Portrait of the composer Emre Dündar from Istanbul, guest of Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD in 2020. Translation by Erik Smith.
http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/gast.php?id=1378
Trombone Players
Radio broadcast for SWR with music by Gerhard Gschlößl, Antonia Hausmann, Maxine Troglauer, Lisa Stick, Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, Rosie Turton, German Trombone Vibration and Siya Makuzeni’s band SPAZA.
[No longer available online]
Eric Dolphy
Radio broadcast for SWR about Eric Dolphy’s “The Complete Prestige Recordings”
[No longer available online]
Jérôme Bel – Isadora Duncan
Radio broadcast for Deutschlandfunk about the premiere of “Isadora Duncan” by choreographer Jérôme Bel at the festival “Tanz im August“
Detect Classic Festival
Radio broadcast for Deutschlandfunk about the new festival Detect Classic that took place at Neubrandenburg’s beautiful Tollensesee lake
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/detect-classic-festival-feeling-in-frueherem-panzerwerk.1993.de.html
Echoes of the South Atlantic
Radio broadcast for Deutschlandfunk about the conference Echoes of the South Atlantic that took place July 10–11 at HKW in Berlin. Including quotes by Paul Gilroy and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bekolo
“Disco Islam”
Radio broadcast for Deutschlandfunk about “Disco Islam” by artist Bijan Moosavi
Portrait Matana Roberts
Portrait of Matana Roberts for the magazine sonic
Phonographic Knowledge and the African Past
Radio broadcast for Deutschlandfunk about the Andrew W. Mellon Workshop, chaired by Ronald Radano, that took place from June 3 – 7 at the American Academy Berlin. Containing recordings of the Lautarchiv Berlin, of Pierre Schaeffer’s recordings from the 1950s in Mali that he later released on the French label Ocora, of the music theater The Head & the Load by William Kentridge (music by Thutuka Sibisi and Philip Miller), and quotes by Ronald Radano and Thuthuka Sibisi.
Artists in Tehran
Article on the art scene in Tehran/Iran in the Swiss newspaper NZZ