How does the artits’ relationship to the gear affect music? How to make the climate change audible?

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    Knowing Your Tools
    Podcast by Philipp Rhensius, Ioana Vreme Moser
    How can old technologies be reactivated? In her work at Klangmoorschopfe 2023, the sound artist Ioana Vreme Moser lets the supposedly obsolete fluidics interact with current electronic components to develop a more sustainable future. Listen to her vision in this short podcast.
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    Cybernetic Improvisation
    Audio Essay by Philipp Rhensius, MSHR
    Improvising with machines. Listen to an audio essay featuring Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper from the duo MSHR, in which they discuss their sound installation at Klangmoorschopfe 2023 based on a cybernetic feedback system.
  • At Mr. Khan’s workshop as he tinkers with a vintage tape machine (photo: Neelansh Mittra).
    Khan Sa’ab’s Listening Room
    Film by Jayant Manchanda
    A film that transports one to the listening room assembled by Inspector Khan – a retired police officer, fondly called Khan Sa’ab. In this piece, he talks to the author about his special relationship with music, audio gear, and his adventures as a collector.
  • Kesri Devi with folk artists from different parts of India at a folk music session in New Delhi, March 2023. From left to right: Savita Kalbeliya, Kesri Devi, Geeta Parag, Talb Khan (photo: Raj Das).
    In the Concrete Jungle
    Essay by Sunayana Wadhawan
    Sunayana Wadhawan traces a map of stories from Kathputli Colony (Puppeteer’s Colony) in New Delhi to foreground the pressing concerns of artists and art forms that are displaced and delegitimized in the name of urban development.