Episodes

  • Podcasting Oral history in the Kitchen

    Podcasting Oral history in the Kitchen
    Jul 19 2024
    In the last episode of this season, Adriana Raczykowski is in conversation with Polish artist and curator Patrycja Rozwora, who founded the Kitchen Conversations Podcast. Patrycja talks about her podcast practice and Eastern European and Central Asian narration in the arts.
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    34 mins
  • Centering Eastern Peripheries

    Centering Eastern Peripheries
    Jun 28 2024
    Mala Herba and dogheadsurigeri from the Oramics collective meet with Adriana Raczykowski to talk about the politics of the dance floor and sonic spaces curation. Guided by the motto “Your periphery is our center”, they address Western hegemony in contemporary electronic subcultures.
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    31 mins
  • From Private to Public: Entering the Polish Drag Scene (in Polish)

    From Private to Public: Entering the Polish Drag Scene (in Polish)
    Jun 14 2024
    In this episode in Polish language, Adriana Raczykowski is in conversation with Lulla La Polaca, who is widely recognised as the oldest Drag Queen of Poland. She traces back her roots as a performer in times of PPR, and talks about musical inspirations, the importance of friendship and community, and her hopes and wishes for younger generations of drag artists in Poland today.
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    26 mins
  • Portraits of Queer Joy

    Portraits of Queer Joy
    May 10 2024
    Season 4 of Sonic Interventions (episodes 14-17) takes listeners to Poland, and is guest-curated by Adriana Raczykowski. She is in conversation with Polish artistists, activists and curators who intervene into society through curation, drag performance, visual arts, and podcasting. This episode features 100Lesb.com, a portrait cycle of one hundred Polish lesbians and non-binary people in Warsaw. Our guest host is in conversation with co-curators Ola Kamińka and Wojtek Zrałek-Kossakowski. They touch upon reclaiming representation and queer resourcefulness as forms of intervention.
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    26 mins
  • From Ethnographic Colonialism to Sound Collages

    From Ethnographic Colonialism to Sound Collages
    Mar 15 2024
    This conversation with Zara Julius concludes our third podcast season dedicated to South African sound art and cultures. The artist shares thoughts on and samples from her exhibition “Whatever You Throw At The Sea” (Weltmuseum Vienna, Austria), and critically reflects on (post)colonial structures in museums and archives in relation to her artistic research.
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    29 mins
  • Song and Gender in Zulu Cultures

    Song and Gender in Zulu Cultures
    Mar 1 2024
    In this episode recorded at the University of Pretoria, Prof. Nompumelelo Zondi, gives insights into her book on women’s song in rural Zulu culture. She presents an understanding of song as a medium of resistance and resilience, and uses her own voice to share examples.
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    33 mins
  • Invoking South African Histories

    Invoking South African Histories
    Feb 15 2024
    This episode features cellist, composer, and scholar Dr. Thokozani Mhlambi, who talks about the role of radio, music traditions as cultural archives, and baroque cello in the context of South Africa. He discusses and shares excerpts of his “Zulu Song Cycle” and the production “Hail to the King” about Dingane kaSenzangakhona.
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    28 mins
  • Contemporary Vibrations of Xhosa Traditions

    Contemporary Vibrations of Xhosa Traditions
    Feb 1 2024
    Our third season centers South African Sound Cultures and is curated by our main host Dr. Layla Zami. In this episode, she is in conversation with multi-instrumentalist and composer Sky Dladla. Dladla speaks of her love for Indigenous Xhosa instruments, the intersection of traditional and contemporary performance culture, and her collaboration with artists such as Zolani Mahola. Recorded at Blueprint Studios in Johannesburg.
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    34 mins