Ecoes is a magazine about sound art, technology, and ecology, published by Sonic Acts Press. 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 was shortlisted for the MA-g Award for Graphic Design, and copies are held in the permanent collection at The Museum of Avant-garde in Mendrisio, Switzerland, as well as by Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, and MACBA, Barcelona.
Selected articles by Hannah Pezzack include:
A Divine Undoing: An Interview with Elvia Wilk
An uneasy atmosphere pervades Elvia Wilk's writing: a feeling that there is something terribly, irreparably wrong. Published in 2022, her collection of essays Death by Landscape grapples with the enormity of the environmental cataclysm and the inadequacy of human comprehension to reckon with it. The book is not a manifesto, but through the assembled texts, an imperative arises: Amidst the climate emergency, can we begin to recognise ourselves as deeply, sensorially interconnected with the world and its ecosystems? → Read
Watery Erotics, Liquidity and Oceanic Thinking: An Interview with Stefanie Hessler
Water flows through Stefanie Hessler’s practice. In her work, which encompasses large-scale curatorial, pedagogical and publishing projects, she attends to multi-layered, many meanings of the ocean as geographic location, imaginary landscape, element, body, archive, resource, transport surface and battleground. Drifting through these nuances, attending to flux and flow, ebb and oscillation, this interview centres on three texts authored and edited by Hessler – Tidalectics (2018), Prospecting Ocean (2019) and Sex Ecologies (2021), all published by the MIT Press alongside exhibitions of the same titles. → Read
Editor in Chief: Mirna Belina
Assistant Editor: Hannah Pezzack
Editorial Intern (Ecoes #7): Dominika Mikołajczyk
Copy editor: Andrea Rožić
Design: Rafaela Dražić
Ecoes #5 Photography: Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur