Sonic Acts

Announcing the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, ‘Melted for Love’! 📍 Amsterdam | 📷 5 Feb – 29 Mar 80+ events, 200+ artists, 15+ venues. Reimagining home as a site of love, care & belonging. Learn more → 2026.sonicacts.com #SonicActsBiennial2026 #MeltedForLove

Just as every house has its walls and roof, we also built a programme outline that lays the foundation for the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, 'Melted for Love'. Read more → 2026.sonicacts.com Visual identity: Anja Kaiser with Knoth & Renner Sound: Aho Ssan & KMRU Video: Nelly Nakahara Fonts: Bazaine (British Standard Type), Limpet (Jung-Lee Type Foundry) #SonicActsBiennial2026 #MeltedForLove

Are you an early-career, NL-based artist (aged 32 or younger) ready to develop a bold new project? Then submit your proposal to 🌱 SPRINGS 🌱 – a new commissioning opportunity for the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026! Apply & find out more: bit.ly/42WF16L

📢 Sonic Acts is seeking interns! 📢 Join us ahead of the 2026 Biennial and gain hands-on learning experience in realising a major art, sound, and technology programme. Learn more & apply: sonicacts.homerun.co

🦋 Let’s stay in touch! We’re going to keep you posted over on Bluesky! 🦋   bsky.app/profile/sonica… 📷: Cocky Eek, ‘Muddy Muddy Mystery Tour’, 2024. Photo by Bora Şekerci.

Introducing our new podcast series! 🎧 Sonic Trax explores sound art history through Sonic Acts’ archive. For the debut episode, The Social Lover remixes 2003–2006 festival recordings, uncovering the work of the groundbreaking computer artist Lillian Schwartz, music by Venetian Snares, UK grime pioneer Jammer, and much more. Listen now: bit.ly/3Wo0N0z

The special double issue of Sonic Acts’ magazine is now available for pre-order! Spanning 300 pages, 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘦𝘴 #7 offers a rich collection of essays, interviews, and visual contributions, exploring themes of listening and revealing the unseen 👁️👂 bit.ly/3Br5Ar8

Explore our redesigned shop for books, zines, vinyl, & more – from early 2000s gems to 2024's vinyl record 'The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas' by Lukas De Clerk. Dive into sound, art, & ecology, plus enjoy up to 30% off in our year-end sale until 18 December! 📚🎶✨ shop.sonicacts.com

Still searching for the perfect gift? 🎁 Sonic Acts Press is having an end of year sale until 18 December! Enjoy a discount on a wide selection of books, magazines, and music. Shop now at shop.sonicacts.com

We are pleased to share that our educational collaboration with the arts organisations A4 in Bratislava and @kontejner_org in Zagreb, Sound Experiments, has been renewed for another 3 years! Since 2021, we have explored various ways of teaching sound and music to young people. In the context of the EU’s Erasmus+ programme to support youth education, its main goal is to engage and empower children, teens and young adults, including those with limited access to arts in their environment. 💡 Find out more about our plans for 2025–2027 at sonicacts.com/news/sound-exp…

There's one week left to apply for our Producer vacancy! We are looking for a colleague based near Amsterdam with at least three years of experience in an event production role, especially realising art exhibitions, who can communicate in both Dutch and English. → Submit your cover letter and CV via sonicacts.homerun.co by 23:59 on Monday 2 December 📨

Join us at @FramerFramed for an artist talk by Susanne Kriemann on Tuesday 26 November at 18:00 h. The presentation focuses on the nuclear legacy of France's Limousin region, where plants serve as living archives of radioactive memory ☢️🌱 Register for free at bit.ly/4eIRTkS

This Sunday, 24 Nov, 12:00–16:00, find us at the DRUK book fair at @ParadisoAdam! Discover our books, records, and more at the Sonic Acts Press table. Don’t miss Adriana Knouf @zeitkunst at 15:00 in the public programme hosted by Kosmos, talking about speculative fiction, subversive zines, and print activism, expanding on themes from her essay ‘Fragments of Xenology’ (featured in Ecoes #6). Tickets for the fair are €3.50 via Paradiso paradiso.nl/programma/druk…

On 6 & 7 November, Sonic Acts took Vertical Cinema to Scanorama film festival in Vilnius, one of Lithuania’s premiere cultural events, to celebrate a decade of cinematic innovation. Launched by Sonic Acts in 2014 with other European cultural institutions, Vertical Cinema is an international collaboration showcasing films crafted for a 35mm projector that is rotated to screen vertical images. The selection of films for Scanorama 2024 included commissioned works by Joost Rekveld, HC Gilje, Susan Schuppli, Karl Lemieux, Lukas Marxt, Telcosystems & Makino Takashi, Billy Roisz & Dieter Kovacic, Manuel Knapp, Johann Lurf, Esther Urlus, and Rosa Menkman. 🎞️📷Look back at our photos on Flickr flic.kr/s/aHBqjBRA7

The Insurgent Learning Workshop wrapped up on 2 November with 'Pedagogy of the Surveilled' – an installation and interactive performance at Singelkerk in Amsterdam. Artists Marshall Trammell & Ghenwa noiré spent a month guiding participants through collective practices meant to express personal archives of migration, uncovering sonic histories from the Levant and postcolonial North Africa. 📸 Browse through our photos from the event, starting with a rehearsal and the opening of the recorded installation, followed by the the collective performance. flickr.com/photos/sonicac…

Celebrating 10 Years of Vertical Cinema! 📽️✨ Sonic Acts’ pioneering project makes its way to Vilnius – Join us at the prestigious Scanorama film festival this Wednesday & Thursday, 18:30–19:30, at Kablys+Kultūra. Purchase tickets (if you are in Vilnius): bit.ly/3CfLb8t

Listen back to The Social Lover's hybrid DJ set, '30 Years of Sonic Acts: From Booting Up to Fully Installed', on @NTSlive! This mix dives into the Sonic Acts archive, blending performances, lectures, and conversations from 2003–2006 – a key era for electronic music and digital art. Many thanks to @ElenaColombi for hosting the show on their residency slot 📻 bit.ly/3YGxTKI

Sonic Acts is excited to announce Jurel Bakker, Joseph Rouhana, and Hanchen Zhang as the 2024 Underexposed Mentorship Programme participants! Starting in November, these emerging artists will engage in weekly coaching sessions with our team of curators, refining their conceptual writing and presentation skills. Find out more about them at sonicacts.com/news/selection… & stay tuned for further updates.

We’re thrilled to announce the world premiere of Lukas Marxt & Vanja Smiljanić’s feature documentary ‘AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB, or: Looking for reflections in the toxic field of plenty’ at Viennale film festival in Vienna, Austria. Produced by Sonic Acts, the film explores environmental devastation and historical trauma in the American West, departing from nuclear testing in Salton Sea. Catch it this Friday at Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus or Saturday at Filmmuseum! #viennale #documentaryfilm #environmentaljustice #filmFestival