What is Sonic Liberation Devices?

Sonic Liberation Devices is an ongoing series of open-source, decolonial musical instruments, built from scratch, that center accessibility and political expression. These devices are not just tools for music-making, they are instruments of resistance, memory, and connection. These musical inventions reframe instruments as systems of care, protest, and participation.

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By subscribing, you’re helping keep this work alive and accessible while joining a community that believes music and technology can be tools for liberation, solidarity and resistance.

Here’s what you’ll find here:

• Notes and process documentation (ex: design sketches, codes, fabrication, sound experiments and methods for DIY builders.

• Writings on the links between sound, politics, and open-source community technology.

• First look at new instruments, performances, and collaborations

• Invitations to workshops, talks, and shared experiments

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