Category: Music

A Winter Playlist of Acousmatic music along with some brief history and definitions

A descent into the coded unknown: Morose Code fractures the audible world into uncanny aural riddles, while Hotel opens a shadowed door into a space where noise becomes dread made audible. Two works, two thresholds—each demanding you listen beyond the surface.

An imaginal descent and a psychic transmission: Baiocchi’s Theta unravels the secret negotiations between life and entropy, while Mason’s tribute to Schaeffer reconnects acousmatic listening to its primal roots. Both works ask the listener to slow down, attune, and inhabit sound as a living terrain. The crossing, once entered, is hard to leave.

Last May I did a 52 minute interview on the wonderful Rejected Religion podcast. Stephanie Shea was kind enough to ask me on so I could introduce this music to her audience and share my thoughts and suggestions on how to listen to it. It’s geared to be …

Paul Turner’s Four Walks in Three Parks explores shifting sonic strata, high strangeness, and imaginal listening in this latest Acousmatic Crossings installment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xwXe7zCRjY&t=4239s For the series third live diffusion, we feature the music of Ali Balighi and Amanda Stuart. Ali Balighi’s piece, Electropoem No. 11 is the eleventh piece of a 13 part Acousmatic sound cycle. As ex …

Enter the imaginal realm of sound with Murmuri’s “I Like the Cold Aesthetic.” A meditation in motion—where form, texture, and silence blur into transformation. Listen closely, and let the Acousmatic reveal what lies beyond the visible.

In Visitation, Jean Patier leads listeners through sonic ruins where memory, time, and imagination intertwine. Each piece unfolds like a meditative walk through forgotten sanctuaries, where sound becomes scripture and silence breathes. Patier’s lush electro-acoustic textures blur the boundaries between the seen and the heard, the past and the becoming. This is music as contemplation—an aural pilgrimage toward the sea of eternity.

Experience the second Acousmatic Crossings live diffusion featuring Matt Gender’s explosive Scintillation and Valentin Sismann’s intimate, meditative Morphame.

Dive into the raw, gritty fusion of acousmatic mystery and trance-like intensity, where polyrhythmic percussion and searing, bone-rattling electronic tones collide in a sonic inferno. This Camouflage Trance creation strips away visual origins, unleashing a wild, immersive storm that hits with unrelenting force. Check it out and brace for the impact!

A non-space of entropic delights—Deliverance offers a listening experience shaped by imagination, sensation, and the apophatic limits of language. It is at once minimal and infinite, a sonic passage that belongs to no one and to each listener alone.

Paul Beaudoin’s ein kleines klangportrait is a tightly woven sonic miniature, where the familiar sounds of piano and percussion are extended and entangled through tape to form a restless “hyper-instrument.” Faruk Mehić’s ePrelude op. 18 no. 3 offers a contrasting sense of space and pace. Flowing with a restrained elegance, the piece beckons close listening through finely shaped dynamics and spectral detail.

This Acousmatic Crossings installment brings together plastov’s Omega Amoeba and Jiajing Zhao’s Back to the Ocean—two pieces shaped by paradox. Each begins in quiet and seeming inertia yet reveals immersive sound worlds teeming with subtle morphologies. What first appears static becomes animate; what feels empty begins to overflow. The minimal becomes maximal—if you’re willing to stay with it. Headphones required. So is surrender.

A haunting soundwork by Rafael Ramirez using broken vinyl, turntablism, and memory to explore loss, hauntology, and imaginal worlds of sonic mourning.

It’s been a very busy Summer here in Acousmatic Crossings land so we are a little late in presenting this video—but better late… as they say! On June 4th, 2025 we had out first (of hopefully many) live Acousmatic music diffusions featuring artists that …

What if music wasn’t made, but revealed? What if the earth’s magnetic breath or the mingling of East and West across the astral plane whispered secrets only the most generous ears could hear? In this latest Acousmatic Crossings installation, Amanda Stuart and Andre Perim invite us to the kind of cocktail party where thunder becomes code, whistlers become wisdom, and the hourglass of perception flips. Presence is requested—resonance is required.

Sirius returns with a vengeance, with a chorus of fellow outlaws bent on turning the ghost of the 1990s into an electro-psychedelic séance for today’s burned-out attention span.

Forged from live electronic improvisation, this story-sonic hybrid drifts into deep space and deeper states of consciousness. As the crew enters torpor, reality warps, perception fractures, and sound becomes the medium of transmutation. This is speculative audio-fiction at the edge of signal and dream—where every frequency might just open a portal.

A meditation on duality, movement, and perception in sound—exploring new Acousmatic works by Philippe Neau and Darius Gylys in vibrant, shifting states.

From Ali Balighi’s microtonal metapsychosis to Unearth Noise’s visionary Earth engines, these sonic works traverse thresholds—fractal, fluid, and imaginal. Music here is not heard but inhabited: a choreography of becoming, where meaning stirs in silence and sound reveals hidden worlds.

Cyberspace Paradox is an immersive sonic exploration of our evolving relationship with technology, blurring the lines between organic and synthetic sound

Imaginal Horizons in Sound: Valentin Sismann & Enrico Dorigatti Weave Acousmatic Alchemy & Symbolic Sonic Journeys.

On June 4th, we gather—not just to listen, but to cross over. Acousmatic Crossings presents a live diffusion with Paul Dolden & Leonie Roessler. Sounds unmoor. Shapes emerge. Imagination takes flight. Zoom. 2pm CST. Free & open to all.

Step into a sonic realm where resonance shapes reality, sculpting gleaming architectures from shadow. Sound becomes creation—walk the path.

Echoes of Sound and Silence: Exploring Symbol, Childhood, and the Power of Active Listening Through Acousmatic Composition

Discover our new series on experimental sound art plus Jane Hudson’s mystical geometric paintings

Paul Dolden’s Beyond the Walls of Jericho: A Sonic Incantation, Shattering Boundaries and Collapsing Walls in a Cataclysm of Sound

A mystical exploration of music’s ability to access the ‘Earth of Light’ through Acousmatic sound, connecting the soul’s yearning with its divine origin beyond time.

Haunting and intense, ‘Dissociations’ expresses the grief, rage, and dissonance of living with social fragmentation and personal loss. Zinman’s free jazz piano compositions & Crane’s drumming are combined here with mordant poetry that dissects surveillance culture and the commodification of healing.

What dark forces lurked in the depths before creation? This meditation inspired by indie band the Soft Hearted Scientists ponders what the biblical Deity meant to conceal.