Snaps

This playlist is a sonic archive of the chapters of my life and their relation to Jakarta.

These lesser heard whispers are alive and loud, they are thriving underground and are nursed by unyielding devotees. Saifulhaq, an extreme music veteran in the city, compiles favorite performances from the metal and punk shows in Jakarta.

A Jakarta-born-and-bred music enthusiast compiles representative sounds of her hometown. Her insights that emerge in the process are surprising!

Haikal Azizi, the man behind noir folk/pop Bin Idris, reminisces on spiritual roots in his hometown of Depok.

Episode 22 of the «TIMEZONES» podcast series comes from Tehran and is an introspection on where an artist or artistic journey finds its existence – where it starts and ends, how it emerges, unfolds, or even falls into silence.

Sound is memory, testimony, and sometimes just a boring hiss inside one’s flat. From Stolpersteine to deep-sea mining – this dialogic essay reflects the potential and pitfalls of sound as intro to the new Norient publication with Rewire 2025.

With their performance The Drum and The Bird at Rewire festival 2025, Forensis and Bill Kouliglas unearth the echoes of colonial violence in Namibia – amplifying erased voices, lost ecologies, and the land’s testimony. A conversation about how sound can make history audible.

What if curation means paying attention? A poem from the book «Politics of Curatorship».