Born and raised in Karachi

a revelatory exploration of an unexamined but thriving aesthetic practice

– Emanuele Quinz

reaching into the long light before drifting into decline

author of The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing

Ale Borea - Onda Corta - Tape Südwest Verlag Born and raised in KarachiOnda Corta is a long duration sound collage composed from fragments of short wave radio recordings, sourced from The Conet Project and various online archives. It emphasizes the phantasmagoric and omnipresent qualities of recorded and transmitted sound. Rather than presenting a sound object frozen in time (a historical fragment that exists only when tuned in by a listener) the work explores the sound of these signals as an anonymous, unfolding