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.
«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
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.
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.
A selection of recent releases from Kampala’s prospering underground music scene, including artists from the corresponding TIMEZONES episode.
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».
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.
A snappy and disorienting selection of music videos to give you a taste of some sights and sounds brewed over years in Delhi sauce.
Sumangala Damodaran situates Delhi as a site for the unfolding of a radical imaginary through music. She shares her artistic journeys in the city and recent work that traces a thick constellation of connections between Afroasian contemporary musics and migratory movements.
Walking around the city of Delhi, India with archivist and record-collector Nishant Mittal (Digging in India) and making a pitstop at Ghalib’s tomb as he shares anecdotes from his record collections.
