From Pakistani wrestling practice «kushti» to muezzin singing contests in Turkey.

  • The performance artist Ramia Beladel, Moulay Bouchta, July 2017 (photo: Gilles Aubry).
    A Wasted Breath Inside a Balloon
    Sound Piece by Gilles Aubry, Ramia Beladel
    Informed by Ramia Beladel’s research on Sufi healing, this sound piece relies on trance and self-reconfiguration. The soundtrack includes sounds recorded during an annual celebration of the local saint in Moulay Bouchta, Morocco.
  • Trance
    Quotation by Ramia Beladel

    «Trance is like a boiling inside me.»

  • Cover of the forthcoming album «Future Chorus» by Eleni Ikoniadou et al (Artwork: Vasilis Marmatakis, 2022)
    Incubator of Possibility
    Column by Eleni Ikoniadou
    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.
  • Self portrait of Marija Mitrovi, a Montenegro-based contemporary pianist, multimedia artist and researcher, and participant of the OneBeat residency program in New York, 2021.
    A Sonic Approach to Participatory Action
    Short Essay by Constanza Bizraelli
    In this essay, the composer Constanza Bizraelli reflects on the potential of technology to channel sound practices as participatory action, inspired by a workshop of the «OneBeat» residency program.