Anatomy of a Lost Sound traces the life of an incendiary sound the space it conjured – a paramilitary youth camp, one of many metastasizing across Central and Eastern Europe – and the enigmatic figure most indelibly marked by it, Zulfikar Veritić.

The Sephardim of Z. Veritić’s family arrived in the Balkans under the aegis of Sultan Bayezid II, only to face persecution centuries later under the fascist regimes of the 1940s, some of whose survivors, in turn, became complicit in the expulsion of Bosnian Muslims – Veritić’s paternal side – during the Bosnian War.

This hybrid work offers a brief biography of the sound and the figures who fueled its ascent and spread.