Jodi Dean

Gregory Sholette

William L. Fox

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Andreas Kühne

Lukáš Likavčan

Susanne M. Winterling

Arie Altena

Clausthome

Mārtiņš Ratniks

Flavia Dzodan

Rana Hamadeh

The Living and The Dead Ensemble

The Rodina

Sasha Litvintseva

Beny Wagner

Stoffel Debuysere

Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa

Filipa César

Ephraim Asili

Polina Medvedeva

Ana Vaz

Jennifer Walshe

Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou

This book draws from our quarter-of-a-century festival ‘celebration’, but it is not dedicated to ‘looking back’ on the way Sonic Acts, along with the world, has changed. Rather, it is devoted to finding ways of confronting and surviving the brutality of now. It contains a rare selection of critical essays on contemporary political and climate realities, colonial legacies of European projects, and racial and gender biases of contemporary technologies. Visual and textual contributions highlight an evocative approach to writing, merging field notes and memoir, to accurately capture the processes of making work fuelled by research. It also contains tender contributions that embed modes of discourse within the visual, in order to gauge the complexities and interconnections of this crisis and re-imagine a different reality.

Hereafter

George Dyson

David Edgerton

Alfred Jarry

Enda Duffy

Pauline Oliveros

Siegfried Zielinski

Mark Fell

Timothy Druckrey

Thomas W. Patteson

Joel Ryan

Catherine Christer Hennix

Robin Hayward

Hilary Jeffery

Keith Fullerton Whitman

Gilles Aubry

Hilel Schwartz

Omar Muñoz-Cremers

Critical essays and interviews in this volume reveal the significance and intricacies of time and particularly how we experience it. Time is a complex and ambiguous concept. Relativity theorists and quantum mechanics have tinkered with the seemingly unambiguous concept of time since the beginning of the previous century. Art, film, and music make abstract notions of time tangible and comprehensible, and manipulate how we experience it. The ongoing development and implementation of technology constantly challenge, change and undermine our perception of time. This book is, in a sense, a homage to the human experience of time. One half of this anthology consists of articles and essays dealing with conceptions and imaginings of time in the fields of technology, culture and literature. The other half, collects interviews, with composers and performing musicians, concerning their intimate knowledge of working with time.

Travelling Time 

Mirna Belina

Lucas van der Velden

Inspired by geosciences, Sonic Acts zooms in on planet Earth. Fundamental to 'The Geological Imagination' is the thesis that we live in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Human activity has irreversibly changed the composition of the atmosphere, the oceans, and even the Earth's crust. Humanity has become a geological force. Consequently, the perspective has shifted from the human at the centre of the world to the forces that act on timescales beyond the conceivable. The way we see the world, understand the systems and processes of nature, and our intentions and interactions with the planet are central to this book.

The Geologic Imagination

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