Hugo Paquete | Post-Digital Sonic Media Artist & Researcher Hugo Paquete
Post-Digital Sonic Media Art: Composing Systems of Resistance through Sound Laboratory & Systems Contact
Post-Digital Sonic Media Art Podcast | Hugo Paquete

Post-Digital Sonic Media Art podcast by Hugo Paquete

Core Principles of Post-Digital Sonic Practice

My practice operates at the intersection of sound, system, and theory, transmuting noise into knowledge and framing listening as an act of resistance. I repurpose obsolete infrastructures, geological and biological data, informational flows, and algorithmic processes to construct immersive sonic architectures that interrogate perception, embodiment, and control.

Beyond Traditional Sound Art

This is not traditional sound art; it is a post-digital media ecology, a field of aesthetic events generated through noise, glitch, systemic collapse, and distributed agency, shaped by the continuum of natural and artificial forces. I collaborate 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, my work sonifies the technological unconscious. It exposes hidden operations of contemporary systems while reconfiguring the politics of space, care, and attention. Each piece functions as an epistemic instrument, inviting engagement with the infrasensible and listening beyond conventional representation.

Post-Techno Aesthetics as Methodology

Post-techno aesthetics emerges as a methodology, distinct from post-digital aesthetics. Post-techno reframes rhythm, repetition, and automation as instruments of systemic critique. It foregrounds stochastic processes, machinic collaboration, and non-linear composition as methods for resisting control and generating speculative futures. Post-techno is not an extension of techno, it is its rupture, transforming its logic into a tool for cultural and political invention.

Vibrational Ontology and Distributed Agency

Informed by agential realism, post-human epistemologies, biopolitics, and vibrational ontology, I treat sound as a site of intra-action where matter and meaning co-emerge through vibrational entanglement. My compositions, installations, and performances are not representations but autopoietic systems, adaptive, distributed, and ecological.

Key Manifesto Statements

  • I compose systems, not sounds
  • I seek resonance, not harmony
  • I destabilize reality, I do not document it
  • In noise, the signal of the real is revealed
  • In resonance, futures otherwise are glimpsed
  • Through sound, worlds are inhabited, resisted, and regenerated

Methodological Approaches

  • Algorithmic sabotage and stochastic composition
  • Embracing glitch, entropy, and systemic collapse as compositional resources
  • Distributed authorship across human and non-human actors
  • Sonic forensics of technological infrastructures
  • Multi-scalar vibration from micro-sonic to planetary rhythms
  • Post-human collaboration with machines and environments

Theoretical Foundations

This artistic practice 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.

Call to Action

This podcast is not a boundary but an opening: a call to collaborators, curators, and researchers to engage sound as a critical technology for sensing, resisting, and reimagining the infrastructures of life.

Keywords

post-digital sonic media art podcast, Hugo Paquete artistic philosophy, post-techno aesthetics, sonic resistance, listening as political act, cybernetic ecologies, vibrational ontology, technological unconscious, algorithmic sabotage, distributed agency, glitch epistemology, noise as knowledge, sonic forensics, post-human sound art, autopoietic systems, stochastic composition, infrastructural critique, sonic intra-action, resonance not harmony, systems not sounds, destabilizing reality through sound, sonic speculation, sound as critical technology

A Podcast for Sonic Thought: Theory, Practice, and the Technological Unconscious

This podcast operates as a speculative platform for theory-in-the-making, charting the interzones where sound art, media philosophy, and technological infrastructures converge. Each episode performs an act of aural forensics, uncovering the hidden systems, codes, and dynamics that shape how we perceive and inhabit the contemporary world.

Moving beyond the language of genres, the series investigates the conceptual forces driving current sonic practices: post-digital aesthetics, biopolitical sonification, and the meta-politics of subcultural movements. These explorations unfold as a living extension of my artistic and academic research, where sound becomes an epistemic system to probe the technological unconscious, adopt glitch as methodology, and speculate on the potential of post-human collaboration.

Each episode invites listeners to re-think listening itself: as theory, as practice, and as a tool for navigating the entangled ecologies of art, technology, and culture.

Artistic Research Framework

This podcast outlines the conceptual framework for Hugo Paquete's artistic research in post-digital sonic media art, establishing critical positions on sound as political practice, listening as resistance, and composition as systemic intervention in technological infrastructures.

Publication Context

Artistic podcast published in 2025 as part of ongoing research in post-digital sound art practice, contributing to discourses in critical sound studies, media archaeology, and post-human aesthetics.

Hugo Paquete | Post-Digital Sonic Media Artist & Researcher

Hugo Paquete - Sonic Media Artist Creating Post-Digital Sound Art and Immersive Installations

Hugo Paquete is a research-based media artist, composer, and academic whose transdisciplinary practice investigates the technological unconscious through post-digital sonic media art. His work operates at the intersection of critical sound studies, media archaeology, and post-digital aesthetics, creating immersive installations and performances that transform sound into philosophical inquiry.

Key projects include NEGENTROPY electronic opera, SARS-COV-2 sound installation, YUGEN dance performance, and Obscure Radiation electromagnetic sonification. Hugo Paquete's artistic research explores biopolitical sonification, vibrational ecologies, and the politics of listening through experimental composition and acousmatic practices.

    Hugo Paquete - Sonic Media Artist Creating Post-Digital Sound Art, acousmatic music and Immersive Installations

© Hugo Paquete Artist and researcher exploring post-digital aesthetics, sonic epistemologies, and the technological unconscious.