In this essay, the author unpacks memories of the city in the song of Qawwals, observing how in memorializing the past, Delhi emerges in Qawwali not as a location, an identity, or a descriptive category, but always as a space of desire.
A story-telling session that renders Rashid Jahan’s short story, «Dilli Ki Sair» (A journey through Delhi), into a sound work. Written in 1932, the narration relocates it to a contemporary context where the times have changed, yet also not.
A sound collage excerpted from an audio-visual game that the artist is designing in an attempt to reconstruct erased narratives from school history textbooks across India and facilitate a discussion on censored histories.
This piece time travels through the author’s experiences of his years spent in Delhi, India, floating in and out of conversations, encounters, perceptions, and memories of the city through mentors and friends who shaped the author’s practice in sound and listening.
Kashmiri artist/writer Anis Wani renders his conversations with musician Ahmad Parvez and visual artist Malik Irtiza into graphic panels that talk about silences, listening, music, acoustic memories, growing up in a contested territory, and the violence of «city sounds».
Episode 15 of the «TIMEZONES» podcast series offers insight into the uncompressed underground music scene in Kampala, Uganda, shaped by many inspiring and upcoming artists.
How does wood sound? This is one of the questions in Andi Otto’s interactive sound installation at Klangmoorschope 2023. Listen to an audio essay in which he discusses his way of relating to the environment with sound.
Istanbul: the bridge between West and East. This list is curated to show another side of the most populated Turkish city, the one that doesn’t make the headlines. Enjoy a diverse selection of music from bone-crushing metal to piercing rap.
In their sound installation for Klang Moor Schopfe, the collective Zaira Oram explores the notion of the apocalypse. Listen to an audio essay featuring the collective’s initiators Francesca Ceccherini and Eleonora Stassi.
When our playlist curator began performing, the Delhi indie scene consisted of not more than a handful of women who dared to write and perform music in a largely male-dominated space. The handful grew over the years. This playlist pays tribute to the womxn of Indie Delhi.
Challenging the perception of its listeners is at the core vision of the collective Encor Studio. Listen to an audio essay in which they discuss their site-specific installation «Adsum» which creates moments of pure presence.
