What Matters Now?

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.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.www.nochpublishing.comAbout the EditorsDaniela Cascella is a London-based Italian writer. Her research is focused on sound and listening. Her work explores Writing Sound in connection to voicing, memory, archives and the ephemeral, and the interplay between fiction and criticism. She is the author of En abîme: Listening, Reading, Writing. An Archival Fiction (Zer0 Books 2012).Paolo Inverni is an Italian artist based in Turin. He works in a variety of media such as installation, sound, film, video, text and language. He operates by small additions and juxtapositions, on the very border between frames and formats. His art is one of near-invisible actions and ironic, understated comments. It takes shapes within memories, in the space between an event and its reinvention and narration.