Loneliness can feel like isolation, but can also be a positive solitude by keeping distance from the worlds’ chaos.

  • A painting by Devangana created during incarceration. Titled «Sultana’s Dream», it is inspired by Gond artist Durga Bai’s illustrations (photo: Devangana Kalita).
    Our Prison Soundtrack
    Essay by Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal
    How can one think about city sounds without taking into account the sounds that have been silenced by the state? This question underscores the essay by Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita as they contemplate the sound of time spent in unjust incarceration by the state.
  • Screenshot Noush Like Sploosh - Lonely At Night Official Music Video, 2018.
    5 Video Clips from UAE: Home Is Where No Home Is
    Playlist by WYWY
    The population of the United Arab Emirates consists of 90% expats. For this video list, the UAE based synth-pop duo WYWY collected music videos that felt like home in a place where no one is permanently at home.
  • Yalda Zamani conducting the Cracovia Sinfonietta at Penderecki Center in Lusławice, Poland (photo: the artist, 2015).
    Collaborations Instead of Hierarchies
    Short Essay by Yalda Zamani
    The conductor, researcher, and performer Yalda Zamani makes a case for more interdisciplinarity in the conductor’s practice. The search for new methods of collaboration and exchange could inspire new and progressive concepts of leadership in musical practice.
  • Loneliness brings a fog, a lack of clarity. It makes one question if they were ever really even there (photo: Justin Salhani; additional design by Marina Benetti).
    Italy’s Unseen Foreigners and Immigrants
    Short Essay by Justin Olivier Salhani
    Life in Milan through a foreigner’s eyes: A mix of indifference to the Other, social invisibility, and Italy’s dependence on cultural artifacts imported from overseas.