About the micropolitical qualities of sound as a non-conscious experience of intensity.

  • We talk about being «transported» by music, but we don’t often ask where it takes us. Mayber here? (photo: NASA/ESA 2015).
    The Otherworld of Music
    Short Essay by Fran Pope
    Music that hits you so strong that you stop what you were doing, transporting you to an otherworld. In this essay, our writer ponders this alternative space she finds when listening to specific tracks.
  • Intensities of the listening sensate (image: Upendra Vadadi).
    Listening to a Chimera
    Introduction by Suvani Suri
    An introductory note to the third edition of Norient City Sounds moored in Delhi, India. This collection tunes into a polyphony of voices, songs, sounds, and stories that reimagine and «unconceal» the many worlds and characters constituting the capital’s «sonicities».
  • Collapse (image: Ruhail Qaisar, Upendra Vaddadi).
    Night and Silence
    Sound Piece by Ruhail Qaisar
    Ruhail Qaisar’s experimental composition from New Delhi, India evokes the chaotic magnitude of a city that is forever in the throes of construction, demolition, and frenetic movement, engulfing one in a sensorium of overstimulation.
  • Sumangala Damodaran performing with the Insurrections Ensemble, Serendipity Festival 2018, Goa, India (photo: Serendipity Art Foundation).
    Tracing the Routes Through Which Music Moves
    Interview by Sumangala Damodaran
    Sumangala Damodaran situates Delhi as a site for the unfolding of a radical imaginary through music. She shares her artistic journeys in the city and recent work that traces a thick constellation of connections between Afroasian contemporary musics and migratory movements.