Absonus Lab is guided by a framework of post-techno aesthetics—a radical methodology that critiques and expands the powerful role of sound within technological society. This aesthetic, invented within the lab, moves beyond genre to disrupt conventional forms through algorithmic uncertainty, glitch, and post-human collaboration.
Our research probes the critical questions embedded in sonic practice: How do digital tools shape cultural meaning? What political assumptions are encoded in algorithms? How does sound materialize the rhythms of capital and technology?
Informed by cybercultural and technocultural perspectives, our work operates at the intersection of sound studies, digital art, and practice-based research. This methodology treats the acts of composing, performing, and building digital instruments as vital forms of inquiry themselves. We fuse this hands-on experimentation with critical theory to examine how subcultural art communities interact with technology as a site of imagination and resistance, constructing techno-ethnographic narratives that challenge dominant infrastructures. At its core, we investigate sound as both an artistic material and a tool for critical engagement, unpacking the entire sonic ecosystem, from the minerals in our devices to the metaphors in our minds within post-digital, post-industrial, and post-techno frameworks.
We are composers, sound artists, programmers, and thinkers united by a desire to redefine the boundaries of sonic art.
Areas of focus include:
- Artistic Practice: Composition, Performance, Sound Art & Spatialization.
- Interaction & Code: Computational Music, Interactivity, and Gesture.
- Critical Theory: The politics and ecology of sound; society, culture, and discourse.
- Media Hybridity: Visual Music, Synesthesia, and Digital Media Art.
- Sonic Cognition: Perception, hyper-sonics, and non-visual representation.
- Technology & Culture: Industry, innovation, obsolescence, and hyper-instruments.
- Preservation: Archiving and documenting sonic heritage for the future.
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