UNESCO Chair Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts (RILA)

The UNESCO RILA podcast The sounds of integration, created by our team and guest podcasters, is about integration, about the sounds it makes and about the feelings, thoughts and ripples it causes. In short: an eclectic mix, just like integration itself.

Comforting Sounds (Tawona Sitholé)

The first episode of our new series “The Sounds of the Spring School 2021” is out now. Tawona Sitholé introduces us to 16 sounds collected during his workshop Comforting Sounds, part of the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2021. 

Can you guess the sounds? Spoiler Alert! Here is the list of answers:

• A xoxua (black bird)
• Boiling eggs for breakfast
• Purring cat
• Water running over two bottles of beer in a stream in the Scottish Highlands
• A crackling campfire
• A musical box made by one of the participant’s dad
• A robin
• The daughter of one of the participants going down a slide
• Washing machine
• Cicadas
• A train and some songbirds
• Bees buzzing in the hedgerows near Barnard Castle, England
• Another little stream
• Tawona playing Mbira outside, some birds tweeting
• A kettle and boiling water getting poured into a mug
• An orchestra tuning

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First published: 7 June 2021