shut up and listen! 2011 Interdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art December 10th, 2011, 18.00 S. Ayyaz, B. Gál, M. Hussein, mise_en_scene, O. Schneller, D. Swarowsky   Near West - Panel Discussion To what extent do individual provenience, cultural identity and place of residence still play a role within today’s globalized world?  Mailing lists, news groups, bulletin boards, etc. invite like-minded persons to exchange ideas about almost  any imaginable subject. However, the seemingly unbounded openness of the virtual world stands in harsh  contradiction to the reality of political demarcation lines, travel restrictions and other related obstacles.   Does a musical avant-garde exist within the countries of origin of the participating artists?  - Who is its audience? And who supports these art forms? - To what extent does the notion of ‚class’ play a role within contemporary art / sound art? Cross-Culture People | Transculturality | Rediscovered Roots 1. Mazen Hussein lives in Berlin. He studied viola, Arab zither, and music theory in Damaskus as well as  electro-acoustic music in France. shut up and listen! 2011 presents his compositions Mémoire, Hommage and  Départ.   2. Oliver Schneller lives in Berlin. He grew up in several countries in Africa, Europe and Asia, and studied  composition in Germany and the USA. He is the founder of the «Tracing Migrations» Project which documents  and supports the work of emerging composers and sound artists from the Arab world. shut up and listen! 2011  presents his soundscape composition Polis. 3. Austrian artist and cultural producer Daniela Swarowsky lives in Berlin and Rotterdam. Since 2003, she  increasingly concerns herself with the subject of immigration, in a series of art, film, and video projects. shut  up and listen! 2011 presents her documentary film ‘Messages from Paradise #1, Egypt:Vienna’.   4. London-based composer and performer Seth Ayyaz deals in various projects with issues like post-colonial  identity, and contemporary repercussions of Islamic culture. As music director of the Zenith Foundation in  London he initiated the MazaJ Festival of experimental middle-eastern music in London.  shut up and listen!  2011 presents his sound art performance ‘The Bird Ghost at the Zaouia’. In his concept of transculturality, German philosopher Wolfgang Welsch postulates the hybridisation of  cultures as a consequence of global migration processes and technological transformations. Hence, there is no longer anything absolutely foreign, or anything absolutely own (cf. Lutz Götze, 2010). This ‘hyperculturality’  (Byung-Chul Han) concerns every single person. At the same time, those, who made the step into an (at least  temporary) emigration, seem to start reflecting their roots anew, ‘from afar’. And which roots might that be?  … All these issues we would like to discuss! ABOUT          PROGRAMME          SUAL AWARD           PRESS          IMPRESSUM          SUAL HOME