From westernized hip hop in Bhutan to the instrumentalization of «lusofonia» by Portuguese cultural politics.

  • Like in music, in fog, knowledge appears in layers, and not all of it is to see. (photo: Shubham Kataruka/Wikimedia Commons)
    In Defence of Treason
    Short Essay by TIm Rutherford-Johnson
    What does it mean to be unfaithful in music? Listening to a conversation with composer Ahmed Essyad, our author reflects on why breaking loyalties may be a necessary condition for musical truth.
  • Anusheh Anadil
    Anusheh Anadil – Slow Revolution
    Podcast by Thomas Burkhalter
    In this episode of "Long Take: Life as an Artist", we meet Anusheh Anadil — musician, artist, cultural activist, and social entrepreneur from Bangladesh. She was the lead singer of the band Bangla. The group revolutionized popular culture by bringing traditional spiritual folk songs to urban youth.
  • Outside the Dominant Cultural Narrative: Tanger Fish Market (photo: Rebecca Favale)
    Writing With the Archive
    Sound Piece by Francesca Ceccherini, Zaira Oram, Ash Kilmartin, Abdellah M. Hassak
    A Symphony of Archives transforms historical traces into living sound. In this conversation from the Ultima Festival in Oslo in 2025, curator Francesca Ceccherini (Zaira Oram) speaks with Ash Kilmartin about territory, memory, and the notion of «situated listening».
  • Jdba Rohania (Credit: Leila Bencharnia)
    Weaving Memory into Sound
    Short Essay by Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa
    In Leila Bencharnia’s performance «Fatema U Trab (Fatima and the Dust)», sound is not simply something we hear – it is something that is woven, touched, remembered, and transmitted.