By pleading for building future oriented sound archives, this paper explores the distinction between hearing as a physiological act and listening as an intentional, interpretive process.
By mixing social meaning with the physical and technical world, Hand to Earth's sound world is a bridge, a sonic crossing, a path to understanding foregrounded by sound.
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 insight into the multifaceted world of sonic dramaturgy, an art form positioned at the confluence of radio art and sonic fiction.
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.
An exploration into the history of the Romanian-Romani ethno-pop music genre manele.
Contesting the vitality of a multicultural, multi-ethnic America, this article offers a glimpse into the Mid-Twentieth Century American music.
The project investigates sound and the act of listening, through a series of events in Bucharest and online.
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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.
This contribution introduces the concept of "thick listening" to better understand the pluriform, relational, and unstable quality of listening in everyday situations.
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.