Snaps

For Indigenous people, listening to music can function as an act of kinship, where identities are strengthened and acknowledged through building relationships with their environment. Read an essay by Indigenous musicologist and pianist, Renata Yazzie.

Read this essay by artist, researcher, and writer Budhaditya Chattopadhyay on how a critical engagement with Global Souths, diasporic and Indigenous artists and thinkers, and their listening cultures could contribute towards equitable planetary conversations.

To memorize a place and its emotional attachment to it, a form is needed. This is what our writer, Gisela Swaragita, is reminded of when listening to Liew Niyomkarn’s music, in which the musician captures moments of her childhood with field recordings.

What happens when a record player is played with acrylic nails instead of a needle? Read an essay by the scholar and writer Peggy Kyoungwon Lee in which she evokes a world that refuses to be reproduced.

Read this essay by artistic researcher, and curator Heloisa Amaral, on modes of listening and the possibility of multiphonic attention.

How can people work together across the constraints of time and space, and the cultures they determine? In this conversation, Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter and the artists Abhishek Mathur and Suvani Suri discuss their work on the experimental podcast series Timezones.

This essay by Mark Peter Wright unpacks the microphone as an entangled instrument and fosters a listening practice that engages critically with the sounds one hears.

The artists from this playlist cross borders in ancestral, traditional, and standard Brazilian aesthetics. Both the artists and the list’s curator have a common taste for breaking rules and sometimes respectfully facing a certain black status quo with anarchist acts.