By thinking about and with sound, we experience the world through embodied practices. In her mesmerizing sonic essay based on field recordings in a protest-struck Cairo, our contributor asks: How are bodies, things, and cityscapes interconnected?
A selection of eclectic, experimental, electroacoustic music from Buenos Aires, Argentina. All these compositions explore the plasticity of sound. They take us by the ear into hallucinations that are as beautiful as they are chaotic, noisy, or delirious.
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.
Episode 13 of the «Timezones» podcast series examines how communities and friendship networks help strengthen artistic explorations among musicians in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires.
Listen to this playlist of artists from Colombo. A mix of original Sri Lankan popular and underground tracks both by Sinhala and Tamil artists.
The accordion is the most important traditional instrument in Slovenian music – but is it really the most uncool? Watch five music videos in which it is used in the usual but also experimental ways, from turbofolk to trap.
For Uruguay’s music undergrounds, pushing aesthetics and social change forward goes hand in hand. Listen to 5 music videos that function as safe spaces to express feminism, LGBTQIA+ rights, and hedonism.
Episode 12 of the «Timezones» podcast series explores the creation of art during the political struggle that has shaped Sri Lanka and its capital Colombo since the start of 2022.
From K-pop to reggaeton, from afrobeats, mahraganat to hyperpop. Music researcher and Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter guides us through new sounds of the world. Enjoy the playlist of this mixtape, produced for Swiss national radio SRF3.
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.
