Channel: Music

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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