Infrasonica is a digital platform of non-Western sonic arts and cultures. We record, analyze and debate the eeriness of sound and its auras, linked to the world with the audible, the hidden and the sensitive. Infrasonic waves operate at a frequency that is undetectable by human ears even though they are often generated by massive ecological phenomena, such as the movement of tectonic plates or the deep currents of the ocean. Infrasonica aims to be a catalyst for those vibrations.
The platform includes archives of experimental sound and visual artists, as well as theoretical musings on contemporary critical thought. By relying on a borderless network of collaborators, Infrasonica blends essays, conversations and speculative works that encourage critical curatorial and research projects.
- Sounds Like
April 2025 - 3
Infrasonica presents a ten-episode audio series: Sounds Like.
We invited three artists from our network of collaborators to respond to our three editorial lines: Sonic Realism, Audible Matter, and Voicing Abstraction.
Vibeke Mascini, Mercedes Azpilicueta and Julian Abraham ‘Togar’ expanded and challenged these ideas with sound pieces departing from their current research.
Over three episodes, each guest discusses these newly produced works and their practice at large with Infrasonica’s Editor in Chief, Pablo José Ramírez.
Dive into the new section of Sounds Like to listen in!
Vibeke Mascini presents a series of sound pieces composed with the artist and musician Nyksan, the project takes the idea of a lullaby, a tender, soothing practice, and combines it with the X account (formerly Twitter) of Miguel Wattson, an Amazonian electric eel housed at the Chattanooga aquarium in Tennessee.
Mercedes Azpilicueta shares the new piece Seized Atelier, carrying something of the quotidian, among crinkling of plastic wrap, ice clinking in a glass and, at other times, otherworldly sounds.
Julian Abraham ‘Togar’ composed the multi-part sound work Malapetaka, Malay word that translates to calamity, misfortune, or disaster, building intensely evocative set of rhythms, chimes, and chants that coalesce into something otherworldly and entirely human.
In the last episode of the series, close to our fifth birthday, Infrasonica gathers around a virtual table to discuss what it means to be a platform dedicated to non–Western sound practices in 2025? How has our definition of non-Western evolved? What are our new challenges and projections?
As always, thank you for listening.