Written contribution for Texture Magazine's Issue #3 which centers around 'the documentation of new ideas, forms, and feelings in sound.' In this issue, sound and noise draw routes into a breadth of themes from pop, love, and performance through to motion and political action. The pieces coalesce around a sense of connection in sound and music. Even if they’re often mediated by glass and metal and silicon, what makes these moments important is the act of connection at the end of the pipe. It’s you, tuning into a protest chant or gazing longingly into someone’s eyes or suddenly re-interpreting the history of something you took for granted.
My piece, 'Thai Pop & Jungle Noise: Deep Listening and Sonic Meditations in Tropical Malady (2004)' is an exploration of Apichatpong's Weerasthakul's use of soundscapes, slowness & queerness in his film. Wherein queerness is captured as a state of drifting, in and out of different realities, modes & dreams.
Published and printed by Physical Interface, May 2026
Edited by Christian Jones
Designed and illustrated by Tommy Brentnall
Tropical Malady (2004)