry‘s research on the sonic dimensions of our environment, ranges from animal, plant, and mineral voices to ritual practices and technological infrastructures. The Arabic word for these voices in the physical but also in the technological sense is sawt. In collaborations with local musicians, artists and scientists, Aubry explores in experimental settings listening as the basis of „sonic pluralism“.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe dense descriptions of the multidisciplinary research are complemented by series of photographies. Via QR codes, the text is linked to audiovisual essays and compositions by the artist. The layout of the book takes up this close linking of digital and analog materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn May 2023, a Norient Online Special on Sawt, Bodies, Species will be published on the norient.com website:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/norient.com\/sawt-bodies-species\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/norient.com\/sawt-bodies-species\"\u003eFind the Norient Online Special here\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"node-buch-full-group-slideshow-and-metadata-2\" class=\"group-slideshow-and-metadata-2 field-group-div\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"field-slideshow-2-wrapper\" class=\"field-slideshow-wrapper\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-slideshow field-slideshow-2 effect-fade timeout-4000 with-pager with-controls field-slideshow-processed\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Adocs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889992585546,"sku":"9783943253641","price":28.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/download.jpg?v=1688574080"},{"product_id":"universal-beings-2lp-record","title":"Universal Beings (2LP)","description":"Paris-born, New England-raised, long-time Chicago-residing \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMakaya McCraven\u003c\/strong\u003e has been at the forefront of genre-redefining movements in jazz since 2015, when he introduced the world to his unique brand of ‘organic beat music’ on the breakout album \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the Moment\u003c\/em\u003e. Culled, cut, post-produced and re-composed by Makaya using recordings of free improvisation he collected over dozens of live sessions in Chicago, through incubation and experimentation \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the Moment\u003c\/em\u003e established a procedural blueprint that he has since been sharpening and developing. Honing this process on narrower sets of source material, Makaya followed up \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the Moment\u003c\/em\u003e with two mixtape releases - 2017’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHighly Rare\u003c\/em\u003e, a lo-fi free-jazz-meets-hip-hop suite he made from a live 4-track recording, and June 2018’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhere We Come From\u003c\/em\u003e, which he produced using live recordings from London jazz hub Total Refreshment Centre. 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I went to another shop and they told me ‘don't go to East Berlin because they don’t like Blacks’... Berlin was leaving me feeling very isolated and angry. So the morning we were leaving this hotel, with its homage to Black musicians in every room… They had a piano in their bar area and I decided to play a tune, sing and praise, to leave on a good note. Deacon Otis was filming it as our way of just walking in love, no matter what. As I was singing someone on the staff runs up to me red face and angry saying ‘ma’am please don't do this in the lobby this is not allowed!’ And I just went the fux off. I had had enough of the reprimands... I just couldn't be my genuine Black self anywhere in Berlin without someone reprimanding me…”  Another sound that Angel chose to include in the album is an excerpt from a JazzFest Berlin panel discussion she participated in, which was moderated by writer Emma Warren – a friend of Angel’s – and recorded by Searcy. 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