The COOP approaches sound not as a technical discipline, but as a conceptual practice that traverses storytelling, music, and memory. In collaboration with Radio Alhara, outlets are shared not as ‘complete’ productions, but as fragments, readymade materials, and reflections, extending the COOP’s conversations into wider communities. Radio as a platform also opens sound as a commons: a way of listening collectively across distances.

Seasides, Wings and Micrófonos emerges from the workshop Politics of Sound, Time, and Space with artist and researcher Dirar Kalash; departing from sound as a time/space of struggle rather than a technical medium. The study group turned to the politics of time, approaching history not as a linear sequence but as something lived from within. The workshop insisted on situated experience, asking how practices of resistance are produced by fragmentation, interruption, and return. In listening sessions proposed by Dirar Kalash — starting from a physical perspective on frequencies, rhythms in space and moving toward how we listen against oppressive forms of knowledge production — listening itself became a critical practice where sound holds memory, rehearses resistance, and imagines forms of presence that persist despite erasure.

This episode is a collaboration between Shiva Yourdkhani, Aimée Phillips and Javier R. Perez-Curiel in collaboration with Radio Alhara.