Voice

«TIMEZONES» – Episode 22. Tehran is at the crossroads for the stories told in this episode – whether as a place to return to or escape from. Members of the Khamoosh collective reflect on the question of where an artist or artistic journey finds its existence – where it starts and ends, how it emerges, unfolds, or even falls into silence.

An extended conversation with the Moroccan composer about performance in electroacoustic music, cultural roots and identity, the importance of music, the voice and the body, nature and ecology, and many more topics.

Inspired by Gilles Aubry’s video essay «Atlantic Ragagar», our author reflects on the relationship between water, body, voice, and language. Bulut calls for a critical approach towards voice and language, and a practice of listening with others.

In this essay, the author unpacks memories of the city in the song of Qawwals, observing how in memorializing the past, Delhi emerges in Qawwali not as a location, an identity, or a descriptive category, but always as a space of desire.