What are the sounds of Guantánamo Bay Detention Center? In 2015, poet Jordan Scott set out to record the ambient sounds of the prison as a means of bypassing its strict media censorship rules. Today, former detainee, Mansoor Adayfi, recalls how sound shaped his experiences there— both of torture and of hope. More than 20 years after men were first detained, Scott’s field recordings and Adayfi’s memories come together to create a visceral new landscape of this notoriously secret place.
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