Soundings
A sounding is both a probe into depth and a thing heard. Texts on music, listening, philosophy and practice.
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Sounding 017 — Remastered Dreams
Jan Van den Broeke: many names, one sound — a voice that hardly sings, a language that arrives a little late, and an archive that opens a box at a time.
31 OCTOBER 2026Sounding 016 — Gloss & Eggshell
Operating Theatre: a Dublin theatre-and-synth duo, a first Fairlight, a voice from the stage — three songs on repeat this week.
23 OCTOBER 2026Sounding 015 — Lucid Dusk
Kuniyuki Takahashi’s Early Tape Works: music for the hour between the day and the dark — soft enough to hold you, awake enough not to let go.
16 OCTOBER 2026Sounding 014 — Autumnal Slumber, 2026
Universal Ambients: a YouTube channel that gives every hour of ambient music a painting and a date, and asks you to go in.
12 OCTOBER 2026Sounding 013 — Pixie Autolysis
Autolysia’s Rainbow Realm (2024): depressive black metal with a sweet tooth — a fairytale walking through the woods with a blade under its tongue.
7 OCTOBER 2026Sounding 012 — Invalid
Die Form’s Die Puppe (1982): a doll with a syringe on the cover, a mainspring where the melodies should be, and one of my favourite upbeat industrial records.
26 SEPTEMBER 2026Sounding 011 — Sorcery
A few nights ago, my work was played on Estonian radio. It was introduced with such care that I wanted to share the host’s words in full.
11 SEPTEMBER 2026Sounding 010 — Jõudu tarvis (Strength is needed)
Nahtrunar’s Wolfsstunde: an Austrian black-metal record that behaves like a single passage through that seam between night and morning.
6 SEPTEMBER 2026Sounding 009 — The Low Red Hour
J.J. Cale: warm, offhand American music, taken up across a single August — late summer beginning its slow combustion into autumn.
29 AUGUST 2026Sounding 008 — The Colour of Tar
For a week I have lived inside three Urfaust songs — a Dutch duo who kept the devil and the light in the same throat — and the feeling still refuses its name.
22 AUGUST 2026Sounding 007 — Leere
Glaring: not one album this time but a whole body of work — the artist I return to most in this corner of music.
15 AUGUST 2026Sounding 006 — A Choir of One
Fursaxa’s Alone in the Dark Wood: an album found around its tenth anniversary, kept on endless repeat — a world that seems to belong to any time.
8 AUGUST 2026Sounding 005 — Industrial Mystic
Damon Edge’s The Surreal Rock and a Titania Moon tape: two obscure records, heard the same week, and what they turn out to share.
2 AUGUST 2026Sounding 004 — The Pond
This Sounding turns inward — to the making rather than the hearing. A new work, only begun, and the strange condition of being the one it comes through.
26 JULY 2026Sounding 003 — Bloodstream Sermon
Dhyana’s Storehouse of Zen Reflections: a whole record, and the thing underneath all of them — duration, and what it asks of the listener.
20 JULY 2026Sounding 002 — An Adjacent Chamber
The second Sounding leaves the single composition behind for a whole mix — a guest set for Fort Evil Fruit’s Vortex of Ironic Calamities on Éist.
13 JULY 2026Sounding 001 — Arvo Pärt: Trivium
Arvo Pärt’s Trivium, and the first of my soundings: now and then, a piece of music undoes something in me, and I want to understand how.
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