sound fields

🌬️ A Library Out of Air is now open at @hearsayfestival ! If you’re in Kilfinane, come inside Hartnetts shop, take a blank postcard and share (or draw!) a radio memory - then slip it into the wooden box… 💌 In the window you can glimpse some of the memories shared so far. What sounds have left their traces in you? What radio is planted in your imagination? Watch this space for a new collaboration with @soundfieldsjournal coming soon too…

Resonate friends! About half this stack was sold yesterday, get yours today before they’re gone! (At the AIR table- special Resonate price of $20!)

You can now read @skk_wire 's brilliant essay AI Zombies in the Archives online! Sarah Kate Kramer is an award-winning audio producer, story editor, writer, and an adjunct journalism professor at NYU. She produces audio diaries, historical documentaries, audio tours, the occasional essay, and listening events. She loves archival tape. We still have a short stack of print copies available for online order at the link in our bio. And if you're at Resonate this weekend, you can find them in person at the AIR table.

Expect plenty of conversations - on and off stage - at this year’s XMTR Audio Arts Festival. Accessible Sounds Talk + demo with musician/producer David Littlefair, exploring creative ways to make audio with autistic and access-needs communities. Fri 26 Sept 3.30-4.30pm | Horse & Groom Sound Fields @soundfieldsjournal @skk_wire @kalli.pearl.anderson UK launch + listen of Sound Fields Issue 2: Archives — with Sarah Kate Kramer + editor Kalli Anderson on audio archives, AI + resurrecting voices. What can our ears hear that machines can’t? Fri 6-7pm | Horse & Groom Shut Your Eyes To Art A live blindfolded radio talk show — strangers meet with no set topic. With sound artist + Resonance FM co-founder Ed Baxter. Sat 10-11am | Unit 2 Creative Oral History @emilycandela @ma.hooper1 @inkslingersltd How can oral history recordings sing? Emily Candela (Slag Speaks), Mary Hooper (Fisherman’s Tales) + Leona Fensome (Inkslingers) share their work + discuss collaborating with museums, institutions + communities. Sat 10-11.30am | Royal Victoria Power & Resistance Within - and Without - The Podcasting Industrial Complex @scenerystudiosltd Long table with audio producer Lina Prestwood — exploring power, resistance + resilience, with inspiration from short audio pieces. Sat 2-3.15pm | Royal Victoria Sound Anatomy @AxelKacoutie Audio artist + poet Axel Kacoutié on the logic + magic of world-building in selected works inc. How to Remember, Empire City, WHITE NOISE + a new piece. Sat 3.45 - 4:45pm | Horse & Groom Gender, Omission & Audio Ethics @isobel_andersonnn @gasciaouzounian Whose voices are included and excluded? Musician/sound artist Isobel Anderson (@girlstwiddlingknobs ) + violinist/sonic theorist Gascia Ouzounian explore through gender + experimental composition. Sun 1-2pm | Electro Studios All: Open to Festival Pass Holders Only Get your weekend/day pass 🎟️xmtr.fm/festival 📻 @xmtr.fm Audio Arts Festival is a 3 day immersion into creative audio + sonic storytelling. A gathering to inspire and connect. From Fri 26 to Sun 28 Sept 2025, in venues across St Leonards-on-Sea. Brought to you by @SOCIALBRDCSTS .

4 more days! Sound Fields issue 2 - The Archives Issue- launches Friday September 19. Thanks to the artistic vision and hard work of @dragon_of_the_yeast @chu.cumber and @resonancearchive for bringing this beautiful book to life. And thanks to contributors @ovalofsand @m__tina @skk_wire @james_barrs_ @socialbrdcsts … And issue editors @audiosand @sayrequevedo @kalli.pearl.anderson With support from @uniondocs @transomradio and more than 100 members of the global audio documentary community. Printed by @fireballprints with dust jacket covers by @luckyrisograph ✨ Video description : hand holding and flipping through book with Violet and gold cover white background - Sound Fields issue 2.

Little sneak peak… Wait till you see this beauty in color!! Coming Sept 19. Link in bio for NYC launch party tickets.

Join Sound Fields for a celebration, live discussion and audio activation of the Archives issue. From AI zombies in the archives, to Whatsapp voice memos as archival material, to transforming Black archives into tools for navigating the future, join us as we explore the intersection between audio documentary and the archive. Hosted by Chenjerai Kumanyika and Sandhya Dirks and featuring issue 2 contributors Martina Abrahams Ilunga, Sarah Kate Kramer and Tasha Sandoval. Discussion at 7:30 pm. Party to follow! Note - if you purchased the issue during the presale you can pick it up early at the party! Link in bio for tickets. Image description: screenshot video of the event information with same info as above and celebratory music.

Coming Sept 2025…. Issue no.2: The Archives Issue Save the Date(s): NYC launch Fri Sept 19 @uniondocs 7 pm UK launch Fri Sept 26 @xmtr.fm fest Stay tune for details and RSVP link. Still time to pre-order at our pre-launch price. Link in bio. Image description: Text that says Sound Fields vol. 2 on green background with graphic elements.

Coming Sept 2025…. Issue no.2: The Archives Issue Save the Date(s): NYC launch Fri Sept 19 @uniondocs 7 pm UK launch Fri Sept 26 @xmtr.fm fest Stay tune for details and RSVP link. Still time to pre-order at our pre-launch price. Link in bio. Image description: Text that says Sound Fields vol. 2 on green background with graphic elements.

Coming Sept 2025…. Issue no.2: The Archives Issue Save the Date(s): NYC launch Fri Sept 19 @uniondocs 7 pm UK launch Fri Sept 26 @xmtr.fm fest Stay tune for details and RSVP link. Still time to pre-order at our pre-launch price. Link in bio. Image description: Text that says Sound Fields vol. 2 on green background with graphic elements.

We’re thrilled to announced some of our contributors for The Archives issue..  We can’t wait for you to read their work! In this issue, we feature insights on the intersection of audio documentary and the archive from Sarah Kramer, Martina Abrahams Ilunga, Lucia Scazzocchio, Tasha Sandoval, and James Barrs.  Follow the link in our bio to pre-order Issue 2 now. *CORRECTION* Tasha Sandoval is an Associate Producer at Futuro Media, and she also produces the podcast Writing Latinos for Public Books. [Image Description: a collage of all contributors’ headshots with the text “meet our contributors” followed by a slideshow of each contributor and a bio. Contributors names are Sarah Kramer, Martina Abrahams Ilunga, Lucia Scazzocchio, Tasha Sandoval, and James Barrs. ]

New post alert! Following their Radio Thrifting presentation at On Air Fest and in anticipation of our forthcoming Archives Issue, Sound Fields editor Kalli Anderson, Radiowright story editor @bartona104 and Howard University Professor Sonja D. Williams bring us this annotated playlist of inventive vintage audio from the 1930s to 1970s. Link in stories and bio.