First Person

Ideas or essays written from a more personal point of view.

PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS

Roma Agencies Beyond Contemporary Bias

While we progressed towards where we are (the ruins of Modernity), others went somewhere else, all of it happening simultaneously.

Stefan Fraunberger

DECONSTRUCTIONS

The Music of the Other

In today’s globalist existence, the Other is everywhere, everyone is an Other for somebody; this is an attempt to deconstruct the way we, as a society, perceive the Stranger.

Cosmin Mirea

FOCUS ON

Collecting My Heritage(s)

Building a music collection might have implications for the discovery and conservation of a music heritage.

Claudiu Oancea

FOCUS ON

The Shadow of a Leaf in Water

I rely on different modal harmonies from Western and Iranian music and embrace a hybrid of sonorities that can belong to either of the traditions.

Aida Shirazi

LOCKDOWN & ISOLATION

Solidarity in Times of Pandemic

This is the exact moment to start paying attention.

Rabih Beaini

A STORY OF GENTRIFICATION

The Peckham Barber

The story of Andrew, the gracious Cypriot Barber from Peckham, south east London.

Garth Cartwright

LOCKDOWN & ISOLATION

Song For My Father

As things return to “normal”, its likely most of us understand that some things will never be the same.

Garth Cartwright

ESSAY

Home and Music

Mothers know everything, they even invented a language of themselves.

Maria Balabaș

LOCKDOWN & ISOLATION

Attuning Temporality

Hearing is a complex neurological process whereas listening is a selective learnt process, an ongoing tuning in and out, dynamic; mental and physically demanding.

Lara C. Geary

Pricked Up Ears. A Lockdown Listening

LOCKDOWN & ISOLATION

Why am I happy to listen to beauty when I know that my culturally trained ears are just a better tool?

Anamaria Pravicencu

Proudly Disengaged

ESSAY

The days when art was centralized in Europe are long gone if they ever truly existed in any way other than imposed dominance supported by exclusive institutions.

Joe Morris

Fernando Pessoa and The Newfound Existentialism

LOCKDOWN & ISOLATION

Less solace, less certainty, less cures, less normalcy, less identity, less togetherness: the paltry talking-head zoom-conference solo-concert isn’t cutting it.

Andrew Choate