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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.