Sonic Acts is an interdisciplinary arts organization focused on the research, development, and production of work at the intersection of art, science, and theory. Originally founded to shape new direc
Hugo Esquinca + Russell Haswell performing as part of Expanded Experience at Muziekgebouw during the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024. Photo by Pierre Zylstra.
TRANCE at Paradiso in Amsterdam, during the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024. Photo by Pierre Zylstra
IsoScope by Joris Strijbos, a kinetic sound-and-light installation. Commissioned and co-produced by Sonic Acts and Hilde Methi for Dark Ecology 2015. Langora, Norway. Photo by Jeroen Molenaar.
Night Air: Breathing with Clouds, OT301, Amsterdam. Photo by Sabine Van Nistelrooij.
Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary time-based medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used
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…Timothy Morton, Rosi Braidotti, Jodi Dean, Tony Cokes, and Ulrike Ottinger. In 2021, Sonic Acts Press began publishing Ecoes, a magazine dedicated to sound art, technology and ecology. The name of the magazine comes from a portmanteau of 'ecology' and 'echoes'. As of 2024, the magazine has seven issues. In…
Janet Cardiff's Forty Part Motet (2001) in the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark
Georges Lentz's 43-hour String Quartet(s) at the Cobar Sound Chapel (2022), with loudspeakers in the four walls
Harry Bertoia, Textured Screen, 1954
Panopticon: The Singing Ringing Tree