ARCHIVE

A working library of talks, papers, podcasts and books.

What we learn from and pass on: lectures and talks, research papers, podcasts, books, films and findings from around the world on where we come from, how living systems connect, and how people tune to one another. Some of it is ours. Most of it is not. All of it is here because it helped us see more clearly.

Talks

The Entrainment of Living Systems

How biological rhythms synchronise across organisms — from fireflies to cardiac cells.

Podcasts

On Frequency and Consciousness

A conversation with researchers at the intersection of neuroscience and acoustic ecology.

Books

The Spell of the Sensuous

David Abram on perception, language, and the animate earth.

Films

Baraka

A non-verbal documentary on the rhythms and rituals of human civilisation.

Notes

On the Relationship Between Silence and Signal

Internal working note on how absence structures meaning in acoustic composition.

Talks

Light as Information

Biophoton research and the possibility of light-mediated cellular communication.

Papers

Acoustic Levitation and Matter Organisation

Experimental results on the use of standing waves to organise particulate matter.

Books

Sensitive Chaos

Theodor Schwenk on the formative forces of water and air in living systems.

Films

Koyaanisqatsi

Godfrey Reggio's meditation on the collision of nature and technology.

Notes

Field Notes: Resonance in Architecture

Observations from site visits to spaces designed around acoustic principles.