Drifting away from a state of stability, blurring acceleration, moving out of sight, but not out of mind. Invisible but audible, the consequences reveal themselves through the silence of species we have never heard. Jana Winderen’s new work Pasvikdalen is based on recordings made both above and under water close to the border between Norway and Russia. The work is a commission of Dark Ecology/Sonic Acts. The live premiere of Pasvikdalen took place on 27 February 2015 at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam, as part of the Sonic Acts festival 2015. Jana Winderen talked about her work at the Sonic Acts symposium on 27 February, her talk was entitled ‘Listening without getting Answers’. 

Jana Winderen - Pasvikdalen [Excerpt]

On the border between listening to the soundscape and "in situ" compositions, in the porosity proposed by a work who rubs the real,his artistic, ecological and spiritual paths approching each day a little closer to the silence.

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The originality of the company "Espaces Sonores" is based on a radical approach to sound and musical composition developed in close collaboration with the sites where we work.
The sound is always the driving force behind our work, which then opens up to other artistic disciplines. The latter then blends with the sound, music and text, to offer new vistas, new perspectives.
Proposing sound based site specific shows where the notions of spaces crossed, paths travelled, and text entwined, are the fields explored played with, developed & inhabited.

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L’originalité de la compagnie Espaces Sonores repose sur une approche radicale
de la composition élaborée en lien étroit et au contact des espaces où seront
entendues les oeuvres.
Le son est le premier moteur de propositions artistiques qui s’ouvrent au partage à
d’autres disciplines. Celles-ci viennent alors à la rencontre de l'écriture sonore et
musicale pour lui offrir de nouvelles échappées, de nouvelles perspectives.
Nous proposons des créations contextuelles où les espaces traversés sont les
champs d’investigations de pratiques artistiques transversales.

Stéphane MARIN:
Acteur du développement de l’art sonore en espaces libres (Espaces Sonores - Lieux Publics - Décor Sonore), ​​​compositeur de musiques électroacoustiques multiphoniques pour le spectacle vivant en espace public (2ème Groupe d'Intervention, Osmosis Cie) Stéphane Marin s’investit depuis plus de 10 ans dans ces aventures artistiques qui prennent la ville comme lieu de résonance, comme matériau vivant pour la composition de nouvelles formes musicales et sonores.

Il crée en 2008 ESPACES SONORES, dont le travail repose sur une approche radicale de la composition élaborée en lien étroit avec les espaces où sera entendue l'oeuvre. Il y conçoit des créations sonores contextuelles pour sites spécifiques.

C'est à la frontière entre l'écoute du paysage sonore in situ et la composition, dans la porosité que propose l'oeuvre qui se frotte au réel, que s'engage son travail.​​​
Sa trajectoire artistique, écologique et spirituelle le rapproche chaque jour un peu plus près du silence.





Schopenhauer in the Air, Brother Beaver and Mr. Understood are Undersea Volcano Gods. Made of Magma is their latest album on soundcloud and youtube. 

mountainfightsthesun@gmail.com is their email address. 

Dead Letter Office features some of the earliest soundmashing by Schopenhauer in the Air.

say hello via: friederike_jaeger@hotmail.com

Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 · Melted for Love | Amsterdam | 5 Feb – 29 Mar | 80+ events · 200+ artists · 15+ venues | Reimagining home through love, care & belonging → 2026.sonicacts.com

Daugiau įrašų/more recordings: http://soundcloud.com/alas23/

Amber Vistein (b. 1984) is a composer and sound artist who delves deeply into the poetics of timbre, texture, and gesture. Praised for her conceptual “acuity” (Big, Red, and Shiny) and “blooming phrases” (New Music Box), they draw upon research in affect theory, phenomenology, aesthetics, sonic materialism, historical musicology, and psychoacoustics to compose music filled with storied textural details, shifting temporal effects, and affectively charged atmospheres. Their style is defined by the juxtaposition of a visceral gestural vocabulary alongside evocative textural constructions; cross-cutting registers from the autonomic to the atmospheric. This highly tactile approach to composition works to unearth invisible events, networks, and histories by introducing expressive imperfections—dysfluencies—into the musical sentence. These sites of rupture (a suspended trill, stutter, or broken-record loop) expose the submerged complexities of sound, the labor of its production, and its fragility.

Amber has recently had the pleasure of composing for the International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Chartreuse, Ensemble Dal Niente, Russel Greenberg of Yarn/Wire, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. She created site-specific sound installations for the deCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA and collaborated with video artist Justice to present the multi-media work Landscapes at the Peabody Essex Museum. They were an artist-in-residence with ArtsIceland in Ísafjörður, Iceland. And participated in NYU's Summer Film Scoring Workshop, EMPAC's Spatial Audio Workshop, and soundSCAPE composer-performer exchange in Cesena, Italy.

From 2017-19 Amber was a Composition Fellow with the American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice program. They were commissioned by the Washington National Opera to compose a 20-minute chamber opera in collaboration with librettist Rebecca Hart as part of the American Opera Initiative program. This work, entitled The Barrens, premiered at the Kennedy Center in April 2021. Man Will Not Outlive the Weather—Amber’s first chamber opera for mezzo-soprano, ensemble and electronics—premiered in 2017. Their full-length opera-film, entitled Dark Exhalation, for four voices, ensemble, and electronics premiered in Spring 2022. Dark Exhalation is also a 2022 OPERA America Discovery Grant recipient in support of a lab production planned for 2023.

Amber holds a B.A. in Music & Philosophy from New College of Florida and an MFA in Sonic Arts from Massachusetts College of Art. They recently completed their PhD in Music and Multimedia Composition at Brown University, where their scholarly research focuses on sonic materiality, embodiment, posthumanism, temporality, vocality, affect theory, and autonomic poetics. https://ambervistein.com/