Sonic Acts Podcast

Sonic Acts
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Sonic Acts Podcast

Sonic Acts is an interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Amsterdam.

  1. Sonic Trax: DJing with the Sonic Acts Archive

    JAN 21

    Sonic Trax: DJing with the Sonic Acts Archive

    What does it mean to DJ an archive? In the debut instalment of a new podcast series by Sonic Acts, junior curator Hannah Pezzack interviews Ruben Verkuylen (The Social Lover) about his DJ set from the 2024 Biennial, where he reimagined Sonic Acts archival material through turntablist techniques, sample pads, and effects. Recorded live at Het HEM and later broadcast by NTS Radio, his set drew upon a rich array of concerts, lectures, and conversations from 2003 to 2006 – a transformative era for electronic music, computing cultures, and digital art. Discussing his process, Verkuylen reflects on pivotal technological shifts, from the work of early computer art pioneer Lillian Schwartz to the artistic possibilities of AI in the present day. Featuring snippets from his deep dive, the podcast explores what it means to remix archives as a form of collage – reinterpreting and layering history, and connecting to contemporary sound practices. Sonic Trax: Remixing the History of Sound Art is a podcast by Sonic Acts exploring the institution's archive, which dates back to the mid-1990s. Examining creative approaches and interventions, the series reveals broader narratives about the lineage of sound art, tracing its evolution and enduring resonance. Sonic Acts Archive projects are supported by the Mondriaan Fonds and Cultuurloket DigitALL. Realised by Paradiso and Sonic Acts as part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. CREDITS Recorded at Erik's house, Amsterdam Sound design and editing by Tobias Withers SHOW NOTES The Social Lover on NTS Radio – 30 Years of Sonic Acts (Guest mix for Elena Colombi) https://www.nts.live/shows/elena-colombi/episodes/elena-colombi-28th-october-2024 The Social Lover – SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/the-social-lover Plafond 8 by Ekolali / Tala Drum Corps https://bakk.bandcamp.com/album/plafond-8 The Art of Programming – Sonic Acts Press (2001) https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/the-art-of-programming-sonic-acts-2001 The Art of Point • Pixel • Programming – Sonic Acts Press (2001) https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/the-art-of-pointpixelprogramming Synthetic Vocabulary by Raung Jagat Synthetic https://prakarsa.bandcamp.com/album/synthetic-vocabulary Plastic Symphonies by Siriosa's Post-Human Symphonic Choir https://prakarsa.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-symphonies Woodstock (1970 documentary film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_(film) TRANCE: Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 https://2024.sonicacts.com/programme/trance From In Gome.. Wisisi. Dari Gome Papua https://youtu.be/K48ajhogw5Y Jammer https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkwbCp6tQZHAJD1UQnQCZtg Venetian Snares https://venetiansnares.bandcamp.com/

    51 min
  2. Adriana Knouf – Some Fragments of Xenology

    08/29/2024

    Adriana Knouf – Some Fragments of Xenology

    Accompanied by her modular synthesiser, xenologist scholar and artist Adriana Knouf's presentation is proposed as a love letter. Eschewing the binary logic that pervades Western thinking, Knouf argues that all beings – trans*, cis, and xeno – are in a constant process of flux and transformation, always already more-than-human. From syringes of ​oestrogen to the trajectories of satellites orbiting the Earth, she investigates ongoing and future processes of ‘xenomogrifications’ – the becoming of something else. Following her talk, Adriana Knouf also sat down with Hannah Pezzack to talk about everything from Elon Musk and SpaceX, to fungi and making synth parts. Find it amongst Sonic Acts Podcast episode or here on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/sonicacts/adriana-knouf-interview → Explore more of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 programme at https://2024.sonicacts.com CREDITS Production: Sonic Acts Camera: Engage! TV Intro sound: Jessica Ekomane Intro design: Knoth & Renner with Anja Kaiser Part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, a collaboration between Paradiso and Sonic Acts (NL), funded by Creative Europe.

    57 min
  3. Imani Jacqueline Brown – Forest Islands of our Ecological Diaspora

    08/23/2024

    Imani Jacqueline Brown – Forest Islands of our Ecological Diaspora

    In Louisiana, artist, activist, writer, and architectural researcher Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers Black antebellum cemeteries – portals to recover and remember Afro-diasporic ecological praxes. Between 1820 and 1865, enslaved people were forced to clear Louisiana’s primordial forests to make way for the expansion of cane. They preserved small sections of forest where their loved ones were interred. These groves are both remnants of the erased bottomland hardwood forest and carefully stewarded microecologies – time capsules of lifeworlds that thrived against all odds in the back-a-plantations. There, enslaved people tended gardens and planted trees; organised dances and rituals; exchanged information and ideas; experimented with temporalities of freedom and plotted revolts. Today, their groves, which have survived generations of racial violence, industrial encroachment, and climate disaster, stand as the frontlines of more-than-human, intergenerational resistance to the continuum of extractivism. 24 Feb 2024 Amsterdam, Netherlands → Explore more of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 programme at 2024.sonicacts.com CREDITS Production: Sonic Acts Camera: Engage! TV Intro sound: Jessica Ekomane Intro design: Knoth & Renner with Anja Kaiser Realised by Paradiso & Sonic Acts as part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.

    43 min
  4. Astrida Neimanis, M Murphy – Discussion with Sissel Marie Tonn

    08/16/2024

    Astrida Neimanis, M Murphy – Discussion with Sissel Marie Tonn

    Following lectures from scholars Astrida Neimanis and M Murphy at Sonic Acts Biennial 2024, both were joined on the Symposium stage by artist Sissel Marie Tonn for a conversation addressing many topics, from pollution and violence, to language, creative methods, and direct action. Guided by questions from the audience, they also address indigenous knowledge and research, discussing how to negotiate one's position within Western science and university systems, as well as direct action methods. 24 Feb 2024 Amsterdam, Netherlands → Explore more of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 programme at https://2024.sonicacts.com CREDITS Production: Sonic Acts Camera: Engage! TV Intro sound: Jessica Ekomane Intro design: Knoth & Renner with Anja Kaiser Realised by Paradiso & Sonic Acts as part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. The visit of Astrida Neimanis was made possible by the International Visitors Programme of the Nieuwe Instituut with support from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    55 min
  5. Astrida Neimanis – Holdfast (Learning Feeling)

    08/16/2024

    Astrida Neimanis – Holdfast (Learning Feeling)

    Author and researcher Astrida Neimanis gives the opening lecture at Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 Symposium. In a time of extinction and climate catastrophe, how are we to feel? Feeling intensifies, but also wavers. Feeling's temporal container pulses, its membrane now more porous: the past seeps in, the future jumps the gun. Feeling anything swims in the wake of what once was, and is burdened by what will or will not remain tomorrow. How do species-strangers care for and hold one another? What do we touch when we touch another, and what touches us back? Meditating on various instances of multispecies contact, moving from the edge of the ocean to the scientist's workbench, this talk examines the curious relationships between language and feeling, presence and absence, solid ground and being untethered at sea. 24 Feb 2024 Amsterdam, Netherlands The lecture was followed by a Q&A session with scholar M Murphy, artist Sissel Marie Tonn, and audience members. → Explore more of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 programme at https://2024.sonicacts.com CREDITS Production: Sonic Acts Camera: Engage! TV Intro sound: Jessica Ekomane Intro design: Knoth & Renner with Anja Kaiser Realised by Paradiso & Sonic Acts as part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. The visit of Astrida Neimanis was made possible by the International Visitors Programme of the Nieuwe Instituut with support from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    47 min
  6. Juan Arturo García – A Minor Event in the History of Atomic Timekeeping

    08/09/2024

    Juan Arturo García – A Minor Event in the History of Atomic Timekeeping

    In this performative lecture, artist Juan Arturo García presents his research project about a nuclear reactor in Colombia. Radioactivity, earthquakes, and applications like geochronology are used as props to explore the paradoxes of trying to visualise inaccessible phenomena. García’s translation, or poetics of displacement, taps into the present cultural, mystical, and political consequences of technological deployments in Latin America. The lecture is followed by a Q&A session with Professor Alice Twemlow and audience members. 25 Feb 2024 Amsterdam, The Netherlands → Explore more of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 programme at https://2024.sonicacts.com CREDITS Production: Sonic Acts Camera: Engage! TV Intro sound: Jessica Ekomane Intro design: Knoth & Renner with Anja Kaiser Realised by Paradiso & Sonic Acts as part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.

    43 min
  7. Solveig Qu Suess – Holding Rivers, Becoming Mountains

    07/31/2024

    Solveig Qu Suess – Holding Rivers, Becoming Mountains

    Filmmaker and researcher Solveig Qu Suess traces how water, infrastructure, and documentary film intertwine. Her lecture follows the flood pulse of Southeast Asia's main river – the Mekong – since the 1990s. Construction of hydroelectric dams has caused drastic changes, reconfiguring downstream landscapes to accommodate for the expansion of plantations. Instead of being governed by the seasons, Suess tells us that the river's rhythms are now dictated by the energetic demands of distant cities. Along the banks of the Mekong, protagonists navigate a rogue river. A man measures the water every morning to monitor opaque activities from faraway dams, while a boat captain leaks information to environmental activists, and cascading rapids grow into mountains, creating both a border frontier and a new home. The lecture is followed by a Q&A session with Professor Alice Twemlow and audience members. 25 Feb 2024 Amsterdam, The Netherlands → Explore more of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 programme at https://2024.sonicacts.com

    45 min
  8. Margarida Mendes – Sensorial Ecologies

    07/31/2024

    Margarida Mendes – Sensorial Ecologies

    Researcher, educator, and curator Margarida Mendes’ lecture asks how our understanding of the environment is shaped on different scales from the way we sense, to social protocols and intergovernmental infrastructures. For Mendes, a collective sense of our surroundings is formed by practices and policies that mould our ecological pedagogies and politics, giving space (or not) to future worlds. Through her work she transmits an ontology of the sensory, starting with her experiments in listening to riverine sites that are undergoing transformation. Addressing acts of sensory co-emergence as non-linear and intertwined with ecosystems, she questions how the protocols of listening intercede with one’s relation to environmental grief, and what role the environmental humanities has in developing better ears towards the planet. The lecture is followed by a Q&A session with curator and researcher Rachael Rakes, as well as audience members. 24 Feb 2024 Amsterdam, The Netherlands → Explore more of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 programme at https://2024.sonicacts.com CREDITS Production: Sonic Acts Camera: Engage! TV Intro sound: Jessica Ekomane Intro design: Knoth & Renner with Anja Kaiser Realised by Paradiso & Sonic Acts as part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.

    56 min
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Sonic Acts is an interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Amsterdam.

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    2019 - 2025
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