Composer Evan Zierk’s accompanying score samples field recordings
whose significance emerges with engaging immediacy in a sustained conversation between the author and her long-term friend and colleague Cary Wolfe
Each one brings distinct philosophical and disciplinary approaches—from ‘spatial’ fields like architecture
Contributions by Kaveh Akbar
Gregor Hens: The City and the World Ryan Gander Composer Evan Zierk’s accompanying scoreFitzcarraldo Editions, 2025, softcover, 312 pages, 12. 7 x 19. 5 cm In The City and the World, Gregor Hens explores the city in the twenty first century a space we shape and are shaped by in turn and our place within it. Travelling from Berlin to Las Vegas, Shenzhen to Santiago de Chile, he moves through these pulsing, ever expanding cityscapes, reading, walking, swimming, riding the metro and catching the bus, bearing witness to the strange vitality