Snaps

From powwow chanting to dubstep to throat singing to rap – enjoy a new generation of Indigenous artists, who are intertwining bits of contemporary music with ancient Indigenous traditions, for powerful anthems of cultural identity.

In this essay, the diasporan writer Shayan reflects on the sounds of the Iranian revolutions, from the delicate stories of his family’s past to the brutal videos circulating in the aftermath of the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022.

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».

Dawn choruses recorded in different parts of the capital city of Delhi, India, are composed into a soundscape that unravels the contradictions thriving in a city just as it wakes up.

Sumangala Damodaran situates Delhi as a site for the unfolding of a radical imaginary through music. She shares her artistic journeys in the city and recent work that traces a thick constellation of connections between Afroasian contemporary musics and migratory movements.

A compositional memoir in which the author introduces a conversation between different generations in his family to delve into and construct the acoustic memories of Jamia, a part of the city of Delhi, India that he calls home.