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 

TRACKLIST :

1.I 04:26

2. II 02:58

3. III 05:14

4. IV 02:19

5. V 05:09

6. VI 09:21

7. VII 03:46

8. VIII 09:53