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  • Chromaplane: An Electromagnetic Musical Instrument

    Chromaplane: An Electromagnetic Musical Instrument

    I was fortunate to experience a Passepartout Duo live and it’s so beautiful to hear and look at. An electro-acoustic performance in which, along with their custom synths, they interact with a mysterious plate that is manipulated electromagnetically to create…

  • Sonic Faction: Audio Essay as Medium and Method

    Sonic Faction: Audio Essay as Medium and Method

    The other day I was reading Christopher Haworth’s fantastic interview with Robin Mackay, where he talks about the experimental audio essays they used to experiment with back in the CCRU days. Their “sonic faction” developed a truly visionary idea of…

  • Sonic Acts Podcast

    Sonic Acts Podcast

    Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary arts organisation Sonic Acts is uploading new recordings of presentations, performances, lectures, conversations and more. Available on SoundCloud – Spotify – Apple Podcasts

  • A Resonant Ecology

    A Resonant Ecology

    Duke University Press is releasing Max Ritts’ Resonant Ecology book on October 4 this year, as part of the Sign Storage Transmission series edited by Lisa Gitelman and Jonathan Sterne. “In A Resonant Ecology, Max Ritts traces how sound’s integration…

  • SonicLAB PolyNodes, An Advanced 3D Sonic Sculptor with Custom DSP

    SonicLAB PolyNodes, An Advanced 3D Sonic Sculptor with Custom DSP

    We’ve been following Sinan Bokesoy’s work since the first versions of cosmosf. He’s a true genius of digital sound, usually involved in projects that push the boundaries of what’s possible in sound processing, visualization and interaction, plus integrating theory and…

  • Sound Affects: A User’s Guide

    Sound Affects: A User’s Guide

    New book in the Thinking Media series at Bloomsbury. Edited by Sharon Jane Mee and Luke Robinson, “Sound Affects: A User’s Guide” explores both in the ways sound affects and also how affects actually sound. E-Book already available. Paperback available…