What happens, when artists move from one to another country? For example, when an Arab artist replaces the big tractors in her the village with big jeeps of the West.

  • Short Essay by Pardis Zarghampour
    In diesem Text reflektiert die in Deutschland lebende, lurische Sängerin Pardis Zarghampour ihr Verhältnis zur Kultur der Luren, einer indigenen iranischen Volksgruppe. Insbesondere die Musik spielt in der Kulturvermittlung eine bedeutende Rolle.
  • Interview by Sumangala Damodaran
    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.
  • Film by Abhishek Mathur
    Abhishek Mathur, a musician in an ensemble band himself, ventures out to spend a day with a ceremonious gathering of brass bands. He reflects on the tensions and contradictions layering the multidimensional worlds of bandsmen and the sonic explosions that they create.
  • Interview by Geetanjali Kalta
    A conversation with the Delhi-based ensemble Chaar Yaar / Faqiri Quartet about the ensemble, language, translation, Sufi poetry, listening to histories, and songs of love, joy, and collectivity in times of divisiveness.