How do musicians fill or widen the gap of feeling at home in a world that is radically unhomely?

  • Juan Jose Lopez (photo: KMS23).
    A Huge Reservoir of Life
    Audio Essay by Philipp Rhensius, Juan José López, Ludwig Berger
    The first form of communication was not language but vibration. Listen to an audio essay featuring the biologist Juan José López and sound artist Ludwig Berger who sonify species that soon threaten to become completely extinct – if we don’t listen.
  • «Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way in a forest, requires some schooling» ‒ Walter Benjamin (photo: pxfuel 2022).
    Like Super Mario Bumping His Head on Obstacles
    Essay by Philipp Rhensius
    A body walks through the city while listening to a DJ mix. The switching between sites is like switching between tracks is like switching between worlds. An essay poem inspired by a mix of the New York-based artist Zarina.
  • Sometimes a distorted image is more real than a clear one (Photo: Pxhere 2016).
    The Silent Mass I Carry Around
    Essay by Philipp Rhensius
    Even at a time of fragmented digital selves, people often align with a single self-description, suppressing their multiplicities. In this essay, the writer and musician Philipp Rhensius attempts to re-sample the embattled term (self-)curation, in search of its supposed emancipatory potential.
  • Collage by Connie Fu, a Seattle-based sound artist, producer, and synthesist, and participant of the «Radio Building» workshop OneBeat residency program in New York, 2021.
    Connect or Divide: The Ambivalence of Radio
    Short Essay by Gisela Swaragita
    As a teenager, our writer experienced a natural disaster, and the only radio nearby united the survivors. Yet, as she learned in «OneBeat»’s Building Radio workshop, radio can also have dividing effects.