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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-inves…

Sonic Digest #004 gathers June’s signals: AI audio becoming infrastructure, archives under dataset pressure, listening through politics and the body, and sound taking shape in rooms, tools, objects, and small worlds. sonicfield.substack.com/p/sonic-digest…

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-hand…

Introducing the Listening Stack: Oída and GERM open a local-first loop between listening, cultivation, sonic memory, and re-listening, alongside AKOÚŌ, Earworm, and Akousmata. sonicfield.org/introducing-th…

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-archi…

SEMILLA V2 (@semilla_ai) by @hexorcismos turns the latent space of RAVE audio models into a VST3 performance surface. Seeds pull and repel particles; their motion changes the resynthesized sound in real time. sonicfield.org/semilla-v2-neu…

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-schaeff…

What happens when composition moves into a rule, dataset, score, or process? Craig Dworkin’s The Sound of Thinking goes deep into the systems behind conceptual music. sonicfield.org/the-sound-of-t…

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/disinformation…

Earworm, our listening memory for agents, has been updated to v0.2 🐚 Akousma records can now form a network of relations besides genealogy, plus portable provenance, richer audio metadata, and contract-pinned listening payloads. It also has better integration with AKOÚŌ harness.

AKOÚŌ is a listening harness for agentic workflows ✿ v0.6 is here with:  - /remember command for Earworm integration + sound-memory lineage - portable presets for combining the 14 listening modes - evidence-aware claims, machine-readable system contract and structured metadata

GPT-Live by @OpenAI 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-opena…

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-of-…

Aleph’s silent speech prototype uses under-chin ultrasound to read tongue movement and predict words without an audible voice. An early glimpse of voice interfaces where the computer is watching articulation, not listening to sound. By @alephneuro 🐚 sonicfield.org/silent-speech-…

Sonic Citizenship, @seismograf's July focus issue, listens to citizenship through audibility, governance, belonging, care, and sonic heritage. 🐚sonicfield.org/seismograf-son…

KC Collins’ Sonic UX, from MIT Press (@mitpress), brings sound into user experience research: audible interfaces, product perception, emotion, cognition, and sensory method. 🐚 sonicfield.org/sonic-ux-kc-co…

@maroofshittu thank u! fixed ✿

@sonic_field the github link in your website footer is broken

Earworm is public: an open-source protocol for persistent listening in agentic audio systems, giving sounds a memory of prompts, provenance, edits, analysis, and context. 🐚 sonicfield.org/earworm-persis…