MIDDLE SOUND #01 // RELEASED

The compilation MIDDLE SOUND #01 will be released on November 28, 2023. Pisitakun Kuantalaeng (music & sound fellow 2023) invited eighteen international musical artists to reinterpret protest songs from their home countries. The online album will feature the resulting tracks along with background information on the original songs and artists involved. 

With contributions by: Abadir (EG), Teya Logos PH), Gabber Modus Operandi (ID), Pisitakun (TH), Wanton Witch (MY), Neo Geodesia (CB), WAQ WAQ KINGDOM (JP), Odete (PT), Ale Hop (PE), Carla Boregas (BR), Ruhail Qaisar (IN), fatalism (GR), Hui Ye (CN), PNIKY HTUT AUNG (MM), HURA (IR), Tanat Teeradakorn (TH) 

Mastered by:
Enyang Urbiks, Urbiks Music GmbH 

website conception & realization: José Fernandes 

supported by DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program 

More info on the compilation and the contributing artists: https://threesound.org/middle-sound 

Project background 

The release is part of Kuantalaeng’s larger project THE THREE SOUND OF REVOLUTION examining the connections and variances between global protest movements where music often plays a central role. 

„The rich backdrop and contexts of protest songs, as well as my own personal involvement in anti- monarchy protests in Thailand over the last decade, has made me interested in protest and revolutionary music. With ‘The Three Sound of Revolution’ I am interested in possible connections and similarities in the sonic elements and meanings of protest songs around the world, from the 1950s until the present day. I aim to explore the possibilities of creating ‘new creative areas’ of protest and revolutionary music among a diversity of races, genders, ethnicities, age groups, communities, and languages which might have shared common ground for protests in the past bit did not necessarily connect back then. Such ‘new creative areas’ might contribute to fresh understanding and connections in modern times, while making different communities and groups aware of the problems of their peers and neighbors and creating spaces of exchange and sharing.” – Pisitakun Kuantalaeng 

More info on the project: https://threesound.org/ 

The live premiere of MIDDLE SOUND will be presented at CTM Festival 2024 – SUSTAIN in collaboration with the Artists-in-Berlin Program – stay tuned!

https://www.ctm-festival.de/