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...

PhenoType gives Synplant 2 a vocabulary for mutation. Magnus Lidström’s (@soniccharge.bsky.social) free local script uses a classifier trained on almost 60,000 patches to turn short descriptions into editable sounds. sonicfield.org/phenotype-sy...

MuScriptor reads five-second spectrograms as tokens for time, instrument, pitch, note onset and ending. Our new note examines what this open-weight model preserves, classifies and leaves out when it turns a full mix into MIDI. sonicfield.org/muscriptor-a...

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...

Subvert (@subvert.fm) is where your sound should be in 2026. It carries the lessons of SoundCloud, Spotify, and Bandcamp into a harder proposition: the people who make a music platform valuable should own and govern it. sonicfield.org/subvert-is-w...

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...

Discreet Archive has reintroduced the Seaphone, a waterproof geophone microphone for recording vibration through water, soil, stone, metal and machinery. Made to order in West Wales, it works without phantom power. sonicfield.org/discreet-arc...

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...

What happens when an artwork lasts 0.083 seconds? Disinformation’s Theophany compresses a VLF recording of lightning into the world’s shortest sound installation. sonicfield.org/disinformati...

GPT-Live makes voice interaction continuous: listening, speaking, waiting, interrupting, and delegating deeper work without leaving the conversation. It also finally counts to 100. sonicfield.org/gpt-live-ope...

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...

July is a month of listening at Sonic Field. Around World Listening Day on July 18, we’ll follow activations, revisit archives, and share new open infrastructure for listening, memory, computation, and sonic research. sonicfield.org/july-month-o...

Sonic Citizenship, @seismografmag.bsky.social’s July focus issue, listens to citizenship through audibility, governance, belonging, care, and sonic heritage. sonicfield.org/seismograf-s...

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-...

Earworm is public: an open-source protocol for persistent listening in agentic audio systems, giving sounds a memory of prompts, provenance, edits, analysis, and context. 🐚 sonicfield.org/earworm-pers...

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...

The Quiet Zone, Petal Kimberly Samuel’s study for Rutgers University Press, listens to quiet as demand, shelter, pressure, and racialized condition. A short note on silence, noise, and who is allowed to inhabit quiet. 🐚 sonicfield.org/the-quiet-zo...

Contingent Sounds has released An Alchemy of Sounds in Crises, a limited artist book on sound, listening, bodies, archives, maps, recipes, and crisis. 🐚 sonicfield.org/an-alchemy-o...

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...

SSNN: sonicLAB has released SSNN, Sinan Bokesoy’s new spiking neural network instrument for synthesis and resynthesis, with a concept developed with Daito Manabe. 🐚 sonicfield.org/sonic-lab-ss...

María del Rosario Acosta López’s On the (im)possibility of listening to oneself, a new Errant Bodies Press pamphlet on trauma, memory, and the difficult work of listening. 🐚 sonicfield.org/on-the-impos...

The Atlantic’s AI Watchdog makes music datasets visible. The harder question is what happens when recordings, voices, styles, rooms, and listening habits become training material. 🐚 sonicfield.org/ai-watchdog-...

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-...

Cartesia has released Sonic 3.5, its latest TTS model, alongside Ink 2 for speech-to-text. The interesting shift is timing: latency, pronunciation, repair, and live turn-taking as infrastructure. 🐚 sonicfield.org/cartesia-son...

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...

AI audio is becoming infrastructure. The harder test is trust: latency, language, identity, emotion, control, and public use. sonicfield.org/the-live-aud...

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-...

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America’s June 2026 issue brings together acoustics, AI, ecology, and listening: underwater detection, bioacoustics, Bayesian methods, psychoacoustics, noise, and physics-informed AI. sonicfield.org/jasa-june-20...

Stable Audio 3 by @stabilityai.bsky.social points to a different path for AI audio: open weights, local runs, flexible duration, inpainting, and edit-oriented sound design. Less black-box jukebox, more infrastructure for instruments, DAWs, and creative coding. sonicfield.org/stable-audio-3

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...

Sonic Field 2.0 is live: a journal with a lab attached, bringing together essays, archives, tools, datasets, and open experiments in AI audio, machine listening, soundscape politics, and digital sound studies. sonicfield.org/sonic-field-...

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...

AKOÚŌ is now public: an open repository from Sonic Field Labs for exploring how AI agents can listen. A portable skill layer with listening modes, commands, schemas, and evaluation materials for more precise sonic inquiry. sonicfield.org/akouo-operat...