Description
In this short intervention, I will reflect on my experience researching Baidaphon, a company that operated between Beirut, Cairo, Berlin, and beyond, and its scattered archive made of sound, gossip, and transregional circulation. Working with phonograph records produced and sold across the Mediterranean, I often encountered silences: missing documentation, invisible voices, and erased political meanings. Much of Baidaphon’s history was only sporadically recorded, with traces dispersed across places and incomplete records. What remains are scattered songs, fragments, and gaps. I will explore what it means to follow sound instead of paper, and how listening closely to what is missing can open up new ways of thinking about archives, memory, and history.
