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Hyperlocal is an editorial platform exploring the relationship between cultural scenes and their neighbourhoods.
A neighbourhood is the most elementary form of social space, where communities take shape by sharing visions of the city, each fostering recognition codes rooted in specific identities. A scene is the most cohesive expression of these dynamics: an umbrella term for social segments and cultural practices through which values are affirmed, aesthetic and communicative codes are developed, and unconventional lifestyles are experienced.
Hyperlocal operates as a decentralized network, building interdisciplinary and collaborative narratives to explore each scene’s lifestyles and expressive codes, capturing their visions and values, and how they resonate globally from a local perspective.
Hyperlocal is a multilingual, poster-based magazine displayed within the communities it explores. It is also a format of live events—called Clubs—bringing local artists, performers, musicians, filmmakers, and designers to the forefront of their scenes. Additionally, it features a public programme of talks exploring methods of cultural reproduction at a local level, and a festival that documents, connects, and celebrates neighbourhoods and scenes from around the world. by @hyper___local

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Over the past few months, together with @ambientravexp, we’ve delved into the history of ambient house and its contemporary descendant. This research resulted in a series of features, including writings by Hannah Pezzack, F.P. from A.R.X., Vitaly Weber, 377O73-QÂF, and a brilliant David Toop in conversation with Luigi Monteanni, available online and in print in this limited edition publication that we handed out during our event at @triennalemilano on June 14. Get in touch if you’re based in Milan and would like to receive a copy.
@ambientravexp
@ppsychic.nomad
@gamble_mumble
@hanapezzack
@exotica_neurotica
@pixel_aggression
@aria.ruffini
@broshudaofficial
@suonidisorganizzati by @hyper___local

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19 days ago

What’s happening on the ground, right now.
Communities, scenes, and cultural codes shaping what comes next.
Report is Hyperlocal’s new newsletter.
One scene. Every month. No distance, no filter.

Subscribe to our newsletter: link in bio by @hyper___local

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5 months ago

From tracing the lexicon of kitipó and chipeo culture across the Dominican Republic, La Spezia, and Philadelphia to exploring dembow’s rise, @jennifermotaval , ethnomusicologist Wayne Marshall, and musicólogos @blazedrumz and @lacanastahd came together for a conversation on the occasion of Hyperlocal Club Umberto I at @triennalemilano last July.

Listen to the full recording of the conversation via the link in bio. by @hyper___local

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Literary readings have become one of London’s most unexpected forms of nightlife. But why would anyone spend a Friday night in a packed nightclub listening to strangers read from their novels? Will Kaye takes us into London’s literary scene, where aspiring writers, artists, and creative hopefuls gather in clubs, bars, and churches to hear strangers read aloud. Beneath the absurdity of drunken audiences, relentless networking, and the occasional dreadful performance by cultural micro-celebrities, Will looks at the unlikely phenomenon of literature becoming a vehicle for gathering, self-fashioning, and participation in a city increasingly hungry for offline forms of cultural life.

Read the story written by @wil_lkaye at the link in bio. Photos by @amberpollackphotography and @anya.broido by @hyper___local

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10 days ago

One of the most acclaimed voices in contemporary Thai literature, Duanwad Pimwana tells the story of Manop, an ageing man haunted by a love he never confessed. When a vivid dream brings back memories of Chaiyapon, the childhood friend he secretly loved, decades of silence begin to resurface. Moving between adolescence and old age, the story follows a life shaped by desire and compromise, tracing the quiet negotiations through which a kathoey identity was concealed and ultimately reclaimed. At the centre of this journey is the “chong kraben”, a genderless garment that becomes both a memory of first love and a late gesture of self-recognition.

Read “Genderless Red Bottom” written by Duanwad Pimwana and translated by Peera Songkünnatham @peera.narak, at the link in bio.

Photo by @elizabeth.waterman taken in Si Lom by @hyper___local

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16 days ago

After all, who hasn’t perceived at least once in their lifetime the effect of authenticity and tactility that emanates from the concrete, manual, imperfect, and obsolete act of a stylus resting on the grooves of a record? Who hasn’t been struck, even if only for a brief season, by the iconic, totemic power of a sleeve or an artwork?” Drawing on his lifelong love affair with records and record players, at the link in bio, Fabio Acca makes a fascinating case for the record-listening experience as a form of live art.

Read the personal essay written by @fabioacca2o at the link in bio!
Featuring images courtesy of @xing.it by @hyper___local

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25 days ago

A Manila office worker arrives in Masbate expecting a provincial rodeo. Instead, he enters a world where cattle still organise the rhythms of life, where spectacle and labour blur under the island sun. In this literary fiction, Glenn Diaz moves through cowboy rituals, uneasy conversations and nocturnal pastures to explore what modern urban life has lost contact with, and what still survives at the edge of disappearance.

Read the story written by @kasukalan and illustrated by @acivodula at the link in bio. taken in Rodeo Arena, Masbate Grandstand, Masbate City by @hyper___local

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a month ago

From ambient rave’s architectural nature to its atmospheric yet physical legacy and consciousness-expanding qualities, @hanapezzack , @ambientravexp , and @katatonic_silentio talked through the social, sonic, and emotional landscapes of the ambient experience for Hyperlocal Club Brixton at Voce Triennale’s @triennalemilano on June 14. Photos by @________iko________

Listen to the conversation at the link in bio. by @hyper___local

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a month ago

A big thank you to everyone who joined us last Sunday for a new chapter of Hyperlocal Club dedicated to ambient music, from its ‘90s roots in the chill-rooms of Brixton to its contemporary algorithmic iterations in Europe, with a particular focus on the scene’s configuration and its strong political stance. Co-curated with A.R.X. and featuring C3, the club brought together labels, artists, and collectives from the UK, Italy, and the Netherlands for a collective listening experience across the spaces and gardens of Voce Triennale.
Thanks to
@gamble_mumble
@outer____
@inner.lakes
@katatonic_silentio
@_la_serpiente__
@elinatapio
@hanapezzack
@ppsychic.nomad
@uv__ultraviolet @matura_minimoto @lo.sai.lo.sai.lo.sai @_sildam_ @trappi___ @warco_______
Music credits by @connaharaway
Photo & video by @________iko________ by @hyper___local

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Ambient music isn’t properly a genre, but a way of listening shaped by the instability of contemporary life. In this conversation, David Toop, a leading figure in the study of contemporary music and sound cultures, and Luigi Monteanni @exotica_neurotica revisit the history of ambient, moving from ritual and free improvisation to algorithmic culture, tracing how sound can reconfigure perception and reopen a relation with the world beyond productivity and digital saturation.

Photo by Andrej Chudy, Luke Fowler, Marie Roux

Read the full conversation at the link in bio. by @hyper___local

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Moving through his childhood memory, nightclub architecture and metaphysical theories of light, Vitaly Weber reflects on the dancefloor as a space where perception is reorganised. Centred on Milan’s A.R.X. gatherings, the personal essay follows how light and sound cease to merely illuminate bodies. becoming forces that orient attention, and transform collective experience into an almost ritual condition.

Read the personal essay written by @gamble_mumble in link in bio.
Photo by @pixel_aggression , @aria.ruffini e Vitaly Weber by @hyper___local

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2 months ago