Why Asia is not a continent and how the aesthetics of the NON Worldwide collective create new utopian notions of multi-centred origins.

  • Popular spaces to listen to loud funkot: angkot bus in Indonesia, 2017 (photo: Pxhere).
    Funkot, Gabber’s Distant Cousin from the Far East
    Short Essay by Gisela Swaragita
    One day, when sitting in an angkot minivan in Bogor, our writer had a weird encounter that made her ears ring; it was funkot, a mix of gabber and Indonesian folk. An essay inspired by the music of Animistic Beliefs who performed at MUTEK festival 2023.
  • Design by Anja Kaiser/Jim Kühnel.
    An Equal Sound
    Quotation by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

    «New perspectives could be generated by engaging with Global Souths.»

  • Child of many worlds (artwork: dudusquad).
    From Shamisen to Kayamba
    Short Essay by Sally Garama
    After growing up in Japan, Sally, a Kenyan teenager, wanted to reconnect with Kenyan music upon returning home, while dealing with the meaning of that term, «home».
  • Paradise
    Quotation by Natalie Richardson

    «Paradise is a landscape on which we are constantly rewriting new cultural meanings atop the old.»