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...

Listening can be a form of investigation. Sonic Detection reads sound as clue, atmosphere and method; moving through fieldwork, performance, fiction, archives and sonic margins. sonicfield.org/sonic-detect...

Sonic Field Labs is now online: a new space for research into cybernetic sound, computational listening, and agentic audio. Starting with agentic listening skills, a code vault, and a 90k+ metadata library for sound studies, audio tech, and sonic arts. sonicfield.org/sonic-field-...

Heiner Kruse’s Modular Synthesizers book is available in English. sonicfield.org/modular-synt...

Sound can be testimony, trace, weapon, archive. «Earshot» expands what counts as evidence, using audio ballistics, earwitness testimony and sonic profiling to investigate violence when images are absent. sonicfield.org/earshot-list...

AI music and audio is moving beyond prompt-to-song. Claude’s MCP connectors for Ableton and Splice, plus community tools for REAPER, Max for Live, MIDI, Bitwig, Logic, FL Studio and more, point to something bigger: the agentic audio studio. sonicfield.org/ai-agents-en...

Soundcamp / Reveil returns May 2–3 with its 13th edition: a 24+1 hour planetary broadcast that follows daybreak around the Earth through live environmental streams. More than a livestream, Reveil is a distributed listening ritual ♡ sonicfield.org/soundcamp-re...

MOSS Audio brings open-source audio understanding into focus: machine listening, sound analysis, and AI audio research moving beyond closed systems. sonicfield.org/moss-audio-a...

Our second newsletter is out! Sonic Digest #002 open.substack.com/pub/sonicfie...

MAGMA is a handcrafted piezoelectric contact hydrophone by Jorge Barco, made in Medellín. A tool for listening through contact and immersion: water, metal, roots, ice, domestic objects, and hidden vibrations becoming signal. sonicfield.org/magma-listen...

Acoustic Colonialism by Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante is a powerful study of sound as a terrain of colonial, racial, and patriarchal hegemony, but also of Mapuche agency, resistance, and response. sonicfield.org/acoustic-col...

Eleven v3 is not just another model bump. It signals a shift in synthetic speech: from voice generation to something closer to directed performance. sonicfield.org/eleven-v3-ai...

Here at Sonic Field, we are constantly tracking the collectives that push the boundaries of how we experience, conceptualize, and mobilize sound. Recently, it was Sound Studies Forum (SSF), the first interdisciplinary research group of its kind in Italy sonicfield.org/sound-studie...

‘Sound and Detention’ explores soundscapes in places, processes and systems of confinement in order to better understand experiences of imprisonment and to imagine alternatives to the carceral state. sonicfield.org/sound-and-de...

Suno has announced v5.5, a new update centered on personalization: Voices, Custom Models, and My Taste. sonicfield.org/suno-5-5-mak...

Wild Sound turns an analytic eye and ear to the role of background sound in cinema, to the way that film sound captures, creates, represents, and even critiques the environments that we inhabit. sonicfield.org/wild-sound/

Spectre I, Deveillance, and the Return of Anti-Surveillance Sound sonicfield.org/spectre-i-de...

Switched On: The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women is the first book dedicated exclusively to the female protagonists of Latin American electronic music. sonicfield.org/switched-on-...

Listening on Display provides an empirical investigation of the historically, culturally, and socially contingent ways in which artists, curators, and visitors relate to sounds in contemporary art exhibitions. sonicfield.org/listening-on...

“In The Archive and the Aural City, Alejandro L. Madrid examines the possibilities for retrieving from the archive sounds that were not meant to be heard. sonicfield.org/the-archive-...

“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.” sonicfield.org/literature-a...

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...

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

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