FOCUS presents On Sound - Exploring sonic realms

CLOT Magazine

Our new mixtape steems from recently launched journal-zine FOCUS On Sound, an anthology of scholarly articles and artist responses to the subject of sound. A one-shot issue featuring work by independent artists and articles by researchers and emerging scholars associated with different universities around the world, where each contributor has a double-page, across which they present their focused take on the central topic, sound. The magazine was founded and edited by Nicholas Burman, - a writer, researcher and editor with a background in Comparative Cultural Analysis-, and features articles on topics as diverse as the relationship between sound and modernisation in China, decolonial listening practices, aurality and orality in Latin America and the use of voice recognition technology on the German borders to name a few. Among the multimedia, spreads are a stained glass collage, a memory-based comic, psychogeographic maps of sonic experiences, and a meditative photo/text combination. There are also a few creative writing pieces. The mixtape presented here was a response to the obvious question of whether there would be a sound element for the project and the availability of a bunch unreleased tunes from one of the zine contributors. Tracklist: Opening voice: Isabel Palomar Track 1: gauthiier - Namnètes Voice 1: Daniel Leix Palumbo reading from "Voices And Policies Of Exclusion Within German Asylum Procedures" Voice 2: Luca Penning reading from "Untitled" Voice 3: Daniel Leix Palumbo reading from "Voices And Policies Of Exclusion Within German Asylum Procedures" Track 2: Unknown Artist - turist Voice 4: Robert Baciu reading from "What Social Housing Has To Do With The Production Of Music" Track 3: Phlp. - Черната Скала Voice 5: Seb Harris reading from "The Bleaching of Techno: What White People Must Learn" Track 4: Unknown Artist - turist Voice 6: Luca Penning reading from "Untitled" Track 5: Dou Wei & Yi Yue Dui - 渗透 Voice 7: Cherphile Ciao (Xuefei Cao) reading from "Sound as Community: How Far Are We From Terrene" Track 7: Evitceles - Spring Touch Voice 8: Rick van der Waarden reading "Memo Memento" Closing Voice: Isabel Palomar