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

  • Trance
    Quotation by Ramia Beladel

    «Trance is like a boiling inside me.»

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Self portrait of Marija Mitrovi, a Montenegro-based contemporary pianist, multimedia artist and researcher, and participant of the OneBeat residency program in New York, 2021.
    A Sonic Approach to Participatory Action
    Constanza Bizraelli
    In this essay, the composer Constanza Bizraelli reflects on the potential of technology to channel sound practices as participatory action, inspired by a workshop of the «OneBeat» residency program.