From Pakistani wrestling practice «kushti» to muezzin singing contests in Turkey.

  • Timezones Singapore
    Singapore: Archipelagic Drift
    Podcast by Zachary Chan, Rosemainy Buang
    «TIMEZONES» – Episode 24 What does it mean to live on an island and yet feel estranged from the sea? Moving through Singapore and the Malay archipelago, this episode, produced by Zachary Chan and Rosemainy Buang, gathers voices, songs, and personal stories that are carried across the waters of Southeast Asia.
  • The performance artist Ramia Beladel, Moulay Bouchta, July 2017 (photo: Gilles Aubry).
    A Wasted Breath Inside a Balloon
    Sound Piece by Gilles Aubry, Ramia Beladel
    Informed by Ramia Beladel’s research on Sufi healing, this sound piece relies on trance and self-reconfiguration. The soundtrack includes sounds recorded during an annual celebration of the local saint in Moulay Bouchta, Morocco.
  • Trance
    Quotation by Ramia Beladel

    «Trance is like a boiling inside me.»

  • Cover of the forthcoming album «Future Chorus» by Eleni Ikoniadou et al (Artwork: Vasilis Marmatakis, 2022)
    Incubator of Possibility
    Column by Eleni Ikoniadou
    A lament is a clandestine form of remembering. In this sonic fiction, our writer imagines a chorus of marginalized voices arriving from the future and enacting a critical fabulation of the past and present.