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  • Norient City Sounds: Bogotá

    Norient City Sounds: Bogotá

    Norient has released a new “City Sounds” special, this time dedicated to Bogotá, Colombia. Curated by writer and cultural manager Luisa Fernanda Uribe and developed by a wide collective effort, the wonderful special goes into Bogotá’s layers, spirits, diversity, all…

  • Sounding Women’s Work

    Sounding Women’s Work

    Over this year, Seismograf Magazine has published two special issues entirely dedicated to women in sound, called “Focus Sounding Women’s Work”, in which they aim “to put sound to the professional minority of artists who identify as women, […] to…

  • The sonic possibility of written matter: Tomás Cabado, Sergio Merce and Catriel Nievas

    The sonic possibility of written matter: Tomás Cabado, Sergio Merce and Catriel Nievas

    When I first heard Especies de Basilea by Tomás Cabado, Sergio Merce and Catriel Nievas -composed by Cabado- , I felt immersed in an enclosed space in which the stream of sounds that it projects, brought warmth and comfort to…

  • The Adventures of Unblocked Ears #6: Subsumption

    The Adventures of Unblocked Ears #6: Subsumption

      This is a new track from London based ambient artist Bauer. Lately, Bauer has been exploring nostalgia and isolation in his work. Subsumption veers towards the second theme, sketching an imagined geographical representation of something felt. To delve deeper, visit…

  • Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture

    Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture

    Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture, book by Joe Muggs & Brian David Stevens, published at Strange Attractor. An oral history of the UK’s soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay…

  • Gathering Silence

    Gathering Silence

    Microphone in hand, I sit inside the old church, Gathering silence. – Haiku written by Ian Joyce The album Gathering Silence by Neil Stringfellow aka Audio Obscura is a beautiful example of the work of London-based label Naviar records: Connecting…