Snaps

Before archives fix meaning, frequencies move. An opening conversation for the new Norient publication on listening, sonic pluralism, and the politics of what is heard – and what remains unheard.

«Friction brings movement and this friction makes me move personally.»

the feeling in your ears is like the fruits suddenly ripening

He left Gaza, but it did not leave his ears. A Palestinian sound engineer reflects on how a place becomes a frequency that follows you into exile. What happens when you can no longer filter it out?

Episode 24 of the «TIMEZONES» podcast series moves through Singapore and the Malay archipelago gathering voices, songs, and personal stories that are carried across the waters of Southeast Asia.

the landscape is part of the performance

Episode 23 of the «TIMEZONES» podcast series comes from Porto and explores the delicate interplay between memory, place, people, and sound in a city at the crossroads.

What does it mean to be unfaithful in music? Listening to a conversation with composer Ahmed Essyad, our author reflects on why breaking loyalties may be a necessary condition for musical truth.