The hottest Sound art Substack posts right now

Hinternet Production Labs has premiered a new audioplay called "Under the Ribcage."
The piece reconstructs a conversation between researcher Pippy Genovese and the primitive chatbot Sempitern JSR-2050, raising questions about authorship and whether hidden motives are at play.
This release continues the duo's "narrative ambient" work after a well-received previous piece, and it's available through a subscription model with limited free access.

A generative model trained on many personal photos can show an emergent, proto-perception that feels similar to natural intelligence. Its glitches and odd outputs reveal how representations form.
Keeping and animating the model’s discarded glitches and textures can produce slow, hypnotic audiovisual landscapes that make the medium’s limits and character visible. These pieces are being shared as work-in-progress performances rather than immediate online releases.
The project asks us to re-see recent technological and artistic advances amid cultural fatigue, political distrust, and loneliness, warning that mass-produced, shallow content can desensitize us. It calls for renewed intention and appreciation of how remarkable the past few years have been.

Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) started in the 1960s and aimed to create music for everyone, breaking free from traditional rules and ideas.
Their work involved both improvisation and audience participation, showing a desire to push boundaries and create a communal music experience.
Over time, MEV's approach evolved, moving from collective experimentation to individual performances, but they still sought to maintain a sense of political and artistic freedom.

Live coding is when artists use code to make music and visuals in real time. This creates a unique experience where audiences can see how the music is built as it happens.
Algoraves offer a new way of experiencing electronic music, drawing audiences into the creative process. This setting allows for interaction and a feeling of connection between coders and the audience.
Making music with code can challenge traditional music rules. Artists can experiment and create new sounds that aren't limited to typical instruments, leading to innovative musical expressions.

Bani Haykal's work explores human-machine intimacies through interfaces, poetry, and sound, using a mechanical keyboard to encrypt text into languages like Jawi and MIDI values, creating encoded poetry and sound work.
The encryption process in Bani's work is influenced by historical instances like the crypto-Muslim practice during the Spanish Inquisition, showcasing how encryption embodies privacy and secrecy in different cultures.
Bani's exploration of intimacy with devices like mechanical keyboards goes beyond physical proximity to consider transformation and blending, reflecting on how human-machine relationships impact us and our environments.

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Heavenly thinking, focused on utopian goals, influences both religious beliefs and modern technological advancements.
The concept of Heaven is portrayed as a virtual space, always just beyond reach but never truly attainable in the present.
The project WHOLEEARTHBELOWME explores contemporary examples of Heavenly thinking through a sound piece that includes AI voices and meditational sounds.