Snaps

Improvising with machines. Listen to an audio essay featuring Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper from the duo MSHR, in which they discuss their sound installation at Klangmoorschopfe 2023 based on a cybernetic feedback system.

A selection of recent releases from Kampala’s prospering underground music scene, including artists from the corresponding TIMEZONES episode.

An introductory note to the third edition of Norient City Sounds moored in Delhi, India. This collection tunes into a polyphony of voices, songs, sounds, and stories that reimagine and «unconceal» the many worlds and characters constituting the capital’s «sonicities».

This compact nonstop compilation by DJ Karma showcases rap and R&B music by artists primarily from Nepal, Tibet, Nagaland, Sikkim, and other regions of the Northeast of India, currently residing in the city of Delhi.

Ruhail Qaisar’s experimental composition from New Delhi, India evokes the chaotic magnitude of a city that is forever in the throes of construction, demolition, and frenetic movement, engulfing one in a sensorium of overstimulation.

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.

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».