As I sit to write this, US-backed Israel has officially resumed its genocidal campaign against Gaza, and continues its violations across greater Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. At the time of writing, Creative Australia has revoked Lebanese artist Khaled Sabsabi’s nomination to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2026 and Monash University has indefinitely postponed […]

When I first started writing music in Mandarin and Hokkien, I didn’t think that I was one day going to write about ‘tonal meltings’ or the affect of listening to music similar to mine — indie-folk tunes and ballads supported by the mantra-like repetition of acoustic guitar motifs, with tenderness and plainness in the lyricism. […]

Every summer, time slipped by in a haze. As the season evaporated under the sun’s dry gaze, quick like tears on midday pavement, the afternoon hours would grow deep and long. At summer’s end we would mourn its swiftness but during it we were routinely fatigued by its painful luminosity. On summer afternoons I would […]

Polyphony for Intertidal Ecologies was a participatory workshop and performance event at Monmar (Point Nepean) that took place on 8 February 2025. Participants included: Vāimanatu Avene, Elijah Cristiano, Anna Farago, Frosty, Audax M. Gawler, Bridget Hillebrand, Jivan Simons Mistry, Georgia Nowak, Rosa Mar Tato Ortega, Justine Walsh, Dominic White and Christabel Wigley. We are walking across the […]

For the following conversation, we met each other outside our studios. We talked; we are friends and enjoy talking art and Blackfella shit.  Nicholas (NC): Could we transcribe something ‘cause the brief for the magazine was about sound? You’ve (Daisy) done sound and music for a long time. I also done music. Daisy (D): This […]

On the occasion of Andrea Illés’ performance, no rock, no flower (West Space, 6 September – 25 October 2025), her collaborator Tom Denize reflects on the ungraspable nature of Illés’ work. Illés is a performance artist whose work has been featured at SOFT CENTRE, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery (NZ), Visual Diary, and more. Her […]

In 1975 at the University of California San Diego, an ensemble of white American performance artists led a sonic meditation bearing resemblance to Indigenous ceremonial traditions. Embedded in the performance were Native American and Australian Aboriginal acoustic cues, Eastern spiritual motifs and Lakota perspectives that had been compressed into a mono-cultural pallet for Western listeners.[1] […]

What does it mean to speed up? Does it mean to surrender to a rhythm so fast and unstable that it fractures the body’s relationship to its own movement and sense of time? Singeli is a hyperkinetic electronic music genre that emerged in the 2000s from within the rapid urbanisation of post-colonial Tanzania. Known for […]

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Nadeem: Ancestors and oceans It always starts with the ocean — moana, solwara, vast blue expanse; unifying link — the Great Ocean. A constellation of lands, seas and peoples that have long known Indigenous being, thinking, and relating through sound, story and collectivity. Before colonial and evangelical interference, sound had been a paramount and persistent […]

Amanda Gutiérrez’s radiophonic soundwalk Resilience, midnight steps and the moon as guide from A to Z was a commission for Radio Insomnia, presented with members of Brujas and Tribu Collectives. Brujas now operates as RedArtFEM (Red de Mujeres Artistas y Feminista). The initiative aims to act as a social resource for artists as a response […]

Dual Tongues spans two voices, a friendship, four years, two continents, WhatsApp chats, smoke breaks, long train rides, and the moments that feel meaningful in the spaces between disciplined and discursive contexts. This cross-border dialogue moves through alignments, associations and clashes that appear in our practice of mixing music frequently heard in ritual cultures. This […]

Almost every time I play a vinyl record, I think about the other copies of it that exist in the world and if anyone else might be playing one of them at the same time.  A lattice of coincidence  A lot of people don’t realise what’s really going on. They view life as a bunch […]

I first became acquainted with Jared Xu’s work when I was in Taipei in 2023. At the time, I was learning about the early history of Taiwanese noise music that began to garner a small but loyal following in the years after the country’s thirty-eight year martial law was lifted in 1987. The first wave […]

Please see the online version of this article to play a sound file while reading this piece. As a Tangata Tiriti-Pākehā sound artist now living on Wurundjeri Country, this writing — much like my practice — deviates, trespasses and wanders off. Growing up as a sixth generation beneficial-coloniser from a farming family in lower Te […]

This transcript is taken from two interviews conducted in June 2025 at Yusi Zang’s Gertrude Contemporary studio in Preston South. Born in Beijing, Zang moved to Naarm / Melbourne in 2014 to study Fine Arts at Monash University, and has since solidified a practice across painting and sculpture, exhibiting at an impressive schedule in artist-run, […]

Of Stadiums and Construction Sites (Ne change rien pour que tout soit différent)21 June – 10 August 2025Gertrude Contemporary The videos that A Constructed World (Jacqueline Riva, Geoff Lowe, et al.) made in the mid-00s are considerably more pared down than their earlier and their later ones. There is no speech. The Melbourne-born, Paris-based artist […]

There’s a certain kind of art that insists too much on being art — polished, declared, and coded for legibility. Then there’s Lilly Skipper. Her work operates at a frequency too low for immediate classification, too dry for spectacle, and too structurally odd to be comfortably consumed. And yet, it lingers — not because it […]

The English artist Ti Parks spent almost exactly a decade in Naarm / Melbourne. Arriving in 1964, after a stint in art school he was featured in the Young Contemporaries exhibitions of Swinging London, where generations of bright Brits cut their teeth (the 1963 iteration included both Parks and a young chap called David Hockney). […]

For the 2025 RISING Festival un Talks placed Kampire, a vibrant bass-heavy DJ and core member of Nyege Nyege Collective in conversation with Samira Farah, curator, producer and host of The Score on RRR. This talk coincided with the publication of un Magazine’s issue 19.1, Resonant Imaginaries and sound clashes guest edited by Lucreccia Quintanilla, bringing […]

On May 3 (2025) un Projects had the Nipaluna launch of un Magazine 18.3 Sabaar and Other Counter Archives ed. Nadia Refaei and 18.4 Good Grief ed. Olivia Koh at the Hobart Town Hall Pavilion. un celebrated the launch with talks from Olivia Koh and Nadia Refaei, and readings from Grace Gamage, Caine Chennatt, Feras […]

un Projects held the Naarm launch of un Magazine 18.3 Sabaar and Other Counter Archives ed. Nadia Refaei and 18.4 good grief ed. Olivia Koh at the Bargoonga Nganjin Fitzroy North Library on April 17, 2025. un celebrated the launch with a roundtable from contributors Anna Emina, Zainab Hikmet, Jacqui Shelton, Lana Nguyen, Benjamin Bannan, […]

Something like a laboratory, Hugo Blomley has litres of chemicals stacked in the corner of his studio. Two separate workbenches are covered with drills and hardware, screws and nails, discarded moulds, half-opened adhesives tubes and mislabelled plastic bottles. Another bench wraps around the perimeter of the space littered with scales, epoxy, bottles of acetone, a […]

to carry songs: a diary        and thoughts              about language                    in fragments  : reflections from March Meeting 2025: Sharjah Biennial 16  1. Between 4 February and 10 March 2025, I went to Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab […]