Sonic Field

“Taking place in Amsterdam from 5 February to 29 March 2026 – with the intensive festival weekend running from 26 February to 1 March – the Sonic Acts Biennial, Melted for Love is spread across more than 80 events and 15 venues.“ sonicfield.org/sonic-acts-b...

New book at Bloomsbury edited by yasser elhariry and Liesl Yamaguchi.

“Literature as Sound Studies identifies literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration, contributing a range of terms, models, and methods for attending to sound.”

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The Journal of Sonic Studies (JSS) has a new call for contributions to a special issue addressing radical organizing and sonic practice. sonicfield.org/call-for-pap...

From the myths of antiquity to Margaret Thatcher via Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein, The Gender of Sound charts the gendering of sound in Western culture. Published by @silver-press.bsky.social sonicfield.org/the-gender-o...

In a world overwhelmed by noise, we have forgotten how to truly listen. Beyond the Noise follows Agata, a sound therapist who uses singing bowls and vibrational frequencies to guide people back to themselves. sonicfield.org/beyond-the-n...

“In Poetics of Listening, renowned sound studies scholar Brandon LaBelle brings critical attention to listening as a practice, one that can wield significant impact onto individual, interpersonal and community wellbeing." sonicfield.org/poetics-of-l...

Art Laboratory Berlin has a Podcast Channel called SONIC ECOLOGIES conceived by Tuçe Erel, with composition and production by Korhan Erel sonicfield.org/sonic-ecolog...

Listening After Nature Listening After Nature examines the constructions and erasures that haunt field recording practice and discourse. Analyzing archival and contemporary soundworks…

📖 👀 30% off ‘Listening After Nature’ as part of Bloomsbury’s current festive offer until Dec 10th: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/listening...

Read an extract from Sonic Faction: Audio Essay As Medium And Method - The Wire This extract from new book Sonic Faction considers the possibilities and limitations of the audio essay as a form of sonic psychedelic experiment, prompted by three releases on Hyperdub’s Flatlines ...

The new book Sonic Faction considers the possibilities and limitations of the audio essay as a form of sonic psychedelic experiment, prompted by three releases on @hyperdub.bsky.social's Flatlines sub-label.

Read an extract at The Wire website: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...

Joshua Dittrich explores the material and metaphorical geology of the sonic environment in ‘Geosonics: Listening Through Earth’s Soundscapes’ sonicfield.org/geosonics/ #soundstudies #soundscape #geology

‘Bodies of Sound’ does a huge contribution to sound studies with 220 pages in which dozens of feminist voices speak, encounter, resonate and radically listen. Edited by Irene Revell and Sarah Shin and just published by Silver Press sonicfield.org/bodies-of-so... #soundstudies #feminism

“[w]hen there is nothing to hear, so much starts to sound. Silence is not the absence of sound but the beginning of listening.” —Salomé Voegelin