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41/2021
X - Tradycja
In #41 we look at tradition. Tradition - but not peasantish, nostalgic turns, yet folklore unveiled and dissected. How it was, how it is, how it will be.
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I love freedom and I know why. A conversation with Katarina Gryvul
Marta Konieczna: I’ve been thinking a lot about how to start our interview. Besides many questions one topic still seems the […]
Во время войны ты весь превращаешься в слух
Двадцать второго июня Ровно в четыре часа Киев бомбили. Нам объявили, Что началася война. Эти строки в Советском союзе знали […]
Hope in the Sound. A conversation with Annea Lockwood
Piotr Tkacz: A trip to Berlin for The Sound of Distance was my first trip abroad since February 2020. I live in […]
Break the Silence
"Sugar, Spice & All Things Nice" is a piece about sexism; about sexual harassment, comments between the lines, and offensive jokes based on gender stereotypes. The piece contains stories from people I know personally; it is a collective story, as most of these situations could have happened to any of us. The statements I collected have remained almost completely unchanged. In my music, I prefer a multiplicity of meanings and interweaving of themes, but in this case, the directness of the message was important.
From the Lone Composer to the Dynamics of Motion. Pan-African Insights through an Encounter in Zimbabwe
Since the mid-1990s, I have spent significant time in various regions of Africa working on collaborative creative projects with musicians, performing, […]
Connection in Digital Participation. The World Wide Tunning Meditation and Heart Chant
INTRO Every Saturday from March 28-April 25, 2020, Music on the Reboundin partnership with the International Contemporary Ensemble, produced The […]
Intimate Encounters Within the Ear: Microphone-touching and the Gender Politics of ASMR
Tap-tap-tap… is this thing on? Though most people don’t realise it, the sound that touching a microphone produces has a highly particular […]
Femmes in Sonology: Lucie Nezri
Lucie Nezri is a french experimental composer, performer and DJ based in the Netherlands. She currently studies at the Institute of […]
One eye is good enough! Diseases in George Maciunas’ work
“I am still in the hospital, drinking kilograms of pills, being perforated with needles, surrounded by gas masks, dials, valves […]
Femmes in Sonology: Hilde Wollenstein
Hilde Wollenstein is an electronic music composer, improviser, and sound artist from the Netherlands, currently studying at the Institute of […]