Celebrate the sonic achievements of 2022 with the Sound Of The Year Awards.

Mathew Herbert – composer and director of the Radiophonic Institute – speaks with the audio producer and SOTYA judge Alannah Chance, Drew Daniel and M. C. (Martin) Schmidt of Matmos, and co-host Naomi Paxton about the power of sound. They discuss its ability to represent political events, disappearing organisms, nature and society as a whole. Their discussion is followed by a multitude of amazing submissions from 2022, featuring sounds from Indonesia, Ukraine, South Africa, Canada and Taiwan ranging from cicadas and political protests to drift ice and poetry performed by Axel Kacoutié.

Produced by Ilia Rogatchevski for the Radiophonic Institute.

Track list:

SOTYA Performance - Axel Kacoutié

Black Lives Matter Demonstration In Vancouver - Anonymous

NYC Police Communication During Black Lives Matter Demonstrations - Anonymous

I imagined a Sound. - CLIP Sound and Music (read by Axel Kacoutié)

A Yorkshire Clough - Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra

Moodsonic Soundscaping - Fran Board

The Sniffing Rock - Manja Ristić

Mimpa Owa (A Duet with Javanese Gibbons) - Gardika Gigih Pradipta

Curlew Bubbling Song - Merlyn Driver

Calf Trying to Breathe After Dehorning - Mélia Roger

Bombina Bombina Mysterious Call - Jakub Orzęcki

Conversations at the Edge of the World - Emma Kate Matthews

Control - Tansy Xiao

In the Middle of Giants - Pablo Cerqueira

Mutations XX/XX/XX - Cândida Borges

Guide Me Across The Street - Leonard Maassen

Community - Hamed Mafakheri

'Capra' - The Goat Dance - Cosmin Sandu

King & Bells - Sheffield 8th September 2022 - Duncan Chapman

​​Remuage - Cà Del Bosco - Giuseppe Cordaro and Riccardo Caspani

Wonderwash - Berk Offset

broken metronome concrète - Owen Duff

Photon Smasher - CLIP

Photosynthetic Beats (Utricularia) - Ludwig Berger

Music for PlayStation - Jesse Austin-Stewart

gestures of thaw (Sólheimajökull, Iceland - July 2022) - Pablo Diserens

Ryuhyo - Yoichi Kamimura

Solitary Seal Pup Screeching - Horsey Beach - Joe Harvey- Whyte

Wind Turbine Like Fingernails on a Chalkboard - Rick Hannon

Sédiment Narratif - Audiotopie / La Quadrature

Vaillant aroTHERM plus - Vaillant

Changing Shifts - Chris Hails

Crépuscule automnal à l'étang du Ravoir (Autumn Nightfall at Ravoir's Pond) - Jocelyn Robert

War Over Nature - Jet Fighters Training Over Wildlife Conservation Sanctuary - Samuel Monceau

Silence of Sirens - Kyiv - Philipp Markovich

One Minute in Bakhmut - Ihor Babaiev

February 26 12.07 AM Chernihiv - Anton Stuk

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.