Earth Sounds Now is a collective made up of community activist and musician Stefan Christoff, drummer, composer, scholar, and bandleader Asher Gamedze, music producer Nicolás Jaar, pianist and composer Büşra Kayıkçı, and novelist, poet, and sound performer Kaie Kellough.
Over 13 months, they met online to share sounds, readings, writings, and drawings, resulting in Convergence—a project reflecting their collaborative process. Each member submitted different works, including paintings, poetry, field recordings, and musical experiments, taking turns responding to each other's contributions.
Member Stefan Christoff highlights the importance of listening in these sessions:
"Sometimes we would listen all together, so there was also silence on the online call as we all listened on headphones to the sounds from our respective places. I am underlining listening here, which the world needs much more of."
These submissions were organized into a sound library and finally mixed into record format by Jaar, capturing the essence of their exchanges across global soundscapes.
"Listeners, of course, bring their own experiences and interpretations to their hearing (that’s why the pictures are always better on radio). Is that the whirr of a sewing machine, or the enhanced crackle of broadcast static, or the stretched-out clicks of machine-gun fire? Poet Kellough puts it best, in lines that appear on the opening track and reappear on the last: the music enacts “how a colour and all of its related shades can be a sound.”
– Gwen Ansell, sisgwenjazz
"A canvas of wild imagination. Ideas that are completely open-sourced, and the more one spends in the company Convergence, the more one realises that it’s the embodiment of experimentalism."
– Simon Kirk, Sun 13
credits
released July 18, 2025
Recorded January 2023 - July 2023
Mixed by Nicolás Jaar 2023-2024
Editing by Stefan Christoff 2024
Mastering by Ryan Morey
Artwork by Büşra Kayıkçı
Design by Maziyar Pahlevan
Project management by Nicolina Claeson
This project received support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Thank you to Brodie Conley for administrative support.
Todo arde y no puedo sacar de mi esta imagén.
Gracias Nico, tu abrazo afuera de tu concierto en ensenada se sintió como este mismo album abrazó a mi corazón que no sabe que hacer con tantas emociones de lo que está pasando. Mucho que dejarse sentir, mucho que llorar, mucho que bailar y mucho que cambiar. Gracias por recordar mirandahelenam
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the floodwaters lower, the tower falls, the ground shatters, the sand shifts, the great soul of the earth rises through the cracks in the dust. the silken veils drape themselves upon the deserts, floating down from the sky. walls of stone emblazoned with golden symbols. the sun is rising over a new land.
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