Sonic Acts

16–29 October Love Numbers by Anthea Caddy & Marcin Pietruszewski A sound installation that creates a physiological and psychoacoustic experience, evoking expansive bodies of water and the atmosphere as immense spatial and temporal territories. → Tickets 20 October La notte di Sonic Acts at Teatro alle Tese Features live performances by aya x MFO, emme, S280F, and Yen Tech, DJ sets by Soft Break and snufkin, with light and space design by Theresa Baumgartner. → Tickets

There are still some tickets left for Sonic Acts programmes at La Biennale Musica in Venice. Plan your visit while they last!

Don't miss out on this year's Sonic Acts shop sale 🫧 Until the end of September we have discounts on selected print matter and audio releases, ranging from coveted materials from our archive to the most recent edition of Ecoes magazine. And for those in Berlin this weekend: Sonic Acts Press will be at Miss Read Art Book Fair and Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Come say hello!

Celebrate Ecoes #5 at San Serriffe On 13 July from 20:00 to 22:00, join us at San Serriffe Art Bookstore to celebrate the fifth issue of Ecoes magazine. Whirling around the topic of water, this launch event welcomes readings and Q&A sessions with magazine contributors Alice Johnston Rougeaux, Annika Kappner and Hannah Pezzack. → This event is free and reservation is not required! Find out more at: sonicacts.com/agenda/ecoes-5-launch🐬 Ecoes is a periodic journal from Sonic Acts Press, focusing on art in the age of pollution. A portmanteau of ‘ecology’ and ‘echoes’, the magazine showcases compelling artistic and critical perspectives that engage with the pasts and afterlives of environmental harm, toxicity, extraction, and waste. Including contributions from nineteen artists, researchers and writers, our latest issue is the result of meandering investigations and artistic experimentation. 📸 Annika Kappner, AWKĀ, 2020. Sound & image courtesy of the artist.

Tickets now on sale! Visit us in Venice for Sonic Acts' collaboration with La Biennale di Venezia: Anthea Caddy and Marcin Pietruszewski’s Love Numbers, a newly co-commissioned sound installation, and La notte di Sonic Acts, an afterhours programme of live performances and DJ sets. *16–29 October* Designed for cello, synthetic sound and parabolic loudspeakers, Love Numbers explores cosmological forces of the Sun and Moon that form multiple opposing thermal and gravitational pulls in the Earth’s atmosphere. The piece gets its name from a set of parameters introduced in 1909 by English mathematician Augustus Love, used to identify the overall elastic response of the Earth to the tides. *20 October* Also taking place at Teatro alle Tese, La notte di Sonic Acts features live performances by Aya, Emme, S280F, Yen Tech, alongside DJ sets by Soft Break and snufkin. With immersive light and space design by visual artist Theresa Baumgartner. → More info & tickets at: bit.ly/46osY30

Read: Contemplating Bubbles, the Moon, and Cycles of Water – Tomoko Sauvage interviewed by Maud Seuntjens In an interview for the latest issue of Ecoes magazine, Japanese-French musician and sound artist Tomoko Sauvage talks to Maud Seuntjens about her fascination with bubbles, waterbowls and aquatic soundscapes, as imagined in her new sound installation Buloklok and other sound pieces. 'The hydrophonic feedback that you can hear first arose as an error. I was trying to avoid it, but it sounded too beautiful to cut. That was a big turning point. I started to embrace the spatial and environmental factors, and take risks and chances, employing them as compositional methods. It opened up so many possibilities.’ → Read the full conversation now at sonicacts.com: bit.ly/45XJc2K

Ecoes #5 is here 💧 Ecoes is Sonic Acts Press' periodic magazine focusing on art in the age of pollution. A portmanteau of ‘ecology’ and ‘echoes’, the publication showcases compelling artistic and critical perspectives that engage with the pasts and afterlives of environmental harm, toxicity, extraction, and waste. Water whirls through the fifth edition, weighed down by ‘toxic muck’, rain and crystals of ice, or light as bubbles and the hairs on coral larvae. This new body of texts is the result of meandering investigations and artistic experimentation. Featuring: Alice Johnston Rougeaux Anastasia (A) Khodyreva Annika Kappner Arie Altena Brackish Collective Éric La Casa Hannah Pezzack Hannah Rowan Jac Common Karen Bakker Katy Lewis Hood Lucia Dove Maud Seuntjens Philip Vermeulen Rita Wong Stefanie Hessler Tarek Atoui Therese Keogh Tomoko Sauvage → https://shop.sonicacts.com

Here's the latest news from Sonic Acts 📡 → The lineup & tickets for Maritime Frictions are here! On 19 May from 16:00 to midnight, join us at Ruigoord for an outdoors listening session with Lance Laoyan, community dinner, talks from Fred Carter, Charmaine Chua, and Liquid Time (Jacob Bolton and Miriam Matthiessen), a screening of Michaela Büsse's Building with Nature, a performance by Velma Spell, and snufkin closing the night with a DJ set. bit.ly/3ViPcOU → Pre-order your copy of Field Docket: published by Sonic Acts Press for FieldARTS, the pocket-sized book details thirty entries for critical thought and creative practice encountered in the plural currents, contours and conflicts of watery fields in the Netherlands. shop.sonicacts.com → We've made many new additions to the Sonic Acts YouTube channel! Delve into our online archive and watch recordings from Night Air events and the Sonic Acts Biennial symposium. Don't know where to start? This week we highlight Nerea Calvillo's inaugural presentation Sensing Polluted Airs, which looks at new ways of revealing and understanding particulate matter. youtu.be/R-cA4x8BkHw → Sonic Acts is growing: we seek a new Head of Marketing & Communications and a Manager to work closely with them. Help our team amplify the reach and visibility of Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 and other exciting activities. sonicacts.homerun.co

🌱 There are only a few days left to apply to Underexposed — an online mentorship programme by Sonic Acts supporting artists at the beginning of their career. Taking place from 24 April to 2 June, the programme welcomes ecologically focused artists, designers and collectives between the ages of 22 and 32, working with experimental sound or moving image in the Netherlands. → Apply now before 3 April: bit.ly/3LiHXTQ

🚢 On 19 May join Sonic Acts and FieldARTS at Ruigoord for a special day and evening of experimental sound art, lecture-performances, workshops, and brackish debauchery. At the edge of Petroleumhaven, on the banks of the IJ River is a logistical field bearing the future ecologies of Western Europe. Drawing together artistic and critical practices, this collaborative event presents a grounded and brackish encounter with a logistical infrastructure central to the global trade of raw materials, ongoing environmental injustice, dispossession, and financial violence. → Further info coming soon! Save the date: bit.ly/3TWPdXR

🚣 Our open call for The Lives of Deltas x Overexposed residency programme has been extended! At the delta, the power of industrialisation, digitalisation, food precarity, sea level rise, volatile weather conditions, and other effects of global warming can be felt like nowhere else. This year's artist-in-residence will respond to the key question underlying The Lives of Deltas programme: how can ecological approaches to pollution and pollination re-frame interspecies networks in the contemporary urban delta? This fully funded residency takes place both in Utrecht and online from 20 April to 20 May 2023. Including a fee of €2,500 and travel expenses within the Netherlands, this position offers artists a unique opportunity to expand their creative practice and work on assignments with a small group of MA students. For more information on this call please visit our website. → Apply before 24 March at t.co/ZwSW0ObVxt

🌱Applications are now open for Underexposed — an online mentorship programme supporting artists at the beginning of their career! Now in its third year, Underexposed has resulted in the successful mentorship of artists Angeliki Diakrousi and Yara Said in 2021, and Erik Peters and the artist duo Anguille Vannamei (Noam Youngrak Son and Sarah Fitterer) in 2022. Taking place from 24 April to 2 June, the programme welcomes ecologically focused artists, designers and collectives between the ages of 22 and 32, working with experimental sound or moving image in the Netherlands. → Apply before 3 April at bit.ly/3LiHXTQ

🐚 The interview with artist Marit Mihklepp 'If There Is Nowhere to Hold on to, Root into Yourself and Grow from There' is now available to read in full on our website. Last July, Mihklepp participated in the inaugural FieldARTS residency, collectively engaging with the shifting estuarine environments of Texel Island and Ijmuiden. In this conversation with Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou, she expands on her research into more-than-human entities, microbial bodies and extinct forms of communication. → Read the conversation: bit.ly/406RvGM

📡 Sonic Acts is looking for a new Head of Marketing & Communications! In this role you will lead the team in the promotion of Sonic Acts' activities, including the next Sonic Acts Biennial planned for February 2024, working closely with programmers, producers and partner organisations to increase visibility and reach. The ideal candidate holds a wide awareness of current developments in art and culture, has at least 3 years of relevant work experience, and is able to communicate in Dutch and English alike. → Apply by 26 February: https://bit.ly/3De0e02

🇪🇺 We are thrilled to announce that Re-Imagine Europe, a collaboration of fourteen interdisciplinary art organisations across Europe, has received support from the Creative Europe programme. Commencing in February 2023, the four-year transnational co-creation and circulation project, New Perspectives for Action, will build on the results of the 2017–2021 Re-Imagine Europe project. → Find out more: re-imagine-europe.eu

🎒To celebrate the launch of the educational platform Soundsweird, Sonic Acts invites youth workers, music professionals, educators and teachers to explore pedagogical approaches to making sound and experimental music with adolescents. Participants will learn more about the Soundsweird project, joining in two workshop sessions led by artists Andreas Kühne and Yara Said. The gathering culminates in a round table discussion moderated by Iva Jankovic, exploring the challenges faced in Amsterdam youth work today. Thursday 16 February 16:00 to 18:30 at Tempel Amsterdam (doors open 15:30) → Register to join: http://bit.ly/3wNiSbc