About the micropolitical qualities of sound as a non-conscious experience of intensity.

  • Le Slie's (credit: Abhishek Mathur).
    Roberto Maqueda & Fabrizio di Salvo ~ Le Slie's
    Podcast by Abhishek Mathur

    «Friction brings movement and this friction makes me move personally.» Fabrizio di Salvo & Roberto Maqueda

  • A photograph of the waterlogged battlefield at the Battle of Passchendaele (October-November 1917) near Ypres in Flanders, Belgium during the First World War (1914-18). Photograph taken by Frank Hurley.
    «My role as a composer is to surface truth»
    Interview by Hugo Emmerzael
    How can music capture the violence of war without turning it into spectacle? Grammy Award-winning composer Sam Slater talks about scoring documentaries like «Chernobyl» or «2000 Meters to Andriivka», blending frontline sounds, ghostly voices, and self-built instruments.
  • What are you listening to this summer? (photo: Adam Jones/Wikimedia).
    AUX Cord
    Short Fiction by Matilda Lin Berke
    When two people fall in love, they neither know nor talk about it. They can only reach each other through sonic fiction. Read a flash fiction story for the Sonic Worlding column.
  • Asphalte Gais (credit: Florian Bach).
    Florian Bach & Alexandre Babel ~ Asphalte Gais
    Podcast by Abhishek Mathur
    Florian Bach and Alexandre Babel play with the idea of negative space and absence in this imagination of their work Ashphalte. Elements such as light, color and sculptures change the objects and their surroundings and create a counterpoint between sound and image.