Ecoes #7

What does it mean to listen – not just to hear, but to attentively attune to the world around us? Building on Sonic Acts’ 30-year legacy, the seventh edition of Ecoes – a special, double issue – delves into the art of sound and presence. From Salomé Voegelin’s remixing of the ‘curatorial order’ to maximalist composer Charlemagne Palestine and Loma Doom’s cerebral DJ sets, this magazine reimagines listening as a form of attention – at once a method, an ethics, and a poetics.

A continuation of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 project Touched by Sound, Sève I.V. Janssen excavates the media archive of Dutch performer and instrument maker Michel Waisvisz. Meanwhile, Elias Anastas of Radio alHara discusses the Palestine-based station’s efforts to sustain (inter)national solidarity amidst escalating Israeli violence. In their collaboratively written article, Shortwave Collective proposes another (radio) listening exercise, asking: ‘Do we listen to the same things, differently?’