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 […]
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 […]
( ) // Signal: Begin with a scene of a faded colonial signal —road sign, farm fence, fuzzy radio broadcast, oxidised inscription. How does this signal connect you to the past? What phantom dispatches does it relay —impossible testimony—what orders make flesh reverb // are they written? Exhumation in brown // red: Imagine the process […]
CIRCULAR / LINEAR / TIME In Te Ao Māori, time is cyclical: both the beginning and end are part of the same phenomenon. The past, present and future are experienced simultaneously. The whakatauki (proverb)‘Ka mua, ka muri’ is the idea that we walk backwards into the future. It tells us that we must look to […]
We would like to acknowledge the sovereign Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live as uninvited guests, in the suburb now known as Coburg – the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation in Naarm. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation, who are the Custodians of […]
On 11 December 2023, a group of artists and activists took another step in their ongoing protest at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. The group, called Te Waka Hourua, used power tools and spray paint to alter the text of an English display panel in the museum’s Te […]
Hasib Hourani and Jeanine Hourani in conversation across April – June 2024 HH: What is archive to you? What is something you’ve been doing lately that feels like a process of archiving? JH: I’ve been thinking a lot about the process of archiving recently actually. I’ve been thinking about it within a broader framework of […]
In my childhood home, we had a living room that we used only for when guests visited. It was the untouched section of the house and featured a Persian-style carpet, cream leather couches, a coffee table covered with a small crochet doily, a dining table with a plastic table protector and four mahogany wall units. […]
I don’t live as an artist. Destiny Deacon, 2018 multi-dimensional magick K’ua K’ua Erub/Mer woman funny sharp strong communal history politics radio performance photography video installation Thanks, Sis, for dropping the ‘c’ for us urban Blaks You gave us way to break […]
Like all Indigenous people, I believe unequivocally, that my lands are the most beautiful lands in the world. My Country, Larrakia Country, is so abundant with life and beauty, gifting us astounding moments daily. Gangly legs and knobbly knees, I’m a child standing in our backyard and watching the sky light up with radiant pink […]
Underneath the water, leaves and coins, I suspect there might be more bluestone, sitting on top of a large bed of soil of Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country. I chose to photograph this place as a way to anchor this piece, following an exercise my friend Tim Humphries shared with me earlier this year. Then he […]
The women have always danced until their skin gives out. Barefoot, my aunties lay their heels down for the final song. Their shoes rest under the table with the unclaimed tights someone has taken off. Its flesh belongs to another body of overtax and overburden and oversweat. My cousin will pick it up at the […]