Voices Across the Ocean

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Voices Across the Ocean
Voices Across the Ocean

Inspired by Gilles Aubry’s video essay «Atlantic Ragagar», our author reflects on the relationship between water, body, voice, and language. Bulut calls for a critical approach towards voice and language, and a practice of listening with others.

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Quote: Nina Sun Eidsheim (2015), Zeynep Bulut

Here and Now: The Subtle Pressures of Cairo

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Here and Now: The Subtle Pressures of Cairo
Here and Now: The Subtle Pressures of Cairo

Episode 16 of the «TIMEZONES» podcast series hosts three composers, musicians, and DJs of various backgrounds and music styles to shed light on the Egyptian music industry.

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Quote: Nancy Mounir
Design: Šejma Fere

Welcomed Earworms

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Welcomed Earworms
Welcomed Earworms

«Ohrwurm» or «Earworm» – usually used to describe a song torturously stuck in your head. But what about those of us who yearn for this? All I do is listen to one song over and over again, for weeks on end. Is this a happily welcomed, disassociated kind of relief from reality

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Design: Amber Goveas

5 Video Clips from So-Called Canada

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5 Video Clips from So-Called Canada
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Quote: Tanya Tagaq
Design: Amber Goveas
Photo: Monty Sloan/firstpeople.us
Sound: Laura Niguay, A Tribe Called Red feat. Black Bear, Kalolin Johnson feat. Devon Paul and Thunder Herney

And Somewhere I’ve Heard the Screams Before

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And Somewhere I’ve Heard the Screams Before
And Somewhere I’ve Heard the Screams Before

In this essay, the diasporan writer Shayan reflects on the sounds of the Iranian revolutions, from the delicate stories of his family’s past to the brutal videos circulating in the aftermath of the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022.

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Sound: Casanora

Cybernetic Improvisation

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Cybernetic Improvisation
Cybernetic Improvisation

Improvising with machines. Listen to an audio essay featuring Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper from the duo MSHR, in which they discuss their sound installation at Klangmoorschopfe 2023 based on a cybernetic feedback system.

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Photo: KMS 2023

Norient Playlist 10/23: Kampala

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Norient Playlist 10/23: Kampala
Norient Playlist 10/23: Kampala

A selection of recent releases from Kampala’s prospering underground music scene, including artists from the corresponding TIMEZONES episode.

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Sound: Authentically Plastic

Listening to a Chimera

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Listening to a Chimera
Listening to a Chimera

An introductory note to the third edition of Norient City Sounds moored in Delhi, India. This collection tunes into a polyphony of voices, songs, sounds, and stories that reimagine and «unconceal» the many worlds and characters constituting the capital’s «sonicities».

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Folds of Time: Delhi in the Memory of Qawwals

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Folds of Time: Delhi in the Memory of Qawwals
Folds of Time: Delhi in the Memory of Qawwals

In this essay, the author unpacks memories of the city in the song of Qawwals, observing how in memorializing the past, Delhi emerges in Qawwali not as a location, an identity, or a descriptive category, but always as a space of desire.

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Photo: Faizan Siddiqui
Sound: Khawaja Garib Nawaz

In the Concrete Jungle

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In the Concrete Jungle
In the Concrete Jungle

Sunayana Wadhawan traces a map of stories from Kathputli Colony (Puppeteer’s Colony) in New Delhi to foreground the pressing concerns of artists and art forms that are displaced and delegitimized in the name of urban development.

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Photo: Kathputli Colony residents, Geetanjali Kalta, Sunayana Wadhawan
Sound: Kesri Devi, Mahesh Bhatt, Omi Bhatt

~ of many movements and thresholds ~

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~ of many movements and thresholds ~
~ of many movements and thresholds ~

This piece time travels through the author’s experiences of his years spent in Delhi, India, floating in and out of conversations, encounters, perceptions, and memories of the city through mentors and friends who shaped the author’s practice in sound and listening.

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