Editors: Femke Herregraven, Arthur Roeloffzen
Copy Editor: LGOC, Amsterdam
Design: Femke Herregraven, Arthur Roeloffzen
64 pp., 150 g, 17 x 24 cm, English, February 2016
ISBN: 9789082321616

Published on the occasion of the inaugural Sonic Acts Academy, this zine-style publication highlights artistic practices as vital to understanding the complexities of our contemporary world. The wide range of works challenge the sterile forms of knowledge presentations by celebrating the histories, textures, and patterns of hands-on and intuitive working methods. The strong visual character of the zine grounds the texts, essays, and manifestos firmly into the visual and avoids re-framing artistic research practices within a scientific vernacular or methodology. With an experimental typographical approach and stripped of traditional formalities, the zine offers a loud, deconstructed experience of artistic research strategies and processes.

Contents

Introduction – Okkyung Lee

Coal – BJ Nilsen

‘Additional Tones’ Workbook IV – Maryanne Amacher Archive

The Ideophone – Dick Raaijmakers, Thomas Ankersmit

Granular Synthesis - The Sound of Sand – Susan Schuppli

The Fluid Outside: The 3D Additivist Manifesto – #Additivism

Manifesto – Ana Vaz

Coyote 0 – Tristan Bera, Nuno Da Luz, Elida Høeg, Clémence Seurat, and Ana Vaz

Sally-Jane Norman – Louis Henderson

Engram of Returning – Daïchi Saïto

Thinking of Redevelopment as a Stage of Urban Amnesia Is a Strategic Mistake – Anton Kats

Live Performance as a Zen Experience – Jos Smolders

Don’t Start! (A Few Notes on the Process of Creation) — Frans de Waard

Xenolistening: Skhismasonic Growing Pains – M.E.S.H.

Visual Contribution – Anna Mikkola

Visual Contribution – Raphael Vanoli

Visual Contribution – Ewa Justka