Does a crematorium really have worst sounds in the world? Is there a sound free of any symbolic meaning?

  • Nextones Festival 2026 - Tones Teatro Natura (@martinanicolegarbin).
    Listening Before the Music Begins
    Short Essay by Rebecca Favale
    Before the first note is played, listening has already begun. This essay explores how walking through the landscape around Nextones in Italy becomes part of the listening experience, blurring place and performance.
  • A photograph of the waterlogged battlefield at the Battle of Passchendaele (October-November 1917) near Ypres in Flanders, Belgium during the First World War (1914-18). Photograph taken by Frank Hurley.
    «My role as a composer is to surface truth»
    Interview by Hugo Emmerzael
    How can music capture the violence of war without turning it into spectacle? Grammy Award-winning composer Sam Slater talks about scoring documentaries like «Chernobyl» or «2000 Meters to Andriivka», blending frontline sounds, ghostly voices, and self-built instruments.
  • 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.
  • Whispers 2.
    Whispers 2
    Playlist by Saifulhaq
    These lesser heard whispers are alive and loud, they are thriving underground and are nursed by unyielding devotees. Saifulhaq, an extreme music veteran in the city, compiles favorite performances from the metal and punk shows in Jakarta.