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Soundlapse at the eclipse: a new work by Claudia Robles-Angel

On Wednesday 12 August, ‘Almost Impermanent’ premiered — a new site-specific work by interdisciplinary artist Claudia Robles-Angel, presented during the solar eclipse in Abiego, northern Spain. Before a small group of specially invited guests, the presentation was an intimate encounter…


Soundlapse and acoustic monitoring at Bosque Pehuén

A new article from Fundación Mar Adentro (4 August 2026) explores the potential of acoustic monitoring at its Bosque Pehuén reserve, including the collaboration with Soundlapse. The piece notes that Felipe Otondo visited the reserve in October 2024 to make…


New publication in the journal Pattern Recognition Letters

A team of researchers from Universidad Austral de Chile (Poblete, Aillapi, Duarte, Veas and Otondo) studied how to best classify data — sounds, images — once artificial intelligence has compressed them into a compact mathematical representation. They compared four classification…


Presentation at scientific meeting in Bosque Pehuén

Felipe Otondo Presents Soundlapse at the First Scientific Meeting in Bosque Pehuén On 10–11 July 2026, Felipe Otondo participated in the First Scientific Meeting held at Bosque Pehuén and organised by Fundación Mar Adentro. The event brought together researchers from…


Soundlapse Sound Archive at HUMEDALIA Artist Residency

The Soundlapse project (FONDECYT 1250388) collaborates with artist and dancer Macarena Álvarez in her creative residency HUMEDALIA, currently underway at NAVE (Santiago). The project is transdisciplinary in nature, exploring the relationship between contemporary dance, performance and aquatic ecosystems in southern…


Field recordings at Valdivia costal forests

On Friday, 19 June, soundscape recordings were carried out at the Punta Curiñanco Coastal Protected Area in collaboration with students Nicolás Montes and Gera Leal. Located on the coast of Valdivia, north of the village of Curiñanco, the Punta Curiñanco…


Video on the sound of wetlands from the CEDEUS project

In this video, Felipe Otondo presents the connection between the Soundlapse project and the Center for Sustainable Urban Development, CEDEUS, a center of research excellence funded by ANID through its National Interest Research Centers program. From a perspective rooted in…


Research paper presented at the ICMC in Hamburg

The paper “Listening Across Spaces: Perceptual Evaluation of an Ambisonics-Based Sound Installation” was presented by undergraduate thesis student Leonardo Santos and Felipe Otondo at the International Computer Music Conference, held in Hamburg on 6 May 2026. The article, developed as…


Sound installation video

This video documents an immersive sound installation project based on Ambisonics recordings of natural environments from southern Chile. The project combined listening tests in an acoustically controlled laboratory and a museum gallery to examine how architectural context influences the perception…