Counterlistenings: Sound, Power, Resistance
Issue 22.1 | Fall 2026

Counterlistenings: Sound, Power, Resistance

Guest Edited by María Edurne Zuazu and Gascia Ouzounian

About this Issue
Sandra Moyano Ariza

Introduction
María Edurne Zuazu and Gascia Ouzounian

Part I – Counterlistening Against Empire 

Sounds for Future Memory Work
Rayya Badran

A Dark Meteorology of Sound: Atmospheric Occupation in Beirut
Gascia Ouzounian

Sounds of Dispossession: Hindutva Pop and the Management of the Audible in Kashmir
Uzma Falak

Part II – Counterlistening Against Institutional Violence 

Please Hold: Notes of an Audio Witness
Shana L. Redmond

Policing Sound Tools: Disputing the LRAD, Sonic-Spatial Traps, and Protesters’ Rights
María Edurne Zuazu and Elena L. Cohen

Ultra/Sound: The Antiabortion Weaponization of Sonic Vitalism
Rebecca Lentjes

We, rainbow serpent, slither beyond the quiet zone
Bass memory 0902

Olani Ewunnet

Part III – Fugitive Auditions

“MR3” from Temporary Stored
KMRU

“You Old Sinto, Don’t Forget Me”: Listening to and with a Romani Survivor
Siv B. Lie

Membranas Mixtape – Side A, “Song 1”
Nicole L’Huillier

Image credit: Nicole L’Huillier, La Orejona (XS), 2023. Photo by Juan Necochea.

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