How does wood sound? This is one of the questions in Andi Otto’s interactive sound installation at Klangmoorschope 2023. Listen to an audio essay in which he discusses his way of relating to the environment with sound.
Istanbul: the bridge between West and East. This list is curated to show another side of the most populated Turkish city, the one that doesn’t make the headlines. Enjoy a diverse selection of music from bone-crushing metal to piercing rap.
In their sound installation for Klang Moor Schopfe, the collective Zaira Oram explores the notion of the apocalypse. Listen to an audio essay featuring the collective’s initiators Francesca Ceccherini and Eleonora Stassi.
When our playlist curator began performing, the Delhi indie scene consisted of not more than a handful of women who dared to write and perform music in a largely male-dominated space. The handful grew over the years. This playlist pays tribute to the womxn of Indie Delhi.
Challenging the perception of its listeners is at the core vision of the collective Encor Studio. Listen to an audio essay in which they discuss their site-specific installation «Adsum» which creates moments of pure presence.
The first form of communication was not language but vibration. Listen to an audio essay featuring the biologist Juan José López and sound artist Ludwig Berger who sonify species that soon threaten to become completely extinct – if we don’t listen.
So-called naff music is considered as lacking in style or taste. It’s not the kind of music you’d claim to be a fan of, but Alex Rigotti finds it to be a hidden side of national British identity.
One day, when sitting in an angkot minivan in Bogor, our writer had a weird encounter that made her ears ring; it was funkot, a mix of gabber and Indonesian folk. An essay inspired by the music of Animistic Beliefs who will perform at MUTEK festival 2023.
A body walks through the city while listening to a DJ mix. The switching between sites is like switching between tracks is like switching between worlds. An essay poem inspired by a mix of the New York-based artist Zarina.
Listen to this mix of dance music from Central Asia. For this, our Bishkek-based contributor compiled a rather diverse playlist of dance music from Kazakh and Kyrgyz musicians, both pop and trending and underground.
Warum bezeichnet Irans Revolutionsführer Ali Khamenei Israel als «bösartigen Krebstumor, der entfernt und vernichtet werden muss»? Über die persisch-sprachige Nazipropaganda im Rundfunk und ihre bis ins 21. Jahrhundert spürbaren Folgen.
