Making field recordings is like tapping into an alien world. For our writer, it feels less like experiencing, more like becoming time itself.
Episode 11 of the «Timezones» podcast series delves into Budapest’s independent arts and music scene in the wake of the latest Hungarian parliamentary elections in April 2022.
In this sonic fiction, our writer depicts the Moroccan avant garde band Nass El Ghiwane as straying birds in search of a different life.
Listen to this playlist with a selection of tracks from the city’s underground producers.
Listen to this playlist of artists from Beirut. This selection features new and older releases by musicians across musical genres.
An introductory text to the Online Special «Norient City Sounds: Beirut». Special curator and writer Rayya Badran asks: what are the sounds of the aftermath of a collapse?
Singer and composer Sandy Chamoun draws from an array of musical genres from the region and beyond in this spellbinding mixtape where she assembles tracks that give voice to feelings of pain, loss, and rage.
In this sound piece, Ziad Moukarzel uses the recordings taken on a walk through Beirut, Lebanon, as a point of departure for this composition, which seamlessly blends exterior and interior sounds during one the most acute fuel crises the country has faced.
Field recordings and sampling are at the center of this short essay in which performer and music producer Jana Saleh explains why her inability to use recordings of Beirut’s momentous events has led her to think differently about musical composition.
Producer, DJ, radio host, and label owner Ziad Nawfal presents a moving mixtape which bids farewell to his native city of Beirut. True to his mission of promoting music from Lebanon, Nawfal includes some of his favorite local musicians, interspersed with field recordings.
In this short essay, Rabea Hajaig recalls his experience as a Friday-night DJ at Bardo, the famous, now closed, queer bar in Beirut, Lebanon, its dance floors awash with a complex interplay of music.
