Sonic Acts
@sonicacts.bsky.social
Sonic Acts is an interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Amsterdam.
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Sonic Acts Biennial, 'Melted for Love' → 5 Feb–29 Mar 2026
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Sonic Acts Biennial, 'Melted for Love' → 5 Feb–29 Mar 2026
Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, ‘Melted for Love’ is beginning to take shape, and the first events and tickets are now live. Dive in 👉 2026.sonicacts.com/programme
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, ‘Melted for Love’ is beginning to take shape, and the first events and tickets are now live. Dive in 👉 2026.sonicacts.com/programme
The first artists of Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, ‘Melted for Love’ are here! 80+ events, 15+ venues, 2 months in Amsterdam (5 February –29 March) – with many more artists still to come. See who is joining → 2026.sonicacts.com/news/meet-th...
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The first artists of Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, ‘Melted for Love’ are here! 80+ events, 15+ venues, 2 months in Amsterdam (5 February –29 March) – with many more artists still to come. See who is joining → 2026.sonicacts.com/news/meet-th...
Just as every house has its walls and roof, we also built a programme outline that lays the foundation for the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, 'Melted for Love'.
Read more → 2026.sonicacts.com
Visual identity: Anja Kaiser with Knoth & Renner
Sound: @ahossan.bsky.social & KMRU
Video: Nelly Nakahara
Read more → 2026.sonicacts.com
Visual identity: Anja Kaiser with Knoth & Renner
Sound: @ahossan.bsky.social & KMRU
Video: Nelly Nakahara
October 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Just as every house has its walls and roof, we also built a programme outline that lays the foundation for the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, 'Melted for Love'.
Read more → 2026.sonicacts.com
Visual identity: Anja Kaiser with Knoth & Renner
Sound: @ahossan.bsky.social & KMRU
Video: Nelly Nakahara
Read more → 2026.sonicacts.com
Visual identity: Anja Kaiser with Knoth & Renner
Sound: @ahossan.bsky.social & KMRU
Video: Nelly Nakahara
Announcing the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, ‘Melted for Love’!
📍Amsterdam | 🗓 5 Feb – 29 Mar
80+ events, 200+ artists, 15+ venues.
Exhibitions, concerts, listening sessions, club nights & more.
Reimagining home as a site of love, care & belonging.
Learn more → 2026.sonicacts.com
📍Amsterdam | 🗓 5 Feb – 29 Mar
80+ events, 200+ artists, 15+ venues.
Exhibitions, concerts, listening sessions, club nights & more.
Reimagining home as a site of love, care & belonging.
Learn more → 2026.sonicacts.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Announcing the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, ‘Melted for Love’!
📍Amsterdam | 🗓 5 Feb – 29 Mar
80+ events, 200+ artists, 15+ venues.
Exhibitions, concerts, listening sessions, club nights & more.
Reimagining home as a site of love, care & belonging.
Learn more → 2026.sonicacts.com
📍Amsterdam | 🗓 5 Feb – 29 Mar
80+ events, 200+ artists, 15+ venues.
Exhibitions, concerts, listening sessions, club nights & more.
Reimagining home as a site of love, care & belonging.
Learn more → 2026.sonicacts.com
We are happy to announce that Sonic Acts has made its debut on Substack, an online platform for independent journalism. Subscribe to receive future interviews, articles, and commissioned texts directly in your inbox.
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September 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We are happy to announce that Sonic Acts has made its debut on Substack, an online platform for independent journalism. Subscribe to receive future interviews, articles, and commissioned texts directly in your inbox.
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Discover the story behind Sonic Acts. Our new longread traces the organisation’s evolution – from a festival in the 1990s to its development into an expansive platform for experimental and interdisciplinary art, and the Sonic Acts Biennial.
Read the full story on our website: www.sonicacts.com
Read the full story on our website: www.sonicacts.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Discover the story behind Sonic Acts. Our new longread traces the organisation’s evolution – from a festival in the 1990s to its development into an expansive platform for experimental and interdisciplinary art, and the Sonic Acts Biennial.
Read the full story on our website: www.sonicacts.com
Read the full story on our website: www.sonicacts.com
Sonic Acts welcomes Clara de Asís as the next resident of its recently launched Spatial Sound Residency. Across two residency periods, she will develop a new work titled ‘Infinity This Time’.
More info via sonicacts.com/news/spatial...
More info via sonicacts.com/news/spatial...
July 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Sonic Acts welcomes Clara de Asís as the next resident of its recently launched Spatial Sound Residency. Across two residency periods, she will develop a new work titled ‘Infinity This Time’.
More info via sonicacts.com/news/spatial...
More info via sonicacts.com/news/spatial...
Sonic Acts welcomes C. Lavender (@clavender.bsky.social) as the first official resident of its recently launched Spatial Sound Residency – a programme supporting artists working with multichannel composition and spatial sound.
More info via sonicacts.com/news/ssr-lav....
More info via sonicacts.com/news/ssr-lav....
July 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Sonic Acts welcomes C. Lavender (@clavender.bsky.social) as the first official resident of its recently launched Spatial Sound Residency – a programme supporting artists working with multichannel composition and spatial sound.
More info via sonicacts.com/news/ssr-lav....
More info via sonicacts.com/news/ssr-lav....
This summer, explore standout long reads on our website: sonicacts.com/archive. We’ve been sharing a series of interviews and essays from key Sonic Acts Press back catalogue titles.
All featured books are now discounted in our shop: shop.sonicacts.com.
All featured books are now discounted in our shop: shop.sonicacts.com.
June 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This summer, explore standout long reads on our website: sonicacts.com/archive. We’ve been sharing a series of interviews and essays from key Sonic Acts Press back catalogue titles.
All featured books are now discounted in our shop: shop.sonicacts.com.
All featured books are now discounted in our shop: shop.sonicacts.com.
Exciting news! Sonic Acts is launching the Spatial Sound Residency in Rotterdam – a new space for artists to create multichannel works premiering at the 2026 Biennial. Invited residents will explore spatial sound in this next chapter of our 30-year journey. More info: www.sonicacts.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Exciting news! Sonic Acts is launching the Spatial Sound Residency in Rotterdam – a new space for artists to create multichannel works premiering at the 2026 Biennial. Invited residents will explore spatial sound in this next chapter of our 30-year journey. More info: www.sonicacts.com
Sonic Acts is launching a Summer Sale with a wide selection of books, magazines, and sonic releases available at discounted prices.
🛒 Shop online until 10 July via: shop.sonicacts.com
📦 Read more about our titles and releases on sale here: sonicacts.com/news/summer-...
🛒 Shop online until 10 July via: shop.sonicacts.com
📦 Read more about our titles and releases on sale here: sonicacts.com/news/summer-...
June 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Sonic Acts is launching a Summer Sale with a wide selection of books, magazines, and sonic releases available at discounted prices.
🛒 Shop online until 10 July via: shop.sonicacts.com
📦 Read more about our titles and releases on sale here: sonicacts.com/news/summer-...
🛒 Shop online until 10 July via: shop.sonicacts.com
📦 Read more about our titles and releases on sale here: sonicacts.com/news/summer-...
Hear hear! Final chance to apply to ‘The Walls Have Ears’!
Offered by Sonic Acts and De Ateliers/Woonhuis, this fully funded sound studies writing residency takes place in Amsterdam from 2 February to 3 March 2026.
Submit your proposal before Saturday 14 June, 23:59.
www.sonicacts.com
Offered by Sonic Acts and De Ateliers/Woonhuis, this fully funded sound studies writing residency takes place in Amsterdam from 2 February to 3 March 2026.
Submit your proposal before Saturday 14 June, 23:59.
www.sonicacts.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Hear hear! Final chance to apply to ‘The Walls Have Ears’!
Offered by Sonic Acts and De Ateliers/Woonhuis, this fully funded sound studies writing residency takes place in Amsterdam from 2 February to 3 March 2026.
Submit your proposal before Saturday 14 June, 23:59.
www.sonicacts.com
Offered by Sonic Acts and De Ateliers/Woonhuis, this fully funded sound studies writing residency takes place in Amsterdam from 2 February to 3 March 2026.
Submit your proposal before Saturday 14 June, 23:59.
www.sonicacts.com
🚨⏰📝 From commission to residency, workshop to performance – Sonic Acts opens new space for artists, writers, and researchers to reflect, make, and unearth what lies between sound and memory, language and the body, technology and ecology. 🚨⏰📝
Don't miss the coming deadlines!
www.sonicacts.com
Don't miss the coming deadlines!
www.sonicacts.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🚨⏰📝 From commission to residency, workshop to performance – Sonic Acts opens new space for artists, writers, and researchers to reflect, make, and unearth what lies between sound and memory, language and the body, technology and ecology. 🚨⏰📝
Don't miss the coming deadlines!
www.sonicacts.com
Don't miss the coming deadlines!
www.sonicacts.com
Open Call: 🌱 SPRINGS 🌱
Are you an early-career artist (32 y/o & under, NL-based) ready to develop a bold new project?
Cross-disciplinary proposals are welcomed: sound works, field walks, workshops, printed matter, AV experiments, etc.
📝 → Find out more & apply before 2 June: bit.ly/42WF16L
Are you an early-career artist (32 y/o & under, NL-based) ready to develop a bold new project?
Cross-disciplinary proposals are welcomed: sound works, field walks, workshops, printed matter, AV experiments, etc.
📝 → Find out more & apply before 2 June: bit.ly/42WF16L
May 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Open Call: 🌱 SPRINGS 🌱
Are you an early-career artist (32 y/o & under, NL-based) ready to develop a bold new project?
Cross-disciplinary proposals are welcomed: sound works, field walks, workshops, printed matter, AV experiments, etc.
📝 → Find out more & apply before 2 June: bit.ly/42WF16L
Are you an early-career artist (32 y/o & under, NL-based) ready to develop a bold new project?
Cross-disciplinary proposals are welcomed: sound works, field walks, workshops, printed matter, AV experiments, etc.
📝 → Find out more & apply before 2 June: bit.ly/42WF16L
We are accepting applications now!
Join us from 11 to 15 June as we explore how sound can carry memory, identity, and legacy across time. 🔊🔊 This archiving sound workshop is open to all artists, 18–25y/o, NL-based.
📝 → Apply before 11 May: sonicacts.com/news/voice-a...
Join us from 11 to 15 June as we explore how sound can carry memory, identity, and legacy across time. 🔊🔊 This archiving sound workshop is open to all artists, 18–25y/o, NL-based.
📝 → Apply before 11 May: sonicacts.com/news/voice-a...
April 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We are accepting applications now!
Join us from 11 to 15 June as we explore how sound can carry memory, identity, and legacy across time. 🔊🔊 This archiving sound workshop is open to all artists, 18–25y/o, NL-based.
📝 → Apply before 11 May: sonicacts.com/news/voice-a...
Join us from 11 to 15 June as we explore how sound can carry memory, identity, and legacy across time. 🔊🔊 This archiving sound workshop is open to all artists, 18–25y/o, NL-based.
📝 → Apply before 11 May: sonicacts.com/news/voice-a...
📢 Sonic Acts is seeking interns! 📢 Join us ahead of the 2026 Biennial and gain hands-on learning experience in realising a major art, sound, and technology programme. Learn more & apply: sonicacts.homerun.co
April 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
📢 Sonic Acts is seeking interns! 📢 Join us ahead of the 2026 Biennial and gain hands-on learning experience in realising a major art, sound, and technology programme. Learn more & apply: sonicacts.homerun.co
Have you heard our new podcast? Sonic Trax dives into the archive, tracing sound art’s evolving legacy 🎧 Episodes 1-3 are now live – from reworked recordings from early Sonic Acts festivals to the legendary Dutch artist, instrument maker, and radical performer Michel Waisvisz: bit.ly/43QnY8j
March 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Have you heard our new podcast? Sonic Trax dives into the archive, tracing sound art’s evolving legacy 🎧 Episodes 1-3 are now live – from reworked recordings from early Sonic Acts festivals to the legendary Dutch artist, instrument maker, and radical performer Michel Waisvisz: bit.ly/43QnY8j
Are you ready for some muddy business?
Join us ‘Alterlife: Sewage and Mud’ on Thursday, 27 February at 20:00 (doors open 19:30) at Ventilator Cinema (OT301) in Amsterdam. With presentations by Alina Schmuch, Cocky Eek, and noiserr aka Martina Raponi.
More info and tickets via www.sonicacts.com
Join us ‘Alterlife: Sewage and Mud’ on Thursday, 27 February at 20:00 (doors open 19:30) at Ventilator Cinema (OT301) in Amsterdam. With presentations by Alina Schmuch, Cocky Eek, and noiserr aka Martina Raponi.
More info and tickets via www.sonicacts.com
February 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Are you ready for some muddy business?
Join us ‘Alterlife: Sewage and Mud’ on Thursday, 27 February at 20:00 (doors open 19:30) at Ventilator Cinema (OT301) in Amsterdam. With presentations by Alina Schmuch, Cocky Eek, and noiserr aka Martina Raponi.
More info and tickets via www.sonicacts.com
Join us ‘Alterlife: Sewage and Mud’ on Thursday, 27 February at 20:00 (doors open 19:30) at Ventilator Cinema (OT301) in Amsterdam. With presentations by Alina Schmuch, Cocky Eek, and noiserr aka Martina Raponi.
More info and tickets via www.sonicacts.com
In Ecoes #7, Charlemagne Palestine reflects on his Sonic Acts 2024 Biennial performance at the centuries-old Oude Kerk, where he played the Vater-Müller organ.
'All organs are so different... Unlike pianos, they function more like synthesizers.'
Get your copy or subscribe: shop.sonicacts.com
'All organs are so different... Unlike pianos, they function more like synthesizers.'
Get your copy or subscribe: shop.sonicacts.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
In Ecoes #7, Charlemagne Palestine reflects on his Sonic Acts 2024 Biennial performance at the centuries-old Oude Kerk, where he played the Vater-Müller organ.
'All organs are so different... Unlike pianos, they function more like synthesizers.'
Get your copy or subscribe: shop.sonicacts.com
'All organs are so different... Unlike pianos, they function more like synthesizers.'
Get your copy or subscribe: shop.sonicacts.com
Join us for the public launch of Sonic Acts’ Ecoes #7 on Thursday, 13 February!
We’re kicking off at 16:30 with a walk & talk with artist Alina Schmuch at W139, followed by a launch celebration with reading and listening from 18:00–19:00 at Athenaeum, Amsterdam. 🙌
More info: www.sonicacts.com
We’re kicking off at 16:30 with a walk & talk with artist Alina Schmuch at W139, followed by a launch celebration with reading and listening from 18:00–19:00 at Athenaeum, Amsterdam. 🙌
More info: www.sonicacts.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Join us for the public launch of Sonic Acts’ Ecoes #7 on Thursday, 13 February!
We’re kicking off at 16:30 with a walk & talk with artist Alina Schmuch at W139, followed by a launch celebration with reading and listening from 18:00–19:00 at Athenaeum, Amsterdam. 🙌
More info: www.sonicacts.com
We’re kicking off at 16:30 with a walk & talk with artist Alina Schmuch at W139, followed by a launch celebration with reading and listening from 18:00–19:00 at Athenaeum, Amsterdam. 🙌
More info: www.sonicacts.com
🦋 Welcome to Sonic Acts, an interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Amsterdam. Follow us and stay up-to-date about our programme with commissioned artworks, publications, events, updates and more. 🦋
📷: Cocky Eek, ‘Muddy Muddy Mystery Tour’, 2024. Photo by Bora Şekerci.
📷: Cocky Eek, ‘Muddy Muddy Mystery Tour’, 2024. Photo by Bora Şekerci.
January 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🦋 Welcome to Sonic Acts, an interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Amsterdam. Follow us and stay up-to-date about our programme with commissioned artworks, publications, events, updates and more. 🦋
📷: Cocky Eek, ‘Muddy Muddy Mystery Tour’, 2024. Photo by Bora Şekerci.
📷: Cocky Eek, ‘Muddy Muddy Mystery Tour’, 2024. Photo by Bora Şekerci.