Ali and Nico speak about veils, solidarity, the poetry of Faiz Ahmad Faiz and how they met through their common friend Somnath Bhatt. They also play their new song Yakjehti Mein that features the poetry of Faiz. This show was first aired on Palestinian Radio Alhara on May 25 2021, part of the Sonic Liberation Front broadcast.

OP 𓅛 mix 28 -  Yakjehti Mein, a conversation with Ali Sethi & Nicolás Jaar

Tracklist:
All music I've made that you've probably never heard before

End of 22 ID Showcase

Stupor

These Are All My Thoughts

If I Had 12 Minutes (With Birds)

"Soundscapes reveal a lot about how people think and behave." The field recordist and musician talks about listening culture, repatriating African sounds and his new album with The Bug.

Today's conversation moves away from the dance floor, focusing instead on the soft, ambient soundscapes of the Berlin-based musician Joseph Kamaru—AKA KMRU—whose work has been featured at festivals like CTM, Mutek, Atonal, Horst Music and Arts, Dekmantel, and Unsound; concert halls like The Barbican; and major galleries and site-specific installations around the world.

Kamaru moved to Europe from Nairobi, where he first became interested in music production, and field recordings specifically. As a graduate student in the sonic arts, he learned that the majority of the discourse around sound art practices is specific to Western Eurocentric or occidental ways of thinking. He's since embarked on a mission to use field recording as a means of repatriating African identities that are often left out of institutional archives and grapple with the legacy of colonialism.

In this RA Exchange, Kamaru reflects on the sociopolitical angle of his work, and his observation that listening, by its very nature, is never neutral. He also talks about how civilisation and technology has changed our collective listening habits; how sound sources beyond the human hearing range make their way into his work with the use of electromagnetic microphones; and his new album, Disconnect, made with the musician Kevin Richard Martin (AKA The Bug). Listen to the episode in full.

EX.723 KMRU

https://www.nts.live/shows/four-tet/episodes/four-tet-22nd-april-2020

Four Tet 220420

Is there a connection between noise and money?  Which sounds are healing to us as humans, and which are damaging? And what does an abandoned water tank in Colorado have in common with the Taj Mahal or a Gothic cathedral?

These are questions that sound artist and composer Bruce Odland has been pondering for decades. Odland is known for his large-scale, public space sound installations which transform city noise into harmony, realtime. 

Bruce recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to save an abandoned water tank in Colorado. The Tank is considered one of the sonic marvels of the world within a certain circle of composers and sound artists.

Bruce's work attempts to resurrect our buried aural senses. During my interview, you'll hear a number of Bruce's compositions, including a water and snow harp (created and recorded outdoors), music recorded at The Tank in Colorado, and complex musical pieces that transform noisy urban landscapes into deeper experiences.

You can read more at the Gwarlingo website: http://www.gwarlingo.com/?p=13869.

-Michelle Aldredge
www.gwarlingo.com
Gwarlingo ::: Art Resonates


The Gwarlingo Podcast #2 - Sonic Artist Bruce Odland: Money Makes Noise, A Water Tank Creates Art

New single "These Are All My Thoughts" out now.

Debut album 'Palm' is out 8/5/25 via Phantom Limb UK 'Spirituals' imprint.

sohme is the sound-based practice of Saumon Oboudiyat.