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  • Field by Martin Messier, Sound Performance Based on Residual Electromagnetic Signals

    Field by Martin Messier, Sound Performance Based on Residual Electromagnetic Signals

    FIELD is a new work by Canadian artist Martin Messier, previously known for his intricate audiovisual machines, unique installations and intense performances. This new work is based on the idea of creating sounds out from residual electric signals, using electromagnetic transducer microphones to pick up…

  • The Importance of Sound in Architecture

    The Importance of Sound in Architecture

    The New York Times has published a very interesting article around sound and architecture, featuring some wonderful exercises in audio and video. We talk about how cities and buildings look. We call places landmarks or eyesores. But we rarely talk…

  • Ground Quarterly – Sound

    Ground Quarterly – Sound

    Issue 30 of Ground Quartely, a magazine by OALA (Ontario Association of Landscape Architects) is dedicated to sound. Here’s the outline: Up Front Information on the Ground Sound:  Subway Station Soundscape Animal control through acoustics TEXT BY CLAIRE NELISCHER Round…

  • New STR Release by Luís Antero

    We’re very happy to announce a new release at STR, featuring the amazing work of portugal-based artist Luís Antero. >>> LISTEN

  • field: atom(s) entropy

    field: atom(s) entropy

    “Field: Atom(s) Entropy” documents the inter-relationship between sound, vector graphics and colors in various forms: installations, CD releases and print editions. A quantum system and microscopic field that consist of many independent micro-components having distinctive properties and short life span.…

  • Sound Studies: A Discipline?

    Sound Studies: A Discipline?

    Melle Jan Kromhout has published a nice article at Sounding Out! blog about the sound studies discipline, as discussed in the Sound Signatures Winter School, Amsterdam, January 2014. Has the ever-nascent field of sound studies finally “grown up”? After years of intellectual…