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At the heart of Mort Garson’s imagination
Mort Garson, a genius composer with innovative creativity, is one of the founders of experimental electronic music. Far from the spotlight during his time, he is now considered one of the founders of electronic music as we know it today. Between odes to nature, songs for green plants and experimental compositions, this Canadian musician never…
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Tiny, tiny world
When growing up, my world was big My village with one thousand inhabitants was my world Once a month we went to the next townIt was hugeMy world was huge New school, new worlds openedPeople from other continents But actually imagining these, seemed impossibleMy world became smaller, but my imagination could not create a larger…
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When Touching Grass is Necessary
In this article we’ll explore the problem with parasocial relationships. The Cambridge Dictionary defines parasocial as “involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc., or an artificial intelligence”. Some of you may feel weirded out…
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Mercy Mercy Me – 50 Years of Asking What’s Going On
This 1971 record by Marvin Gaye has been adored by many, including my father, who raised me with these tracks playing in the background. He always said this was the greatest album ever made, and honestly, I couldn’t disagree. When I finally bought the vinyl myself in Ljubljana, in the cold winter of 2025, I…
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Green Embrace
Was there something more to this afternoonthan to be held by the grass on the riverside? Ask me what I see,and I will answer by making space for you beside meso you can watch the branches reaching for our dreams. Ask me how my chest feels,and I will tell you about the dance of dandelions…
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The impact of feminism on social relationships nowadays
The growth of feminism in the world has clearly brought about significant changes in the law, as well as in human relationships too, as expected. For what it’s worth, realistically speaking, I agree that feminism may have a negative impact, even though, in my estimation, feminism is generally completely misperceived, and it shouldn’t be seen…
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Who Turns the World?
The world today doesn’t spin on its own. Its axis is not just planetary rotation – it is youth, ideas, and the constant thirst for knowledge. In a time when the digital has become real, and the real increasingly depends on the digital, the question “Who turns the world?” becomes a call to look in…
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Learning to love the Absurd
There are days when I wake up and everything feels heavy for no reason. The air, the noise, the thoughts. It feels like I am walking through a loop: repeating, trying, failing, repeating again. In those moments, I think of Sisyphus. The man cursed to push his stone up the mountain forever, only to watch…
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VOICES November 2025
Hello and welcome to the November edition of VOICES, This month, we sadly say goodbye to two long-term volunteers at VCS.I’m Cassandre, also a long-termer, and watching volunteers leave is always bittersweet, especially Terry and Chloe, the last ones from when I first arrived.In this editorial, they share their final thoughts and reflections, offering us…
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Why you shouldn’t buy an electric car
Rising pollution, dwindling fossil fuels, and higher vehicle costs. When you look at it from this perspective, electric cars seem like a logical choice but if we examine it deeply, we see that it is not actually like that. Cost of electricity Although electricity is often perceived as a clean and sustainable source of energy,…
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This body is a spacious house
There is room for joy –sometimes a living room, spiraled and alive with houseplants,sometimes a garden with an empty bench. There is room for grief –sometimes in a basement,sometimes on a chair by the window. There is room for anger –sometimes in a closet under the stairs,sometimes at a kitchen table. There is room for…
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