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

  • 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 as a new episode of the Sonic Worlding column.
  • Life-changing Parties
    Quotation by Luisa Fernanda Uribe, Eduardo Santos

    «We have parties and early mornings that feel eternal as if the entire world is at our disposal.»

  • We talk about being «transported» by music, but we don’t often ask where it takes us. Maybe here? (photo: NASA/ESA 2015).
    The Otherworld of Music
    Short Essay by Fran Pope
    Music that hits you so strong that you stop what you were doing, transporting you to an otherworld. In this essay, our writer ponders this alternative space she finds when listening to specific tracks.
  • Intensities of the listening sensate (image: Upendra Vadadi).
    Listening to a Chimera
    Introduction by Suvani Suri
    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».