• Sonic Terrain’s Bookshelf: +200 Books on Sound

    As researchers, artists, institutions and individuals in general get more interested on sound studies and practices in its plurality of fields and perspectives, it becomes important to find ways of not only inter-connecting our ideas and processes but also to organizing them, to find a place…

  • Sonic Postcards by ‘Architect of Sound’

    Sonic Postcards by ‘Architect of Sound’

    What if when someone gives you a postcard of a certain place, you would be able to also listen to that spacetime spot? Many people is used to take pictures when traveling, in order to crystallize a memory, a feeling, an aesthetic impression, etc, but…

  • message past future

    message past future

    sound installation. 2015 | vintage portable cassette-tape recorders, 3 modified cassette tapes, electronics. “The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.” – Peter Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Pt. 1, Ch. 4. The above message, written in…

  • listening through a small plastic box

    listening through a small plastic box

    sound installation. 2015 | acrylic box, microphones, reclaimed speaker cone, vu meter, electronics, headphones. Using a procedural yet nonsensical amplification chain, a live stream of the gallery soundscape is sent into a clear acrylic box containing electronic amplification components and a single speaker cone. As…

  • music for museums: ryoji ikeda & carsten nicolai (cyclo.)

    music for museums: ryoji ikeda & carsten nicolai (cyclo.)

    Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai at Whitechapel Gallery. part of the vinyl factory‘s music For Museums series.

  • OpenAIR, A Collective Library of Impulse Responses

    OpenAIR, A Collective Library of Impulse Responses

    There are many libraries featuring impulse responses online, both free as the great EchoThief and commercial, such as those impressive recordings Audio Ease has been doing for the Altiverb reverb plugin. But there is something actually beyond all these options, at least in terms of…