I am very happy to announce my contribution to What Matters Now? (What Can’t You Hear?), the first publication of the newborn e-publishing house NOCH, run by Daniela Cascella and Paolo Inverni.NOCH is a publishing unit focused on expanded listening. NOCH commissions, edits and publishes ebooks. NOCH posits an open approach to the idea of listening – across a variety of forms and modes not restricted to the aural – as they are channelled into text.

What Matters Now? (What Can’t You Hear?) is an anthology of sixteen newly-commissioned texts, ranging from music criticism to short fiction, from visual poetry to art writing, responding to the prompts expressed in the title. Texts by Cheryl Tipp, Chiara Guidi, David Toop, Francesco Tenaglia, Helena Hunter, Ivan Carozzi, James Wilkes, Luciano Chessa, Mike Cooper, Patrick Farmer, Salomé Voegelin, Sandra Jasper, Simone Bertuzzi, Stefano Scalich, Steve Roden, Tone Gellein.

I’ve contributed with a text titled Mexican Firecrackers, which starts from what I’ve experienced last summer in San Juan Chamula, Chiapas.

Click here to buy the ebook, available for various digital formats.

Here are a couple of related postcards – see/listen more materials here.