Sonic Acts
Interdisciplinary arts organisation exploring sound, art, and ecology through commissions, residencies, publications and the Sonic Acts Biennial.
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- Sep 29, 2026
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Yazan Khalili, 'Radio Alhara, a Communal Media' (opens the original)
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Artist, researcher, and cultural activist Yazan Khalili presents the lecture about Radio Alhara, but his talk primarily focuses on cultural structures and organisations – institutional and other – how they are built, funded, maintained, managed, etc. Drawing on his role as co-founder of this Palestine-based radio station – and his artistic practice in which he examines institutions as politicised entities – he talks about how digital radio can function as a structure of cultural production. What
Ayesha Hameed & Aimée Theriot, Ex Aqua (opens the original)
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Ex Aqua is a live improvisational performance by theorist and poet Ayesha Hameed and musician Aimée Theriot. Their piece invites the audience into what Palestinian artist Bint Mbareh calls ‘aggressive listening’, exploring the concept of ‘exaqua’ – a term coined by poet M. NourbeSe Philip in Zong! to describe a watery equivalent of exhumation, or the act of reclaiming from the earth. Through poetry and sound, this reclamation process splinters and disperses, bearing witness to destruction on sca
An Endless Note: Sarah Davachi Interviewed by Hannah Pezzack (opens the original)
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Steve Goodman (Kode9), 'Sonic Warfare 2026' (opens the original)
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Drawing from his forthcoming text Notes on the Third Ear (to be published by Urbanomic in 2026), musician, artist, and theorist Steve Goodman (Kode9) updates latent themes from his influential book Sonic Warfare to reflect on the politics of vibration within, poised upon, and beyond thresholds of audibility. From sonic booms and drone warfare to acoustic detection and machine listening, Goodman traces an evolving ‘sonic ecology of fear’ in which sound becomes entangled with anticipation, predict
Cancer is a Weather System: An Essay by Sarah Rara (Lucky Dragons) (opens the original)
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