Sonic Field

The Routledge Companion to the Sound of Space brings together 34 chapters exploring acoustics, architecture, listening, and sound art. sonicfield.org/routledge-co...

no.name.sound proposes a shared repairs fund, storage and collective decisions about access to protest sound systems. Its first-year account asks who keeps the equipment usable. sonicfield.org/no-name-soun...

Sonic Acts (@sonicacts.bsky.social) has published six more Biennial 2026 recordings on acoustic surveillance, communal radio, suppressed languages and the Tagus River. The roundup also includes ILYICH’s earlier performance. sonicfield.org/sonic-acts-b...

Neuralink's VOICE trial video shows Terry's intended words becoming audible speech. It reports no word error rate or sustained conversational speed. sonicfield.org/neuralink-te...

Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Reader 2 explores listening as artistic research, with subjects including Arctic sonar and web cookies. The English paperback is scheduled for October 31. sonicfield.org/sound-studie...

Ultrasuono uses light, temperature and humidity readings to control audio effects in real time. The developing device can also send sensor data over MIDI to other instruments. sonicfield.org/ultrasuono-e...

Sonic Field 3.0 is here ✿ A new way through our writing, indexes and Labs, with public discovery tools for agents and a waitlist for gradual account and ECO access. Listening keeps asking more of the systems we build. sonicfield.org/sonic-field-...

Holger Schulze’s forecast, “Everything generic will be generated,” puts automated sound in economic terms. His sonic critique asks how sound is produced, circulated, and heard. sonicfield.org/holger-schul...

Immersive Sound Volume II connects binaural and multichannel design with recording, mixing, and distribution. Its 33 chapters follow spatial audio into concrete production settings. sonicfield.org/immersive-so...

StepFun’s StepAudio 3 treats audio as a timed situation: conversations that keep moving, scenes on one timeline, and songs planned before synthesis. Several models remain in preview. sonicfield.org/stepaudio-3-...

Speech AI is moving from turn-based pipelines to continuous streams. GPT-Live-1, Meta Muse, Gradium, Zendesk and Gemini are pushing full-duplex audio, ambient listening, live translation and prompt-designed voices. sonicfield.org/full-duplex-...

K.J. Donnelly’s Hearing Eyes, Seeing Ears examines sound and moving images as a “merged signal” across cinema, television, and games. sonicfield.org/hearing-eyes...

Deveillance's Kalypta runs locally on your Mac to make your voice unreadable to AI notetakers during video calls. sonicfield.org/kalypta-deve...

In Síntesis, Uwe Schmidt (Atom™) models four decades of studio work through subject, tools, object, and process, treating sequencers, error, and machine constraints as epistemological instruments. Published in Spanish by Caja Negra. sonicfield.org/atom-tm-sint...

Multimodal Art Projection’s YuE2-3B pairs an editable ABC musical score with audio synthesis. Its open weights carry a non-commercial license; commercial use of outputs remains unresolved. sonicfield.org/yue2-3b-open...

Domenico Di Paolo and Kieran Feechan’s IMAGO uses tactile controls to navigate neural audio models trained on participating artists’ supplied material, within composer-defined rules. sonicfield.org/imago-ethica...

Polisonics, edited by Matt Lewis and Manal Massalha, examines collective listening as political practice, including mourning after Grenfell and automated dialect recognition in asylum systems. sonicfield.org/polisonics-m...

Kari Iveland’s Sounding the Voice argues that timbre, bodily grain, and listening shape lyrical meaning. The book also examines how AI voice cloning complicates singer identity and listener trust. sonicfield.org/sounding-the...

Tencent Hunyuan’s AuK can rewrite recorded words while keeping the speaker’s voice. Released with MIT-licensed code and weights, it makes speech edits a written instruction and provenance a practical concern. sonicfield.org/auk-tencent-...

Caleb Kelly’s Material Sound argues that sound cannot exist without shifting matter. Due 17 November from Goldsmiths Press, it reads installation and media art beyond Cage’s “sound-as-sound.” sonicfield.org/material-sou...

Siedl/Cao’s Drone & Drone spins 16 pairs of Vietnamese kite flutes on rotating arms. The kinetic installation connects the military and musical meanings of drone. sonicfield.org/drone-drone-...

François Noudelmann’s Thinking with Our Ears follows the voices, accents, and acoustic settings that shape philosophy. His “sound ecology of thought” brings listening into the practice of reading. sonicfield.org/thinking-wit...

The Routledge Companion to Voice and Identity examines how voice produces identity, with cases spanning AI labor, Indigenous film dubbing, and American Sign Language performance. sonicfield.org/routledge-co...

The Vinyl Factory has repressed two Ryoji Ikeda records: The Solar System holds ten continuous sine waves; Code Name: A–Z turns the military phonetic alphabet into locked grooves. sonicfield.org/ryoji-ikeda-...

Mariske Broeckmeyer’s forthcoming Unvoicing Migraine @punctumbooks.bsky.social examines how migraine can disrupt speech and vocal technique, turning the altered voice into material for what she calls “migraine opera.” sonicfield.org/unvoicing-mi...

Microduck gives each 25 cm robot a persistent voice. Its open-source synthesizer seeds pitch, timbre and even “quackiness” from the unit’s chip serial, carrying the same vocal character across calls, gestures and group performance. sonicfield.org/microduck-au...

nodemusic maps electronic sound through 72 connected nodes, from the Telharmonium in 1897 to generative AI in 2024. Search, filter, or explore chronology, influence, and horizon views. sonicfield.org/node-music-e...

Gascia Ouzounian’s forthcoming The Trembling City @mitpress.bsky.social examines how sound, vibration and control of urban atmospheres operate in violence, concealment and resistance, with Gaza and Beirut central to the book. sonicfield.org/the-tremblin...

FORTHEFUTURE’s Black Sound Artists: A Living Index maps Black sound practice across performance, installation, ensembles and recorded music, with direct links to work beyond streaming platforms. sonicfield.org/black-sound-...

Stable Audio 3.0’s beta DAW plugin and expanded web app move generation into the production session, with alternate takes, section replacement, multitrack mixing, processing, and export. By @stabilityai.bsky.social sonicfield.org/stable-audio...

We’ve started organizing 631 public STEIM recordings into a searchable research collection linking performances, people, works, instruments and places. Corrections and community contributions are welcome ✿ sonicfield.org/steim-archiv...

AI audio is moving beyond the prompt box. Releases from ElevenLabs, Cartesia, Fish Audio, Pipecat and BreezeBlue bring generation into editable sessions, code, agent tools and live voice systems. sonicfield.org/ai-audio-mov...

Sonic Acts @sonicacts.bsky.social published two recordings from its 2026 symposium. Eleni Ikoniadou asks what art can do when counter-narratives are absorbed by systems they oppose; Salomé Voegelin asks whether political desire can move from command toward relation. sonicfield.org/eleni-ikonia...

Electronic Sound @electronicsound.bsky.social 140 turns to the tape loop, pairing a 100-page magazine with an optional CD edition of Steve Reich's Tape Pieces. sonicfield.org/electronic-s...

Bad Listeners by @jlsmilges.bsky.social uses crip time to ask how communication might accommodate neurodivergent and disabled people who listen later, differently, briefly, or under safer conditions. sonicfield.org/bad-listener...

Matic Cues by @maticrobots.bsky.social joins local acoustic sensing, gesture recognition, a 3D map, and cloud language parsing so that a spoken request can become a situated physical action. sonicfield.org/matic-turns-...

Power in Listening brings Sounding Out! into print. Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever, Liana Silva, and Aaron Trammell, the NYU Press collection gathers writing on race, gender, technology, media, access, and auditory power. sonicfield.org/power-in-lis...

Bogotá label Portal Sur makes each Meta Disc a record, object, interface, and meeting point. A kaleidoscope, dissolving NFC soap, 51 NFC locations in Bogotá, and a hand-cranked music box turn four releases into new ways to listen. sonicfield.org/portal-sur-r...

Sarah A. Bell’s open-access book “Vox ex Machina” follows voice synthesis from the 1939 Voder to Siri, asking how technical limits became recognizable styles and social expectations of machine speech. sonicfield.org/vox-ex-machina

After Colombia’s 7.4 earthquake, sound workers are joining coordinated searches for faint signs of life. Near an active site, stop engines, tools, music and drones, and report any signal to the team in charge. sonicfield.org/listening-fo...

STEIM’s YouTube archive holds 631 public videos of live electronics, performances, and workshops. sonicfield.org/steim-instru...

The five talks from Tsonami Arte Sonoro’s 2026 Politics of Listening seminar are online. They trace how voice, music, noise, and silence relate to power, from silencing and surveillance to struggles over shared acoustic space. sonicfield.org/seminario-po...

New calls/events added to our recently released calendar ✿ We also added a little toggle to filter between closing soon and recently added, so you don’t miss anything! Thanks for all the feedback on this ♡ Let us know what you’d like to see in there. 🐚 sonicfield.org/calendar

Sound and Space in Film examines how reverberation, offscreen sound, mixdown, ambient sound, and silence construct cinematic space. Edited by Antoine Gaudin and David Roche. sonicfield.org/sound-and-sp...

Machine Listening treats computational audition as engineering, knowledge-power, and artistic practice. Its open platform joins writing, software, installation, music, curation, and collective study. sonicfield.org/machine-list...

tekhnē journal’s fifth issue follows sonic ecologies from microbial vibration and river sensing to field biology, spectral presence, and Citizens Band radio. Six contributions move among organisms, landscapes, and technical media. sonicfield.org/from-microbe...

The story of how @emeisazam.bsky.social went to @the-new-centre.bsky.social looking for a place to study sound and found a parallel academy where philosophy, politics, computation, literature, and art could question it without asking whether it belonged in the room. sonicfield.org/studying-sou...

The Sonic Matter Framework is now in our Labs. MASA gives granular and spectral workflows a protocol for material operations and lineage; Cosmoaudition turns attributed planetary and infrastructural observations into modulation. sonicfield.org/sonic-matter...