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

  • 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

  • Nextones Festival 2026 - Tones Teatro Natura (@martinanicolegarbin).
    Listening Before the Music Begins
    Short Essay by Rebecca Favale
    Before the first note is played, listening has already begun. This essay explores how walking through the landscape around Nextones in Italy becomes part of the listening experience, blurring place and performance.
  • 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.
  • Bells – con sordino (credit: Peter Conradin Zumthor).
    Peter Conradin Zumthor ~ Bells – con sordino
    Podcast by Abhishek Mathur
    Percussionist Peter Conradin Zumthor and inventor Gabriel Schneider modify the sound on the bell of the Reformed Church in Gais. Located in the main square of the town, the artistic intervention to this most familiar of sounds produces a hypnotic collective listening experience.