Does a crematorium really have worst sounds in the world? Is there a sound free of any symbolic meaning?

  • Ali Faiq and Idr Basrou, film still from «L’Makina», Gilles Aubry 2023 (photo: Gilles Aubry).
    An Invitation to Decentralize Our Subjectivity
    Response by Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa
    Speaking from the perspective of a researcher in art history and curatorial practitioner in Morocco, our author considers the idea of experimentation as one of the central aspects of Gilles Aubry’s book «Sawt, Bodies, Species».
  • «Displaced» (1991, oil on canvas) – By the author’s aunt.
    And Somewhere I’ve Heard the Screams Before
    Short Essay by Shayan Navab
    In this essay, the diasporan writer Shayan reflects on the sounds of the Iranian revolutions, from the delicate stories of his family’s past to the brutal videos circulating in the aftermath of the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022.
  • Intensities of the listening sensate (image: Upendra Vadadi).
    Listening to a Chimera
    Introduction by Suvani Suri
    An introductory note to the third edition of Norient City Sounds moored in Delhi, India. This collection tunes into a polyphony of voices, songs, sounds, and stories that reimagine and «unconceal» the many worlds and characters constituting the capital’s «sonicities».
  • Andi Otto (photo Klang Moor Schopfe).
    Accompanied by Physics
    Audio Essay by Philipp Rhensius, Andi Otto
    How does wood sound? This is one of the questions in Andi Otto’s interactive sound installation at Klangmoorschope 2023. Listen to an audio essay in which he discusses his way of relating to the environment with sound.