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Since April 28 2021, Colombians have been on a national strike to tackle inequality, poverty and historical exclusion. This video list is a short trip through audiovisual utopias in which machines become vehicles of resistance.

In this interview, sound artist, composer, and anthropologist Hadi Bastani talks about his listening habits; his earlier research on noise music, glitch, and computer music; and the effect that online fieldwork has had on his collaborative works.

In this essay, the conductor, researcher, and performer Yalda Zamani makes a case for more interdisciplinarity in the conductor’s practice. The search for new methods of collaboration and exchange could inspire new and progressive concepts of leadership in musical practice.

In dem Gedicht für sein gleichnamiges Lied beschreibt der iranische Schauspieler und Dichter Ali Kamrani seine Erfahrungen als Einwanderer in Deutschland.

In comparison to Los Angeles, there was never an Iranian «community» of popular musicians in Germany. Nevertheless, Iranian popular musicians and scholars debating popular music left their traces. Why, our author asks here, were some of them more successful than others?

In the German Democratic Republic, the song «Unsere Heimat» (Our Homeland) became an anthem that glorified the idea of a socialist homeland. After the fall of the Berlin wall, the song disappeared from public memory. At least this was what our author thought.

This is the story of a Palestinian song. A song that originated in the beseiged Palestinian district Yarmouk in Damascus, Syria. After Aeham Ahmad, who played this song in the streets of Damascus, fled to Germany, the meaning of the song has changed.

Every physical interaction leaves traces. In the fifth episode of «Sonic Vignettes», Salomé Voegelin reflects upon the grain of the voice as an irreducible trace of human contact and why it is it is endangered by AI cleaning language.