Sónar 2023: Highlights, AI culture in prompts of music, science & technology

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Text by Irem Erkin Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Sónar Festival and its organic extension, a decade-old Sónar+D, have always been ahead of their time while displaying the present culture at its best. That’s probably why the topic of AI has already been covered in Sónar Festival through different perspectives since 2016, and the first […]

The sound entities of Maryanne Amacher: empowering the body for sensations

Text by Olya Karlovich We feel sound with our bodies. Our auditory system, skin, brain and other internal organs all perceive sound signals from the outside world. In 1976, scientists discovered the McGurk effect [1], once again proving the interconnection between hearing and other senses (in this case, vision). Listening is a multi-layered, active and, […]