The Liquidity of Sounds by Vicmazz published on 2023-09-19T20:12:36Z This podcast proposes a more liquid way of archiving sounds. It takes on the possibilities presented by the sonic revolution of the late 19th century - the invention of the Edison phonograph. It navigates the materialization of sounds, challenging their subjectivities and ever changing qualities. Sounds are here used as a contemporary exercise of speculative research and philosophical proposition, rather than a mere form of entertainment. Ranging from classical recordings from the early 1900s, to the first sampling experimentation from the 40s-50s, till what is now being produced and considered to still be experimental, sounds are here the liquid which takes us in a non-linear analysis of sonic experimentation. In this travel through archives, one can wonder what links the curiosity behind sonic inquiries which were - or still are - ahead of its time. Or maybe simply hear through its invisible, however audible mobility, the surface of another time