Affect

How can music capture the violence of war without turning it into spectacle? Grammy Award-winning composer Sam Slater talks about scoring documentaries like «Chernobyl» or «2000 Meters to Andriivka», blending frontline sounds, ghostly voices, and self-built instruments.

This video essay offers an unfiltered look into Jakarta's music scene through cellphone footage of one of its most familiar faces.

When two people fall in love, they neither know nor talk about it. They can only reach each other through sonic fiction. Read a flash fiction story for the Sonic Worlding column.

A Jakarta born-and-bred girl contemplates the word «keras», a nuanced word that can mean both «hard» like a rock and «loud» like an explosion. «Jakarta Keras» is a common catchphrase that illustrates the harsh, noisy reality of living in the capital city – a city every citizen loves to hate, but still calls home.