Since the full-scale invasion, music-making in Ukraine has adapted in remarkable ways: composing on mobile phones, streaming performances from bomb shelters, and organising festivals within curfew limits. Clubs became centres of volunteering and fundraising before regaining their cultural role once reopened. Meanwhile, the diaspora reshaped the musical landscape, severing old ties while creating new global networks of collaboration.
Ukrainian Field Notes: Sound, Music & Voices From Ukraine After the Full-Scale Invasion offers a 360-degree perspective on how sound has shaped musicians’ wartime lives and influenced evolving notions of identity – personal, collective, and postcolonial.
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Gianmarco Del Re
Since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Gianmarco Del Re has conducted a series of interviews with Ukrainian artists for the experimental music blog A Closer Listen, as well as hosting a monthly podcast on Resonance FM.
A keen sonic explorer, he has produced a documentary on the experimental music scene in Bratislava (The Sound and Fury – Cadillac Face and the Noize Konspiracy), as well as short
films on the outsider artist Adam Bohman and the psychedelic folk musician Simon Finn.
He has published a monograph on Derek Jarman, worked at The Guardian, and contributed to several publications, including Flash Art International, Gay Times, and the Brixton Review of Books.