Editor in Chief: Mirna Belina
Copy Editor: Jason Coburn
Design: Rafaela Dražić
135 pp., 300 g, 16.5 x 23.5 cm, English, April 2021
ISSN: 2772-5685

The first issue of Ecoes brings together artists that focus on mining, microplastics, the origins of the blues from an Indigenous perspective that sees humans as entangled with the environment, Cold War toxic legacies and depleted uranium, invasive species and deadly clouds in one of the epicentres of extractivist operations in the Russian Arctic. Among the contributors, Sissel Tonn shares her thoughts on immunology, sentinel species, scales, and inequality in an interview about her audio walk Plastic Hypersea commissioned by Sonic Acts. The six residency recipients of OVEREXPOSED deliberate on various spatial and temporal scales of pollution, while the pieces in Night Air respond to myths that hold foul air from decaying organic matter as causing illness. 

About Ecoes Magazine

Ecoes is a magazine about sound art, technology, and ecology, published by Sonic Acts. A portmanteau of ‘ecology’ and ‘echoes’, it is rooted in environmental concerns and investigates how auditory practices shape our understanding of contemporary worlds — human and nonhuman. Through critical essays, artistic contributions, and interviews, each issue amplifies alternative ways of sensing, interpreting, and intervening in a rapidly changing planet.

Content

Introduction – Mirna Belina

Unearth – Anika Schwarzlose, Brian D. Mckenna

Sissel Marie Tonn: Sensitivity To Pollution – Interview by Stefan Wharton

Melt: Melting Time — Margarita Osipian

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi: But It Was There For The Taking – Margarita Osipian

Devin Hentz: Situating Fashion – Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou, Pim Sem Benjamin

Angela Chan: Communal Climate Knowledges – Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou

Ameneh Solati: Challenging Architecture – Mirna Belina

Arjuna Neuman: Residence Time – Mirna Belina

For Lula, Mississippi – Arjuna Neuman

Sarah Kanouse: Spotting Radioactive Hot Spots – Interview by Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou

Shifting Kind – Carson Fisk-Vittori

Worlding Weird Worlds – Rosa Whiteley