Sounds Like

Infrasonica

Sounds Like is an audio series from Infrasonica, a digital platform dedicated to non-Western sonic arts and cultures.

Episodes

  1. 04/01/2025

    Episode 10 | Infrasonica

    Welcome back to the tenth and last episode of Sounds Like, Infrasonica’s audio show and latest venture. For this episode, we gathered around the team of Infrasonica, editor in chief Pablo José Ramírez, managing editor Sam Simon and project manager Eloisa Travaglini. Close to Infrasonica’s fifth birthday, we gather around a virtual table across countries and time–zones, just as we do every week, and we think of what Infrasonica is today: what does it mean to be a digital platform dedicated to sound in 2025? How does our definition of non Western evolve? What are the new challenges and projections? We hope to share with you a glimpse of Infrasonica’s journey. As always, thank you for listening.

    26 min

  2. 04/01/2025

    Episode 9 | Julian Abraham Togar

    Welcome back to Sounds Like. In the final episode with Julian Abraham ‘Togar’, he speaks about Indonesian concepts of balance and shares what’s behind his sound pieces, titled Malapetaka. Malapetaka is a Malay word that translates to calamity, misfortune, or disaster. It can be human or planetary, personal or general but it always signifies destruction, while its rhythms take us somewhere unexpected.

    14 min

  3. 04/01/2025

    Episode 8 | Julian Abraham Togar

    Welcome back to Sounds Like. In this second chapter of our conversation with Julian Abraham ‘Togar’. After exploring his experience among Yogyakarta and Amsterdam, Julian discusses the agency of sharing space and the experience of sound as the basis of his life and practice.

    17 min

  4. 04/01/2025

    Episode 7 | Julian Abraham Togar

    Welcome to Sounds Like. For this episode, we’re joined by our third and final guest, Julian Abraham ‘Togar’, a cross-disciplinary artist, musician, programer, and self-proclaimed “pseudo-scientist” based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. For Sounds Like, Julian responded to Infrasonica’s second editorial line, Audible Matter with three sound pieces under the collective title Malapetaka. We start the conversation navigating his youth in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and how it seeded his approach to sound. He then takes us through Amsterdam where he developed his jamming practice as a communal experience.

    22 min

  5. 04/01/2025

    Episode 6 | Mercedes Azpilicueta

    Welcome back to Sounds Like! In this final episode with Mercedes Azpilicueta, she discusses her most recent sound piece, Seized Atelier, a sonic search for her own voice amidst a new phase of unlearning.

    12 min

  6. 04/01/2025

    Episode 5 | Mercedes Azpilicueta

    Welcome back to Sounds Like! In the second episode dedicated to Mercedes Azpilicueta, we get to the foundations of her practice and examine voicing as a necessary act of expression.

    16 min

  7. 04/01/2025

    Episode 4 | Mercedes Azpilicueta

    Welcome to Sounds Like! In episode 4, we welcome Mercedes Azpilicueta, a visual and performance artist from Buenos Aires, who calls Amsterdam home.For Sounds Like, we asked Mercedes to create a sound piece responding to the theme Voicing Abstraction, which explores the potentialities inherent in the poetics of spoken language, asking: is it possible to name a shapeless thing? Mercedes responded with her piece Seized Atelier. In the first chapter of our conversation, Mercedes walks us through her physical places of enunciation – Argentina and the Netherlands – as well as her conceptual ones, together with Pablo José Ramírez.

    14 min

  8. 03/31/2025

    Episode 3 | Vibeke Mascini

    Welcome back to Sounds Like! In the third and closing chapter dedicated to artist Vibeke Mascini, she takes us into her speculative writing practice and how it functions differently than her sound work, before clueing us into her ongoing research on reggaeton and on the concept of the lullaby.

    19 min

  9. 03/31/2025

    Episode 2 | Vibeke Mascini

    Welcome back to Sounds Like! For Episode 2, Vibeke Mascini picks up the conversation delving into her sound works commissioned for Sounds Like, Jolt, A Long Distance Lullaby, challenging the idea of sonic abstraction. The three sound tracks originate in an installation project shown at PAKT, Amsterdam and weave into the idea of a lullaby, a tender, soothing sonic practice, this time dedicated to an unexpected listener.

    17 min

  10. 03/31/2025

    Episode 1 | Vibeke Mascini

    Welcome to Sounds Like! Today we're joined by our first guest, visual artist Vibeke Mascini in conversation with curator and editor in chief of Infrasonica Pablo José Ramírez.We commissioned Vibeke to create a sound piece responding to the concept of Sonic Realism, one of Infrasonica’s editorial lines, which explores the possibilities of sound beyond the audible. Vibeke responded with the sound piece Jolt, A Long Distance Lullaby, along with sound tracks part one of her latest installation works, weaving into a sound experience that will follow us along the conversation. In this first episode, we dive into her artistic approach, which utilizes unconventional energy sources to explore the complex relationship between source and user, constructing installations where memory and sensorial experiences meld with energy storage systems.

    17 min
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About

Sounds Like is an audio series from Infrasonica, a digital platform dedicated to non-Western sonic arts and cultures.

Information

  • Creator
    Infrasonica
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Infrasonica
  • Show Website
    Sounds Like