Khabat Abas of Kurdistan-Iraq talking about cellos, bombshells, silenced stories of women
Making instruments, making music overlaps directly with the issue of mapping sound to emotional experience, meaning, and orientation. Let's listen...
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Open call: Ukraine Resistance Radio, amplifying experimental sounds and music of Ukraine
Ukraine Resistance Radio is a new project for amplifying experimental sounds and music of Ukrainian artists and their allies. An...
As crisis continues, albums bring Turkey and Syria earthquake relief
The scale of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria is hard to conceive, atop ongoing crises in the region...
Music or weapon: artists inside and outside Ukraine reflect on creativity in times of war
As our Ukrainian friends and family have endured a year of full-scale war, here are some of their voices. For...
A benefit in Berlin and online, with Syrian, Turkish, Kurdish, and Palestinian artists; more events
Come in person to Berlin or tune in online from anywhere all day and evening Sunday, as Refuge Worldwide joins...
Here’s how to help after the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, and how music is responding
Unthinkable devastation has been unleashed on southeastern Turkey and neighboring parts of northern Syria, with a still-increasing death tool in...
USA set to more than double fees for artists in visa rate hike – but there’s a chance to act
The United States' underfunded, understaffed immigration program is looking to make up operating deficits by charging more for already-expensive visas....
Connecting MLK’s death to Hip Hop, and reading on Black identity and sound
Today as the United States celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is another opportunity worldwide to reflect on Black identity...
At Black-led Willie Mae camp, music tech exploration starts at age 5 – interview
Black-led, female-led, New York-based Willie Mae Rock Camp is providing inspiration to female and gender nonbinary musicians. Executive director LaFrae...
Don’t miss the haunting Standard Deviation compilation from Kyiv – and keep the power on
The situation in Ukraine grows literally darker, colder, and more urgent even as the world might want to move on....
