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

  • A photograph of the waterlogged battlefield at the Battle of Passchendaele (October-November 1917) near Ypres in Flanders, Belgium during the First World War (1914-18). Photograph taken by Frank Hurley.
    «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.
  • 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.
  • Jakarta Keras.
    Jakarta Keras
    Essay by Rugun Sirait
    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.