Snaps

A selection of some recent releases of Ukrainian experimental music, including artists from the TIMEZONES episode Ukraine. Several of the tracks were written or released during the war in 2022.

In this essay, our author takes a closer look at Polish filmmaker Jan Moszumański’s film «Singeli Movement: Greed for Speed» and uses it as a starting point for a reflection on the genre’s grounding in the digital age and the dissonances embedded deep in its music.

Episode 14 of the «Timezones» podcast series features four candid testimonials by Ukrainian artists recorded in the summer of 2022, a few months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

By thinking about and with sound, we experience the world through embodied practices. In her mesmerizing sonic essay based on field recordings in a protest-struck Cairo, our contributor asks: How are bodies, things, and cityscapes interconnected?

A selection of eclectic, experimental, electroacoustic music from Buenos Aires, Argentina. All these compositions explore the plasticity of sound. They take us by the ear into hallucinations that are as beautiful as they are chaotic, noisy, or delirious.

A lament is a clandestine form of remembering. In this sonic fiction, our writer imagines a chorus of marginalized voices arriving from the future and enacting a critical fabulation of the past and present.

Episode 13 of the «Timezones» podcast series examines how communities and friendship networks help strengthen artistic explorations among musicians in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires.

Listen to this playlist of artists from Colombo. A mix of original Sri Lankan popular and underground tracks both by Sinhala and Tamil artists.