Out nowIssue 14The Noise Issue212 pagesNo adsPrinted in GlasgowTwelve storiesTurn it upOut nowIssue 14The Noise Issue212 pagesNo adsPrinted in GlasgowTwelve storiesTurn it up
Out nowIssue 14The Noise Issue212 pagesNo adsPrinted in GlasgowTwelve storiesTurn it upOut nowIssue 14The Noise Issue212 pagesNo adsPrinted in GlasgowTwelve storiesTurn it up
Out nowIssue 14The Noise Issue212 pagesNo adsPrinted in GlasgowTwelve storiesTurn it upOut nowIssue 14The Noise Issue212 pagesNo adsPrinted in GlasgowTwelve storiesTurn it up
In this issue
Six of the twelve stories in print. Hover a line to hear it louder.
p. 014Turn it downThe architects designing cities you can hear yourself think in.
p. 028Tape cultureWhy a generation raised on streaming is buying cassettes again.
p. 046Everybody shoutsOur lead feature: attention, volume and the art of being heard.
p. 072Front rowEleven nights in eleven rooms with the loudest bands in Europe.
p. 098Long waveA collector and the four hundred radios that fill her house.
p. 121Signal towerPhotographs from the masts that carry everything we say.
Volume is cheap. Attention is the rarest thing we make.
Kofi Asante, p. 052
Lead feature — p. 046
Everybody is shouting. Who is still listening?
The loudest decade in history began quietly, with a notification sound nobody chose. Since then the average city has grown four decibels louder, the average feed forty times busier and the average listener a great deal more tired. We spent a year with the people pushing back — sound designers who remove noise for a living, librarians defending the last silent rooms, a radio station that broadcasts nothing but birdsong at 4am — to find out what it takes to be heard now, and whether the answer is simply to speak more softly.
Photograph: Rosa Lindgren
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12Stories
0Adverts
40Stockists
Contributors
The people who made this issue
Ines Carvalho
Editor
Founded KIOSK on a kitchen table in 2019. Still answers every letter.
Theo Mbeki
Art director
Believes every page deserves one thing that is too big.
Rosa Lindgren
Photographer
Shot this issue’s cover on a single roll in one afternoon.
Kofi Asante
Writer
Spent a year recording the quietest places left in London.
Mara Quint
Illustrator
Draws with a photocopier, a scalpel and no undo button.
Juno Park
Type designer
Drew the masthead. Adjusts it by hand every issue.
