What is «Treble Culture»? How does what one hears affect what one sees?

  • Mohamed Yaghi in Gaza-City (Credit: Hossam Hamdi Abu Dan)
    A Frequency Called Gaza
    Mohamed Yaghi
    He left Gaza, but it did not leave his ears. A Palestinian sound engineer reflects on how a place becomes a frequency that follows you into exile. What happens when you can no longer filter it out?
  • Artist's impression of the Earth in 6,4 billion years when the Sun exhausted its hydrogen fuel and began evolving into a red giant (photo: Юрий Д.К./Wikimedia).
    The Sun Faces Off With the Moon
    Short Fiction by Anne Lesley Selcer
    In this forest sounds crawl, samples drift, and bodies feel woven to infinity. Read a sonic fiction by the writer and artist Anne Lesley Selcer, an excerpt taken from their in-progress novel CLUB SPACE.
  • 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 for the Sonic Worlding column.
  • Ernest Hare listening to a record in about 1922. Credit: Library of Congress & Flickr/infrogmation
    When a Record Tells Me How to Listen
    Essay by Niccolò Galliano

    Can a single sentence change the way we hear? From listening in darkness to hearing meaning in crackle and dust, this essay explores how records quietly script perception itself.