«TIMEZONES» – Episode 19. This episode gives you a feel of what it’s like to be an artist in Karachi, Pakistan. A city of a million plus dreams, hopes, and problems. According to Ali Gul Pir, the most misunderstood place in the world.
From political music in the GDR, the trouble of punk musicians in China and the dangerous life of kurdish folk singers in Turkey.
- Interview by Sumangala DamodaranSumangala Damodaran situates Delhi as a site for the unfolding of a radical imaginary through music. She shares her artistic journeys in the city and recent work that traces a thick constellation of connections between Afroasian contemporary musics and migratory movements.
- Sound Collage by Smita Urmila RajmaneA sound collage excerpted from an audio-visual game that the artist is designing in an attempt to reconstruct erased narratives from school history textbooks across India and facilitate a discussion on censored histories.
- Podcast by Lucia Udvardyová, Máté Elod JankyTIMEZONES Episode 11. This episode delves into Budapest’s independent arts and music scene in the wake of the latest Hungarian parliamentary elections in April 2022.