Within the European imaginary Romani people have served as an “Ontological Other,” in post-Enlightenment thought (Wynter 1987). Against a backdrop of centuries of racialization this talk asks: How might sound and music help to augment a Romani subjectivity that is informed by this racialized abjection. How might sound recuperate subjectivities stifled through the dehumanization of racialization? By reframing the exclusionary processes of Othering as a way of being and sounding “Otherwise”—beyond the negative interpellations and subjectification—this talk engages Roma music and sound as a space to perform repair from the alienation racialization begets