NÓSTOS is a concept album, an ode, 

and a simulation. 

The listener is invited into a type of game 

- to live vicariously through dreams, memories,

 and reiteration. 

To live in the past might be ‘anti-progress’ 

but to forget it entirely is inhuman. 

We are, inevitably, constituted by our memories. 

And so, we enact a return to the start 

in search of the end.

 This work aims to produce a sonic 

and theatrical experience

fit to describe, express, provoke, 

and soothe the fractured postpostmodern mind, 

while reflecting on themes of nostalgia.

In creating our emotion radio, 

we rely heavily on personal as 

well as cultural background: 

the soviet and the yankee are 

superimposed into a blurry notion of ‘home’: 

the freedoms

we enjoy, and the transgressions we miss. 

At the same time, global culture has allowed 

for a proliferation of media 

such that certain sonic moments 

transcend their locality, and become almost 

universally iconic. 

In this work we explore cliches 

as sonic references to home.

 Made by Sabine Pendry and Nadia Bakhshi

 Mixed by Arieh Chem

Premiered October 2023


WORMxAMARTE Residencies “Affect”


WORM RADIO, Rotterdam, Netherlands.


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This project was supported by AMARTE