• 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 theory, not only because…

  • 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

  • Call for Audio Papers: Sound and the More-Than-Human Worlds @ Seismograf

    Call for Audio Papers: Sound and the More-Than-Human Worlds @ Seismograf

    Seismograf Peer is doing an open call for audio papers around the topic of “Sound and the More-Than-Human Worlds”: “As such, we intend a wide range of interpretations as to what the more-than-human is, not limiting the definition to other animals, but embracing all kinds…

  • 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 into the environmental politics of…

  • 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 speculation in a fascinating practical,…

  • 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 25 Jul 2024. “Sound Affects:…