About the micropolitical qualities of sound as a non-conscious experience of intensity.

  • Destroyed military vehicles in Bucha, Ukraine, after Russia's invasion in February 2022 (Photo: REUTERS/Serhii Nuzhnenko, March 1, 2022)
    «My role as a composer is to surface truth»
    Interview by Hugo Emmerzael
    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.
  • The Weeds Are in Bloom.
    The Weeds Are in Bloom
    Video Essay by Anida Bajumi, Areispine Dymussaga Miraviori, Robonggo, Gisela Swaragita, Dania Joedo
    This video essay offers an unfiltered look into Jakarta's music scene through cellphone footage of one of its most familiar faces.
  • What are you listening to this summer? (photo: Adam Jones/Wikimedia).
    AUX Cord
    Short Fiction by Matilda Lin Berke
    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.
  • The Weightless Flight
    Photo Series by Peter G. Y. Rumondor, Gisela Swaragita
    Mundor’s stage photography captured the best of Jakarta’s indie scene in the mid 2010s.