Pirate radio stations in post-communist Bucharest functioned as alternative cultural infrastructures, community-building platforms, and mechanisms of legitimation for music excluded from legal FM.
Sounds of desire are not merely cultural artifacts, but potent neurobiological stimuli interacting with profound predictive and affective systems.
Over four decades of communist rule in Romania, Romani professional musicians known as lăutari lived a paradoxical existence.
As it is obviously impossible to stop questioning the sonic implication of the end, we might take a dive right into the limit, right into the membrane of perception.
An exploration into how the adhān (Islamic calls to prayer) operates as a political sound object, emphasizing sound production, spatial dissemination, and socio-political control.
On the stigmatisation of Roma identity, transitional justice and retributive law, with The Virtual Museum of Romani Culture as case study.
Established in 1976 and lasting until 1989, this festival appeared in the immediate aftermath of the Romanian communist regime’s inclusion of nationalistic elements into its official socialist ideology.
Contesting the vitality of a multicultural, multi-ethnic America, this article offers a glimpse into the Mid-Twentieth Century American music.
This article explores the essence of conflict in Gaza—not merely as a struggle over land and geography, but as a deeper battle for the right to be heard, to narrate, and to exist through sound.
This essay examines the idea of the collective and collaboration in relation to, and in resistance against, fascism and populism.
The project investigates sound and the act of listening, through a series of events in Bucharest and online.
Discover our selection of albums and compilations from last month.
Experimental music—the art form that once prided itself on rupture and resistance—now...
An interrogation into how we listen to works that belong to the intangible cultural heritage.
The article proposes a sensory epistemology, where the act of listening becomes a form of witnessing, healing, and reimagining.
A concise exploration of sound as weapon and instrument of control, coercion, and myth-making, from Jericho to Gaza, Beirut and Belgrade.
The project investigates sound and the act of listening, through a series of events in Bucharest and online.
Discover our selection of albums and compilations from last month.