Ecoes is a magazine about sound art, technology, and ecology, published by Sonic Acts. A portmanteau of ‘ecology’ and ‘echoes’, it is rooted in environmental concerns and investigates how auditory practices shape our understanding of contemporary worlds — human and nonhuman. Through critical essays, artistic contributions, and interviews, each issue amplifies alternative ways of sensing, interpreting, and intervening in a rapidly changing planet.

Ecoes #3 reflects, in text and images, the elemental forces (synthetic or natural) that create tension in the world around us. Angeliki Balayannis begins the issue with an inquiry into how legacies of hazardous waste and infrastructure can become sites of repair. Artist and researcher Mary Maggic questions how we situate our bodies in the midst of toxic environments, while Yolanda Ariadne Collins explores theoretical discourse and speculative fiction on weather as a tool to destabilise knowledge traditions. Ways of reclaiming and refiguring definitions of ‘normal’ and ‘natural’, multi-scalar and multi-sited journeys of microbes, eels, glaciers, and unstable polder grounds that house nuclear infrastructures are visited by others throughout the pages of this voluminous issue. Reimagined sirens in an age of complex and durational disasters, interviews with artists whose practices invite us to look and listen anew, and one inlay, a map to move within non-normative time – all gather to create a rigorous, diverse, and visually striking edition.

Contents

Introduction – Mirna Belina

Legacies – Angeliki Balayannis

The Body Is Not A Sovereign Object: Fighting The Habit of Looking Away – Dani Admiss

All Washed Over by Hormones of Loving Grace – Mary Maggic

Weathering Weather: Atmospheric Geographies of The Guiana Shield – Yolanda Ariadne Collins

Toxic Bonds – Antonia Alampi

★ Nuclear Polders in Limbo: The Ragged Landscape of Gravelines – Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Agnès Villette

★ When I Image The Earth, I Imagine Another – open weather (Sasha Engelmann, Sophie Dyer)

Aura Satz: Speaking To Emergencies – Interview by Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou

John Grzinich: Aeolian Harps And Filtering Certain Modes Of Perception – Interview by Maud Seuntjens

Out of Focus: Down The Crimson Cliffs, Past The Fjord of The Dead, Over the Signal Mountain – Louis Braddock Clarke, Zuzanna Zgierska

De Allá Pa Acá – Andrea Galano Toro

★ Never Odd or Even: A Wobbly Map for Time Travel – MELT (Ren Loren Britton and Isabel Paehr)

The Sticky Mind(S) – ●, pantea and others

Editors: Mirna Belina, Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou, Margarita Osipian
232 pages, published in  2022