Read this essay by artistic researcher, and curator Heloisa Amaral, on modes of listening and the possibility of multiphonic attention.
How can people work together across the constraints of time and space, and the cultures they determine? In this conversation, Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter and the artists Abhishek Mathur and Suvani Suri discuss their work on the experimental podcast series Timezones.
This essay by Mark Peter Wright unpacks the microphone as an entangled instrument and fosters a listening practice that engages critically with the sounds one hears.
The artists from this playlist cross borders in ancestral, traditional, and standard Brazilian aesthetics. Both the artists and the list’s curator have a common taste for breaking rules and sometimes respectfully facing a certain black status quo with anarchist acts.
From M.I.A. to Charli XCX to Priya Ragu – South Asia between global pop, underground sounds, and protest. Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter travelled through South Asia for his upcoming podcast series «South Asian Sound Stories» and searched current sound streams.
The artists from this playlist cross borders in ancestral, traditional, and standard Brazilian aesthetics. Both the artists and the list’s curator have a common taste for breaking rules and sometimes respectfully facing a certain black status quo with anarchist acts.
While Vietnam faces devastating flooding in 2022, some musicians are turning the uncomfortable into a new playground. Watch 5 video clips curated by the Saigon-based music collective Gãy in which weird sounds and harsh cuts play with our senses.
A selection of some recent releases of Ukrainian experimental music, including artists from the TIMEZONES episode Ukraine. Several of the tracks were written or released during the war in 2022.
In this essay, our author takes a closer look at Polish filmmaker Jan Moszumański’s film «Singeli Movement: Greed for Speed» and uses it as a starting point for a reflection on the genre’s grounding in the digital age and the dissonances embedded deep in its music.
Episode 14 of the «Timezones» podcast series features four candid testimonials by Ukrainian artists recorded in the summer of 2022, a few months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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?
