Sound Research

"Artist Jana Winderen transports us underwater, to listen to the sonic wonders of the sea."

"As someone whose entry point into the vast world of musical repertoire has mostly been through collecting records and since the most unusual and unique things are usually the hardest ones to hear live, Maryanne Amacher has always been something of an enigma to me. A composer of vast, space-specific sonic panoramas at crushingly loud volumes, Amacher defies containment and commodification. When Tzadik finally released a CD of her music, I finally thought I was able to experience it. But actually, I hadn't. Two speakers can't really convey what she is doing in space and as an apartment dweller the kinds of volumes she demands would inevitably lead to an eviction. Yet through listening and reading her essays on various subjects, especially her fascinating contribution to a panel on Cage's influence where she spoke about creating a music that is somehow liberated from time, I felt compelled to talk to her. We spent only about an hour in conversation-the unfortunate time constraints of a reality based on schedules-but it felt like it could have gone on forever. And, in some ways, it will…"

Writing form sound artists

BEES and sound

"I love talking about field recording, as you can gather from reading my blog or following me on social media. I'm deeply passionate about all aspects of the discipline and I also love to inspire others to pursue it. Something I haven't talked much about is the editing and mastering side, probably because it isn't as glamorous as teetering on the edge of a volcano or being chased by an orangutan in the rainforest. It may also be because I do my best to escape the studio whenever I can, and this would mean more time spent indoors. At any rate, with this blog post I'm trying to fix that."

"Darius Marder's Oscar-nominated film is less about the Deaf community than about the process of losing a sense inextricably tied to one's identity."

"Nestup is an experimental markup language for musical rhythms. It's specifically designed to break away from a fixed musical grid."

"The community you live in strongly shapes the soundscape of your life story. Why? Because human culture and the natural world dictate not only what we hear but also how we listen"

Adding ambiance to your scene

" The "Testimonium" series explores waste in different formats. It is made up of three sound and visual works that I created from recordings and photos I made at one of the world's largest landfills, the Dandora dumpsite in Nairobi, Kenya, and at very modern recycling and wastewater facilities in Denmark and Latvia."

MIT researchers have built a battery-free pinpointing system dubbed Underwater Backscatter Localization (UBL).

"For many species of frogs, the auditory space is just as crowded as in our pre-pandemic cocktail parties. When male frogs call out, they are sharing space with thousands of other frogs - from their own and different species - each also calling at the same time. Within this cacophony of croaks, the female frogs must make the important choice of finding the right male for mating based on the quality of his call."

"Onda started talking to people who work in radio and learning about mysterious transmissions, coded messages from government broadcasts, and other unusual sounds that float through the radio waves. But nobody could decipher the recordings he'd been collecting."

"The natural world invites us into the indescribable yet intimately heard-what does it mean to move beyond hearing and truly listen?"

"In this edition of Fusion Journal we wish to explore the act of listening to the land, to others, to difference, as encountered in embodied and virtual spaces. We especially encouraged contributions that represent creative practice as well as more traditional text-based articles. How might we attempt to interpret what is being said in languages we do not understand? How might we resist - even if just for a moment - adding our own sounds to the noises of the neoliberal project of the anthropocene: the clashing music of the shopping mall, the automated voice, the shock jock, the celebrity, the power tools, the leaf blowers, the bulldozers, the mining blasts. How might we listen out, or tune in, to the small, the subtle, the unnoticed, the dying, the unusual, the banal, the mad, the unexpected?"

Podcast about Max Neuhaus' groundbreaking work Radio Net

"Radio Performance in the Main station of Leipzig, Germany in June 2003 initiated by the radio artist group Ligna. Ligna invited radio listeners to participate in a "Radioballett", to enter the station - an extensively surveilled and controlled space -, equipped with portable radios and headphones. "

"Radio Silence explores the silent moments of talk-radio, combining eight AM broadcasts into an expanded conversation based on the "negative spaces" between words."