Sounds Like is a new audio series from Infrasonica.
We invited three artists from our network of collaborators to respond with a sound piece to our three editorial lines to date: Sonic Realism, Audible Matter, and Voicing Abstraction.

Julian Abraham, who also goes by 'Togar', responded to Infrasonica’s second editorial line, Audible Matter with three sound pieces under the collective title Malapetaka.
Malapetaka is a Malay word that translates to calamity, misfortune, or disaster. It can be human or planetary, personal or general but it always signifies destruction. Hearing that title and its definition, one would expect to find a series of grave, severe sounds culminating in a reflection of the word’s meaning. Instead, we’re left with an intensely evocative set of rhythms, chimes, and chants that coalesce into something otherworldly and entirely human.

In the last set of episodes Sounds Like, Julian is joined by Infrasonica’s Editor in Chief, Pablo José Ramírez in diving into the experience of sound and community in Yogyakarta, leading to the understanding of the concept of Malapetaka.

→ Listen to Sounds Like | Julian Abraham ‘Togar’ | Episode 7