Essay

An excerpt from our audio experiment with Montez Press Radio.

From where it was to where it is.

After Brian Eno.

On perfume and urban utopias

On the prickly aroma of hydrocarbons.

Orange and silver memories. 

And heavenly scents.

Perfume’s digital slouch towards flatness.

Smells like seventh grade.

Decay becomes her.

True freshness in a bottle…

In the rainy breath of time.

What I cherished most about the mall was the baptism of synthetic scents.

On cataloging sound libraries.

On tuning your radar toward the things that you love.

Unraveling an expansive definition of “protective style” that unites BIPOC ways of making

What does it mean to film the natural world through a non-human lens? Is such a thing possible?

On translation, interdependence, and the generosity of Ramadan calendars (Allahu Akram)