Drone music stretches from medieval cathedrals and folk instruments to contemporary experimental sound, carrying a lineage of ritual, dissonance and altered perception. Moving through bagpipes, hurdy-gurdies and modular synthesis, Hannah Pezzack traces drone as both sacred resonance and sonic disruption: a communal form that dissolves authorship, bends time and turns listening into embodied experience.

Before Polish hip-hop had a name, Ursynów was already producing the frequencies that would transform Warsaw’s concrete outskirts into an incubator for a distinctly local urban imagination. In the grey, hollow metropolis of late socialism, post-punk experiments, children’s futurism and proto-rap broadcasts collided inside the tower blocks. Through three critical snapshots, Filip Kalinowski uncovers the underground circuitry that turned urban alienation into the foundations of a new cultural language.

Chengdu’s underground scene unfolds as a fragile, persistent ecology of queer performance and DIY culture, shaped by clubs, closures and informal networks. Through YiHao’s trajectory, interviewed by curator Sara Sassanelli, it appears as a space where myth, memory and experimentation converge, producing temporary communities and practices that drift between exhaustion, care and reinvention.