Post-Digital Sonic Media Art Podcast by Hugo Paquete - Artistic Manifesto and Sonic Research
Core Principles of Post-Digital Sonic Practice
Hugo Paquete's podcast operates at the intersection of sound, system, and theory, transmuting noise into knowledge and framing listening as an act of resistance. The artistic practice repurposes obsolete infrastructures, geological and biological data, informational flows, and algorithmic processes to construct immersive sonic architectures that interrogate perception, embodiment, and control in contemporary technological societies.
Beyond Traditional Sound Art - Post-Digital Media Ecology
This podcast explores post-digital sonic media art as a distinct field from traditional sound art. It examines post-digital media ecology as a field of aesthetic events generated through noise, glitch, systemic collapse, and distributed agency, shaped by the continuum of natural and artificial forces. The research investigates collaboration with machines, sensors, and environments to build speculative systems that think through vibration, from micro-sonic grains to maximum amplitude.
Sonifying the Technological Unconscious
From hacked natural and technological artefacts to orbital satellites and electromagnetic fields, Hugo Paquete's work sonifies the technological unconscious. The podcast examines how sonic practice exposes hidden operations of contemporary systems while reconfiguring the politics of space, care, and attention. Each artistic piece functions as an epistemic instrument, inviting engagement with the infrasensible and listening beyond conventional representation in sound art.
Post-Techno Aesthetics as Critical Methodology
Post-techno aesthetics emerges as a critical methodology in this podcast, distinct from post-digital aesthetics. Post-techno reframes rhythm, repetition, and automation as instruments of systemic critique. The research foregrounds stochastic processes, machinic collaboration, and non-linear composition as methods for resisting control and generating speculative futures. Post-techno is examined not as an extension of techno, but as its rupture, transforming its logic into a tool for cultural and political invention in contemporary art.
Vibrational Ontology and Distributed Agency in Sound Art
Informed by agential realism, post-human epistemologies, biopolitics, and vibrational ontology, the podcast treats sound as a site of intra-action where matter and meaning co-emerge through vibrational entanglement. The compositions, installations, and performances discussed are not representations but autopoietic systems - adaptive, distributed, and ecological in their sonic organization and political implications.
Key Artistic Manifesto Statements
- I compose systems, not sounds - exploring systemic thinking in sonic practice
- I seek resonance, not harmony - investigating vibrational relationships
- I destabilize reality, I do not document it - critical approach to representation
- In noise, the signal of the real is revealed - epistemological value of sonic interference
- In resonance, futures otherwise are glimpsed - speculative potential of sound
- Through sound, worlds are inhabited, resisted, and regenerated - political dimension of listening
Methodological Approaches in Sonic Research
- Algorithmic sabotage and stochastic composition techniques
- Embracing glitch, entropy, and systemic collapse as compositional resources
- Distributed authorship across human and non-human actors in sound production
- Sonic forensics of technological infrastructures and their political implications
- Multi-scalar vibration from micro-sonic to planetary rhythms in artistic practice
- Post-human collaboration with machines and environments in sound creation
- Critical listening as methodology for technological and social analysis
Theoretical Foundations and Academic Context
This artistic podcast is informed by critical sound studies, media archaeology, agential realism, post-human epistemologies, biopolitical theory, vibrational ontology, and subcultural techno-ethnographic narratives that construct counter-infrastructures against algorithmic dominance in contemporary culture. The research contributes to academic discourses in sound studies, media theory, and contemporary art practice.
Publication and Research Context
Artistic podcast series published in 2025 as part of ongoing research in post-digital sound art practice, contributing to academic and artistic discourses in critical sound studies, media archaeology, post-human aesthetics, and technological critique. The podcast serves as both artistic output and research methodology in sonic media practice.
Keywords and Research Terminology
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