Contingent Sounds

This very hot weekend, the Betonhalle at silent green promises a nice shadow; drop in on Miss Read book fair. We will bring all these gems!

Opening hours:
Friday 17:00–21:00
Saturday 12:00–19:00
Sunday 12:00–19:00

Free entry!

silent green Kulturquartier, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin silent green Kulturquartier

We are thrilled to present this new release: an artist’s book that explores sound through text, image, and paper. Printed and assembled by the artists in a limited edition of 50 copies

»An Alchemy of Sounds in Crises«

Drawing on alchemy as both metaphor and method, this artist book traces sonic practices that arise within radical transformation—approaching sound beyond audibility, across textual, visual, and archival practices, and transducing it onto paper. The texts and visual essays collected here emerged from meetings and conversations around a shared question: what is a crisis, and how do sound and listening operate within it? They follow sounds as they travel and become inscribed in bodies, stories, recipes, maps, weapons, lyrics, and speculative spaces—reflecting on how sound endures, persists, or is displaced; what it leaves behind when recorded, and what it allows to emerge. Sound is not treated here as something simply captured by text and images, but as an event that exceeds its container, pressing against the surfaces that attempt to hold it.

Contributions by domingo castillo flores, Yuchin Chen, Nino Davadze, Clay Hillenburg, Nicole Luján, Damián Noguera, Jeremy Segal, Angelos Tassopoulos, Vicente Yañez

English
122 pages (full color, coated and uncoated paper)
Includes: Anaglyph 3D glasses

Available in our webshop (link in the bio) and this weekend at Miss Read

We are thrilled to announce the new release, “Vocal Streams,” by Agustín Genoud . Today we will launch this book at 7 pm at (link in the bio)

In Vocal Streams, Agustín Genoud explores the voice as a living field. Drawing on decades of performance, workshops, and theoretical inquiry, he reimagines vocality by tracing unexpected connections between the human body and the spaces, machines, and histories that shape the voice. Blending essay, theory, autobiography, and practical exercises drawn from his Trans-Synthetic Vocal Workshops, the book follows the voice through bodily organs, resonant caves, microphones, ancestral architecture, animal songs, and AI-generated voices. Along the way, it asks where voices begin and end, how they shape the boundaries between inside and outside, and what becomes possible when we stop treating the voice as exclusively human. At once intimate and speculative, Vocal Streams is both a meditation on singing and a practical invitation to sing.

English, softcover, 14.8 x 21 cm
166 pages
ISBN 978-3-912778-00-7

Translation by: Alonso Almenara
Additional proofreading by Kirstin Cameron
Cover design and edition by Alejandra Cárdenas

We are thrilled to announce the new release, “Vocal Streams,” by Agustín Genoud . Today we will launch this book at 7 pm at (link in the bio)

In Vocal Streams, Agustín Genoud explores the voice as a living field. Drawing on decades of performance, workshops, and theoretical inquiry, he reimagines vocality by tracing unexpected connections between the human body and the spaces, machines, and histories that shape the voice. Blending essay, theory, autobiography, and practical exercises drawn from his Trans-Synthetic Vocal Workshops, the book follows the voice through bodily organs, resonant caves, microphones, ancestral architecture, animal songs, and AI-generated voices. Along the way, it asks where voices begin and end, how they shape the boundaries between inside and outside, and what becomes possible when we stop treating the voice as exclusively human. At once intimate and speculative, Vocal Streams is both a meditation on singing and a practical invitation to sing.

English, softcover, 14.8 x 21 cm
166 pages
ISBN 978-3-912778-00-7
Translation by: Alonso Almenara
Additional proofreading by Kirstin Cameron
Cover design and edition by Alejandra Cárdenas

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of “Vocal Streams” by Agustín Genoud
The book launch will take place next Wednesday at

Come join us!
There will be a talk with Agustín Genoud, moderated by Alejandra Cárdenas.
And a performance by Agustín Genoud. 💥

📍May 13, 7pm
daadgalerie, Oranienstraße 161 Kreuzberg, Berlin
Free admission.

In Vocal Streams, Agustín Genoud explores the voice as a living field. Drawing on decades of performance, workshops, and theoretical inquiry, he reimagines vocality by tracing unexpected connections between the human body and the spaces, machines, and histories that shape the voice. Blending essay, theory, autobiography, and practical exercises drawn from his Trans-Synthetic Vocal Workshops, the book follows the voice through bodily organs, resonant caves, microphones, ancestral architecture, animal songs, and AI-generated voices. Along the way, it asks where voices begin and end, how they shape the boundaries between inside and outside, and what becomes possible when we stop treating the voice as exclusively human. At once intimate and speculative, Vocal Streams is both a meditation on singing and a practical invitation to sing.