Situated Listening asks how bodies, places, apparatuses, and cultures shape what becomes audible. sonicfield.org/situated-lis...
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AI voice is getting smaller, faster, and more continuous. From tiny local TTS to GPT-Live, MOSS, WebRTC, and WARP, speech is becoming listening infrastructure. sonicfield.org/the-voice-th...
The Voice That Listens - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
Audio8, Inflect v2, VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet, MOSS Transcribe-Diarize, Cohere Transcribe Arabic, and GPT-Live point toward speech systems that are smaller, more continuous, and more operational. LISTENING...
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Samantha Bennett examines how audio culture turns tacit knowledge into secrets, authority, and commodities, then asks what these promised revelations actually disclose. sonicfield.org/examining-se...
alp-data by @earthspecies.bsky.social gives Animal Language Processing a shared layer for 35+ bioacoustic datasets. Provenance and each dataset’s license stay attached. sonicfield.org/alp-data-ani...
alp-data gives Animal Language Processing a shared data layer - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
A new open-source Python package turns fragmented bioacoustic collections into reproducible infrastructure for studying animal communication across species.
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Mike Edwards’s Soundscapes of Life turns to listening amid climate change and biodiversity loss, treating both as crises of relation. Its Integral Listening framework moves between interior and exterior soundscapes and more-than-human lives. sonicfield.org/soundscapes-...
Soundscapes of Life - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
A new Routledge book connects soundscape practice, empathy, and arts-based environmental work across nine chapters on listening and more-than-human relations.
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Three years in and still unfinished, Wojciech Dobry’s See the music makes volume, frequency, filtering, and beat logic visible in the browser. Six visualizers respond to one track. sonicfield.org/see-the-musi...
See the music: a notebook on realtime interactive audio visualization - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
Wojciech Dobry's See the music turns a track into a sequence of visual experiments, making audio analysis and beat-tracking decisions visible in the browser.
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ZAKAL turns two exposed reverb springs into a playable feedback loop. Filtering, delay, regeneration and output EQ shape the signal as it crosses between electrical and mechanical states. sonicfield.org/zakal-resona...
ZAKAL turns a spring tank into a feedback instrument - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
ZAKAL is a hardware feedback instrument and spring reverb whose resonant loop can run directly or through a low-pass filter and delay.
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Going Out gathers 580 pages of soundwalks, scores, performances, interviews and situated listening. Elena Biserna’s anthology follows listening as it moves through streets, environments and public life. sonicfield.org/going-out-wa...
GRM Tools Atelier turns @inagrm.bsky.social’s software lineage into a patchable multichannel instrument: eight processors, polyadic modulation, visualization, morphing, and a system rooted in musique concrète. sonicfield.org/grm-tools-at...
GRM Tools Atelier: a modular laboratory for making and hearing - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
Released in 2025 and expanded in 2026, GRM Tools Atelier brings eight processors, three modulators, polyadic patching, multichannel operation, and real-time visualization into a new sound laboratory.
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A machine can detect, transcribe, separate, and generate sound. What would support its claim to have listened? Our new project, LISTENING.md, puts that question inside an open stack, a working terminology, and a benchmark in development. sonicfield.org/listening-md...
“Before the Command” hears the agentic desktop as a two-way acoustic relation: the machine listens, and we listen back. It then turns to experimental improvisation to imagine a relationship with @ChatGPT's new Voice Mode that goes beyond voice control. sonicfield.org/before-the-c...
Before the Command - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
As live voice enters the agentic desktop, the interface becomes acoustic in both directions: the machine listens to us, and we listen back to it. Experimental improvisation offers a sharper framework ...
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Matt Bluemink @bluelabyrinths.bsky.social proposes solarpunk music as a shared direction carried by very different practices. Three Trapped Tigers, MSPAINT, and Yosi Horikawa connect anti-hauntology to eco-futurism. sonicfield.org/solarpunk-mu...
Solarpunk music after ambient utopia - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
A new Blue Labyrinths essay asks what solarpunk music could become when it is understood as a plural practice of hope, technological experimentation, and cultural subversion.
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Kim Cascone’s Post-Digital Music gathers nineteen essays from 1999–2026 on laptop performance, subtle listening, digital error, and the noise field. We return to a voice that has shaped Sonic Field since its early years. sonicfield.org/post-digital...
Florian TM Zeisig’s Recursive Coherence Fields use quiet, slowly modulated sound and vibration to shape the acoustic-perceptual ground of rooms: the background felt before any one sound becomes the focus. sonicfield.org/recursive-co...
Recursive Coherence Fields tune the background of a room - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
An introduction to Florian TM Zeisig's Recursive Coherence Fields and the acoustic-perceptual ground: quiet, site-responsive sound and vibration fields positioned beneath focal attention.
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LOM’s tiny mikroUši microphones return 23 July at 16:00 CEST. The cult field-recording mics come in mini-jack and phantom-powered XLR versions, and this batch may sell out quickly. sonicfield.org/lom-mikrousi...
LOM’s cult mikroUši microphones return tomorrow - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
LOM’s tiny, low-noise mikroUši field microphones return in a limited restock on 23 July, including the standard mini-jack pair and phantom-powered XLR versions.
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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...
PhenoType gives Synplant 2 a vocabulary for mutation - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
PhenoType turns plain-language descriptions into editable Synplant 2 patches through a compact local classifier trained on almost 60,000 generated patches.
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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...
MuScriptor interprets a mix as a sequence of tokens - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
MuScriptor turns full music mixes into instrument-separated MIDI by treating transcription as language modeling, making its choices about pitch, time, taxonomy, and omitted detail available for inspec...
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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...
Subvert is where your sound should be in 2026 - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
Subvert turns the lessons of SoundCloud, Spotify, and Bandcamp into a live music marketplace owned and governed by artists, labels, supporters, and workers.
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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...
Discreet Archive reintroduces the Seaphone - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
Discreet Archive's Seaphone is available again: a waterproof microphone built around a geophone capsule for field recording through water and solid materials.
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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...
Theophany and the shortest sound installation - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
Disinformation's Theophany, described by Joe Banks as the world's shortest sound installation, edits a VLF radio recording of lightning into a 0.083-second event repeated inside exhibition space.
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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...
GPT-Live turns voice into a continuous interface - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
OpenAI has introduced GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice model family powering ChatGPT Voice, with GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini rolling out globally and API access planned next.
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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...
July, a Month of Listening - Sonic Field - Operative system for sound and listening culture
For World Listening Day 2026, Sonic Field is treating July as a month of listening: a time for activations, archive returns, shared initiatives, and new open infrastructure around listening, memory, a...
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Sonic Citizenship, @seismografmag.bsky.social’s July focus issue, listens to citizenship through audibility, governance, belonging, care, and sonic heritage. sonicfield.org/seismograf-s...
Sonic Citizenship — SF Journal
Seismograf has published Sonic Citizenship, a July focus issue edited by Morten Breinbjerg, Marie Koldkjær Højlund, and Sissel Raahede Lundgård on how citizenship is enacted through sound and listenin...
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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-...
