Race Matters / Norient timezones: Mt Makiling

19.10.25
A collage of sites and artefacts from Mt Makiling layered in a glitch style with the words TIMEZONES MT MAKILING in artistic font on the bottom
Aired on 19.10.25, 10:00am

"The motherland breathes, she is alive, and on our backs" ⁠

Ethan Lyons and Dayvid Soriano take us through stories and sounds of Mount Makiling, Philippines in our next collaboration with Norient Sounds' TIMEZONES series. Weaving together voices finding ancestral roots in the mountains, we learn that Makiling is more than a place: but a teacher, a compass and site of ecological resistance.

Produced by Ethan Lyons, Dayvid Soriano, and Shareeka Helaluddin; with thanks to Suvani Suri, Thomas Burkhalter Abhishek Mathur and the Norient team.

Mt Makiling Episode Credits
A podcast by meLê yamomo and Nono Pardalis. Co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut.

Featuring: Datu Arellano, Donna Cher dela Cruz, Dennis Gupa, Karlene Moreno Hayworth, Reagan Romero Maiquez, Nono Pardalis, and meLê yamomo

Artistic Editor: Abhishek Matur
Project Management: Hannes Liechti
Video Trailer: Emma Nzioka
Jingle Voiceover: Nana Akosua Hanson
Jingle Mix: Daniel Jakob
Mastering: Adi Flück, Centraldubs
Artwork: Šejma Fere

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For many Filipino artists, the mountain is the ground in which their artistic roots were planted – despite moving back to the urban metropolises, to other islands of the archipelago, or to other continents, the mountain is a wormhole through which many artists’ pasts and presents intertwine. Makiling is the constant drone and its winds and rains the ostinati that their present and future experiences of nature, the forest, art, theater, poetry, and music are tuned to.
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