Record release: Brian House’s Everyday Infrasound in an Uncertain World

Thursday, October 30, 2025
169 Bowery NYC
8:00 PM

Even though you can’t hear it, infrasound fills the air. And because the atmosphere doesn’t absorb it like regular sound, infrasound comes from hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away. If humans could perceive frequencies lower than 20 Hz, then changing ocean currents, wildfires, turbines, receding glaciers, industrial HVACs, superstorms, and other geophysical and anthropogenic sources from across the planet would be part of the quotidian soundscape of our lives, wherever we might be.

For “Everyday Infrasound in an Uncertain World,” Brian House captured atmospheric infrasound using “Macrophones”—20ft diameter microphones—of his own design. Coming out under the legendary field recording label Gruenrekorder, the album features 24 hours of recording sped up by a factor of 60, raising the pitch by almost six octaves and making infrasound audible. The result is a largely unprecedented document that bears witness to this radically uncertain moment for the planet and our political failure to meet it.

For this event, House will talk about the background of the project and present a infrasound recordings custom mixed for the SPATIAL sound system. House will be joined by fellow artist Sue Huang for a conversation about the project’s impetus and will present infrasound recordings custom mixed for the New Ear spatial sound system. Soundscapes by Mike Thies (Live Footage) to follow.

About the Artist

Brian House is an artist who investigates the rhythms of human and nonhuman systems. Through sound, subversive technology, and multidisciplinary research, he makes our interdependencies audible in order to imagine new political realities. His current project, Macrophones, explores atmospheric infrasound as a means of listening to the climate crisis.

House is a Creative Capital awardee and has exhibited at MoMA, Los Angeles MOCA, Ars Electronica, ZKM Center for Art and Media, V&A Museum, Beall Center for Art + Technology, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Stockholm Kulturhust, Science Gallery Bangalore, Fridman Gallery, Issue Project Room, Eyebeam, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, among other venues. The New York Times Magazine, WIRED, The Guardian, and TIME’s annual “Best Inventions” issue have featured his work, and his research has been published in Leonardo, Journal of Sonic Studies, Media Art Study and Theory, and e-flux Architecture