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Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, ‘Melted for Love’ is beginning to take shape, and the first events and tickets are now live. Dive in 👉 2026.sonicacts.com/programme

The first artists of Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, ‘Melted for Love’ are here! 80+ events, 15+ venues, 2 months in Amsterdam (5 February –29 March) – with many more artists still to come. See who is joining → 2026.sonicacts.com/news/meet-th...

Just as every house has its walls and roof, we also built a programme outline that lays the foundation for the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, 'Melted for Love'.

Read more → 2026.sonicacts.com

Visual identity: Anja Kaiser with Knoth & Renner
Sound: @ahossan.bsky.social & KMRU
Video: Nelly Nakahara

Announcing the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, ‘Melted for Love’!
📍Amsterdam | 🗓 5 Feb – 29 Mar

80+ events, 200+ artists, 15+ venues.
Exhibitions, concerts, listening sessions, club nights & more.
Reimagining home as a site of love, care & belonging.

Learn more → 2026.sonicacts.com

We are happy to announce that Sonic Acts has made its debut on Substack, an online platform for independent journalism. Subscribe to receive future interviews, articles, and commissioned texts directly in your inbox.

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"My work over the last 7 years consistently features silenced communities. I’m drawn to what happens when humans are pushed to extremes..There are a lot of suppressed voices in the regions I travel to" Lukas Marxt talking to @sonicacts.bsky.social

Read more: buff.ly/wldaipk

YouTube video by Sonic Acts Interview: C. Lavender at Spatial Sound Studio

Interview up now with @sonicacts.bsky.social about my residency at Willem Twee Studios to create a piece for Sonic Act's new spatial sound studio. "Dissipation Traces" will be presented as part of Sonic Act's 2026 Biennial in 8.2 sound. youtu.be/9kJ1QHjwGbI?...

Sonic Acts | Archive Everything Silenced Or Invisible Is Still Beautiful

"My work over the last 7 years consistently features silenced communities. I’m drawn to what happens when humans are pushed to extremes..There are a lot of suppressed voices in the regions I travel to" Lukas Marxt talking to @sonicacts.bsky.social

AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB is out now on True Story

LUKAS MARXT
August 22 – 24

FILMMAKER IN PERSON!

Details: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

Sonic Acts | Agenda Call For Applications – Submit Your Proposal Before 18 August

#Opencall Alterlife--->critical artistic exploration and meaningful experimentation across two residency periods and two institutions @sonicacts.bsky.social and Rupert sonicacts.com/agenda/openc...

Deadline: August 17!

Discover the story behind Sonic Acts. Our new longread traces the organisation’s evolution – from a festival in the 1990s to its development into an expansive platform for experimental and interdisciplinary art, and the Sonic Acts Biennial.

Read the full story on our website: www.sonicacts.com

Imatges de la nostra antena de captació dels satèl·lits NOAA instal·lada a @hangarorg.bsky.social amb open-weather, divendres i dissabte, dies d'alerta a Catalunya. Més imatges --> open-weather.community/archive/?aut... #DIWO

Sonic Acts | Agenda Call For Applications – Submit Your Proposal Before 18 August

Rupert and Sonic Acts are pleased to announce the open call for the second edition of ALTERLIFE – a joint production and research residency between Vilnius and Amsterdam.

📅 → Deadline: Sunday 17 August 2025, 23:59 CEST.
📝 → Read more and apply via sonicacts.com/agenda/openc...

Sonic Acts welcomes Clara de Asís as the next resident of its recently launched Spatial Sound Residency. Across two residency periods, she will develop a new work titled ‘Infinity This Time’.

More info via sonicacts.com/news/spatial...

Sonic Acts | News Introducing: Sonic Acts' Spatial Sound Residency

Looking forward to heading to the Netherlands next week to be Sonic Act's first spatial sound artist in residence. I'll be recording at the incredible vintage synth studio Willem Twee before heading to their spatial audio studio to work on editing/mixing/spatialization sonicacts.com/news/spatial...

Sonic Acts welcomes C. Lavender (@clavender.bsky.social‬) as the first official resident of its recently launched Spatial Sound Residency – a programme supporting artists working with multichannel composition and spatial sound.

More info via sonicacts.com/news/ssr-lav....

This summer, explore standout long reads on our website: sonicacts.com/archive. We’ve been sharing a series of interviews and essays from key Sonic Acts Press back catalogue titles.

All featured books are now discounted in our shop: shop.sonicacts.com.

Exciting news! Sonic Acts is launching the Spatial Sound Residency in Rotterdam – a new space for artists to create multichannel works premiering at the 2026 Biennial. Invited residents will explore spatial sound in this next chapter of our 30-year journey. More info: www.sonicacts.com

Sonic Acts is launching a Summer Sale with a wide selection of books, magazines, and sonic releases available at discounted prices.

🛒 Shop online until 10 July via: shop.sonicacts.com

📦 Read more about our titles and releases on sale here: sonicacts.com/news/summer-...

Now reading

The Sounds of Toxicity, the Stubbornness of Survivance
– Elizabeth A. Povinelli

sonicacts.com/archive/eliz...

Via @sonicacts.bsky.social 🙏

Hear hear! Final chance to apply to ‘The Walls Have Ears’!

Offered by Sonic Acts and De Ateliers/Woonhuis, this fully funded sound studies writing residency takes place in Amsterdam from 2 February to 3 March 2026.

Submit your proposal before Saturday 14 June, 23:59.
www.sonicacts.com

Image by Jasmina Al-Qaisi

Workshop with the RWM Working Group and pantea

The practice of transmission seen as something relational: recipe for a DIY streambox

Thursday June 17, 10h. At MACBA

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🚨⏰📝 From commission to residency, workshop to performance – Sonic Acts opens new space for artists, writers, and researchers to reflect, make, and unearth what lies between sound and memory, language and the body, technology and ecology. 🚨⏰📝

Don't miss the coming deadlines!

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Open Call: 🌱 SPRINGS 🌱

Are you an early-career artist (32 y/o & under, NL-based) ready to develop a bold new project?

Cross-disciplinary proposals are welcomed: sound works, field walks, workshops, printed matter, AV experiments, etc.

📝 → Find out more & apply before 2 June: bit.ly/42WF16L

We are accepting applications now!

Join us from 11 to 15 June as we explore how sound can carry memory, identity, and legacy across time. 🔊🔊 This archiving sound workshop is open to all artists, 18–25y/o, NL-based.

📝 → Apply before 11 May: sonicacts.com/news/voice-a...

📢 Sonic Acts is seeking interns! 📢 Join us ahead of the 2026 Biennial and gain hands-on learning experience in realising a major art, sound, and technology programme. Learn more & apply: sonicacts.homerun.co

Have you heard our new podcast? Sonic Trax dives into the archive, tracing sound art’s evolving legacy 🎧 Episodes 1-3 are now live – from reworked recordings from early Sonic Acts festivals to the legendary Dutch artist, instrument maker, and radical performer Michel Waisvisz: bit.ly/43QnY8j

Super excited that my photo essay is part of the new ECOES publication
@sonicacts.bsky.social
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Are you ready for some muddy business?

Join us ‘Alterlife: Sewage and Mud’ on Thursday, 27 February at 20:00 (doors open 19:30) at Ventilator Cinema (OT301) in Amsterdam. With presentations by Alina Schmuch, Cocky Eek, and noiserr aka Martina Raponi.

More info and tickets via www.sonicacts.com

Can't wait! <3