The third episode of this iteration of A Thousand Channels listens to Radio Ceylon’s resonance at times of war and nation-building with Isabel Huacuja Alonso; the multiversal adversities of the Indus river and Makran coast guided by Zahra Malkani; and the cosmologies of the South African free jazz scene via Siyabonga Mthembu. Rare Japanese-language broadcasting in Sri Lanka is refigured in a collaborative work initiated by Yoshinori Niwa, while Kani Kamil sounds out an invisible archive of southern Kurdish womens’ testimonies. Finally, Palestine’s Radio alHara offer a special mixdown of their 2021 transmission series, Sonic Liberation Front. Click on ‘audio notes’ on each piece for more background information, translations and tracklists. Desktop listening with headphones advised!

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A project by Syma Tariq

Sound design: Francesca Savoldi

Collaborators: Natasha Ginwala, Anushka Rajendran

Supported by the British Council Sri Lanka and EUNIC

​Syma Tariq's research is supported by TECHNE AHRC UK