Vinyl records are often understood as containers of sound. Fabio Acca proposes the opposite: they are performative devices that produce experiences. Positioning the record within the field of Live Arts, the text explores listening as an embodied practice through which bodies, desires and identities take shape. Drawing on personal memories, performance theory and the history of artist records in Itlay, Acca argues that a record does not merely document an event, but reactivates it. From domestic turntables to experimental sound art, listening emerges as a live act where sound, imagination and presence continuously unfold.

A Manila office worker arrives in Masbate expecting a provincial rodeo. Instead, he enters a world where cattle still organise the rhythms of life, where spectacle and labour blur under the island sun. In this literary fiction, Glenn Diaz moves through cowboy rituals, uneasy conversations and nocturnal pastures to explore what modern urban life has lost contact with, and what still survives at the edge of disappearance.

Ambient music isn’t properly a genre, but a way of listening shaped by the instability of contemporary life. In this conversation, David Toop, a leading figure in the study of contemporary music and sound cultures, and Luigi Monteanni revisit the history of ambient, moving from ritual and free improvisation to algorithmic culture, tracing how sound can reconfigure perception and reopen a relation with the world beyond productivity and digital saturation.