Sonic Field
@sonicfield
Sound, listening, and audio culture. 🐚 sonicfield.org
Published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments, by Deirdre Loughridge and Thomas Patteson, catalogues “fictophones” invented across myth, literature, theory, video games and art. sonicfield.org/the-museum-o...
Happy World Listening Day ✿ Critical Listening Education in Sound Engineering features eight chapters on auditory imagery, soundwalking, acoustics and the studio as a place where listening is taught. sonicfield.org/critical-lis...
Ecotones approaches boundaries as active zones of contact, friction, and imbalance. The collection asks what becomes perceptible when territory is studied through sound. sonicfield.org/ecotones-inv...
The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design gathers 22 chapters on games, VR, Foley, psychoacoustics, feminist practice, platform production, soundscape research, and sonification. Edited by Michael Filimowicz. sonicfield.org/routledge-ha...
Patrick Valiquet places Pierre Schaeffer’s musique concrète inside a larger question: what should musicians and listeners do with changing broadcast and recording technologies? sonicfield.org/pierre-schae...
Aleph’s silent speech prototype uses under-chin ultrasound to read tongue movement and predict words without an audible voice. A strange, early glimpse of voice interfaces where the computer is watching articulation, not listening to sound. sonicfield.org/silent-speec...
KC Collins’ Sonic UX, from MIT Press (@mitpress.bsky.social), brings sound into user experience research: audible interfaces, product perception, emotion, cognition, and sensory method. 🐚 sonicfield.org/sonic-ux-kc-...
Le Guess Who? has shared On Sound as Substance, a Sound & Culture Summit podcast with Raven Chacon, Giulia Loli, Lengai Loita, and Chihiro Geuzebroek on sound as relation, memory, and medicine. 🐚 sonicfield.org/on-sound-as-...
Institute for Postnatural Studies has opened registration for Sound Ecologies Vol. II, a four-session online seminar with Yuri Tuma on extractivist listening, animal song, queer ecologies, climate fiction, and listening technologies. 🐚 sonicfield.org/sound-ecolog...
Syrian Cassette Archives keeps Syria’s cassette era audible through digitized tapes, cover scans, interviews, and research. 🐚 sonicfield.org/syrian-casse...
Catriel Nievas’ work treats listening as affective space, moving between sound walks, memory, Deep Listening, domestic vibration, anxiety, and the body. 🐚 sonicfield.org/catriel-niev...
Jocelyn Saidenberg’s Echo Otherwise, published by @punctumbooks.bsky.social, listens to sound and loss across ancient and contemporary poetry. Open access, free PDF: 🐚 sonicfield.org/echo-otherwi...
MPa Sound System: Discs turns the room into the sound system: floor speakers, connected discs, audience cushions, iPhone performance, and T-shirt zippers as instruments. A listening architecture by PLASTICPRODUCT with VQ in Tokyo. 🐚 sonicfield.org/mpa-sound-sy...
A new upload on Archive.org opens a huge CCRU and adjacent archive. We traced the sound route: Eshun’s sonic fiction, jungle, AUDINT, Sadie Plant, Fisher, Orphan Drift, Robin Mackay, media ecology, and cybernetic listening. 🐚 sonicfield.org/ccru-archive...
Midjourney Medical is a strange and serious turn by @midjourneyofficial.bsky.social: from diffusion images to a proposed full-body ultrasound CT scanner, where sound, water, sensors, and AI reconstruction replace radiation-based imaging. 🐚 sonicfield.org/midjourney-m...
Telepoetics, a new open-access Edinburgh University Press volume, studies the telephone as literary device, medium, network, and theory of voice. 🐚 sonicfield.org/telepoetics-...
What happens when stone, brass, and gravity begin to behave like a score? Cédric Van Parys’s Terrestrial Tales is a kinetic installation where material tension becomes a form of listening. sonicfield.org/terrestrial-...
The Future is not Lost, Matt Bluemink’s (@bluelabyrinths.bsky.social) new Becoming Press book hears music as a future-making technology, against hauntology’s stalled time. SOPHIE, Arca, Iglooghost, technics, anti-hauntology & new worlds in sound. sonicfield.org/the-future-i...
Listening Glossary, edited by Hannah Kemp-Welch at @silver-press.bsky.social, gathers hundreds of terms for listening across bodies, ecologies, machines, practices, and ears. sonicfield.org/listening-gl...
Masimba Hwati’s Chidzimbahwe Philosophies of Sound brings indigenous Zimbabwean sonic thought into questions of ethics, politics and resistance. sonicfield.org/chidzimbahwe...
Sonic Digest #003: Agentic Ears, Sonic Evidence, and Listening Through the World sonicfield.substack.com/p/sonic-dige...
Ableton’s Extensions SDK by opens Live to JavaScript tools: Context-menu commands, set inspection, batch edits, WebViews, renders, imports, and undo-safe workflows. It’s a completely new automation and creative coding layer for Live. sonicfield.org/ableton-exte...
Barcelona heard after Franco: Tania Gentic’s Geographies of the Ear follows sonic politics through language, memory, migration, radio, punk, drag and protest through the city. sonicfield.org/geographies-...
Phonostack is a local-first, AI-assisted tool for exploring stacks, libraries, and batches of sound. Generate, vary, and organize sonic material for research, sound design, and experimental workflows. Early alpha via Sonic Field Labs: sonicfield.org/labs/phonost...
Claudia Cerulo’s Auditory Perception in Twentieth-Century Self-Narratives, a book on oto-bio-graphical subjects, acoustic memory listening as a force of self-narrative identity. sonicfield.org/auditory-per...
The Listening Biennial is a living network of exhibitions, audio works, workshops, study programs, publishing, and shared research around care, ecology, memory, and community. sonicfield.org/the-listenin...
AI voice is leaving the turn-based era. The new race goes beyond realistic synthetic speech, into systems that can listen, reason, interrupt, translate, call tools, preserve context, and respond while conversation is still unfolding. sonicfield.org/ai-voice-lea...
AudioSpaces treats sound as something local, embodied and revisitable. A voice, a street, a river, a fragment of weather: not just uploaded, but placed. sonicfield.org/audiospaces-...
VOID Link Audio Connectors by Structure Void opens a fluid way to stream audio between Max/MSP, Pure Data, TouchDesigner, VCV Rack, openFrameworks, DAWs and other creative tools. Networked audio as shared studio infrastructure. sonicfield.org/void-link-au...
Dance and Silence, a new Bloomsbury Academic book by Vipavinee Artpradid and Petra Johnson, explores silence through choreography, performance, gesture, ecology, architecture, rest, and embodied knowledge. sonicfield.org/dance-and-si...