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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Night and Silence

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Night and Silence
Night and Silence

Ruhail Qaisar’s experimental composition from New Delhi, India evokes the chaotic magnitude of a city that is forever in the throes of construction, demolition, and frenetic movement, engulfing one in a sensorium of overstimulation.

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The City at Dawn

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The City at Dawn
The City at Dawn

Dawn choruses recorded in different parts of the capital city of Delhi, India, are composed into a soundscape that unravels the contradictions thriving in a city just as it wakes up.

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Khan Sa’ab’s Listening Room

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Khan Sa’ab’s Listening Room
Khan Sa’ab’s Listening Room

A film that transports one to the listening room assembled by Inspector Khan – a retired police officer, fondly called Khan Sa’ab. In this piece, he talks to the author about his special relationship with music, audio gear, and his adventures as a collector.

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Quote: Khan Sa’ab

Remembering Ishrat Meenai

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Remembering Ishrat Meenai
Remembering Ishrat Meenai

A compositional memoir in which the author introduces a conversation between different generations in his family to delve into and construct the acoustic memories of Jamia, a part of the city of Delhi, India that he calls home.

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A Day Out with the Bandsmen

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A Day Out with the Bandsmen
A Day Out with the Bandsmen

Abhishek Mathur, a musician in an ensemble band himself, ventures out to spend a day with a ceremonious gathering of brass bands. He reflects on the tensions and contradictions layering the multidimensional worlds of bandsmen and the sonic explosions that they create.

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