After a legal threat from a pachinko machine manufacturer, Jonáš Gruska’s covert field recordings became something more elusive — a meditation on listening, not documentation.
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After a legal threat from a pachinko machine manufacturer, Jonáš Gruska’s covert field recordings became something more elusive — a meditation on listening, not documentation.
Recorded over half a decade at the Polish-Czech border, Kozmické louky documents a recovering ecosystem through dense field recordings and contributions from Peter Cusack, Lucie Páchová, and others.
Two longform soundscapes on the new album turn field recordings into a tactile record of travel, with one piece moving forward through a Chilean port city and the other unwinding backward across festival dates in Europe.
The sound artist’s new album and installation use custom-built macrophones to capture the low-frequency roars of storms, wildfires, and glaciers, making climate change audible.
The second episode of the female-focused series, curated by Maria Papadomanolaki, arrives with a guest mix that draws from memory, ecology, and Ristić’s forthcoming album.
At 86, the pioneering composer continues her life’s work: revealing the music inherent in the world’s everyday sounds.
In Kinshasa, the collective KINACT forges a new sonic logic from urban wreckage, turning the city’s relentless pressure into a form of ritual transmission.
