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

  • 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.

  • This is where the sound happens. MRI, Inselspital Bern. Photo: Janina Neustupny
    Tube Techno
    Short Essay by Janina Neustupny
    What happens if you turn an MRI scan into a rave? Thoughts on unexpected moments of liberation.