Through Sounds presents Clipping 2: Sum, Parts
After Clipping 1: Coming of Age, the Nieuwe Instituut's Through Sounds project presents the second issue in its series of print publications on sound and sonic (sub)cultures. Clipping 2: Sum, Parts gathers transcripts, commissioned texts, studies, and personal reflections that explore how dynamics of transformation are central to building archives that remain ‘alive’ through time.
17 February 2026
Clippings are a series of publications by the Nieuwe Instituut’s Through Sounds project that bring together fragments from its ongoing activities. The name refers to the sonic phenomenon of ‘clipping’, whereby audio distorts when signals exceed their limits, as well as to the concept of ‘clippings’ as gathered, cut and rearranged excerpts. Several editions will appear each year, tracing and highlighting developments within Through Sounds as they unfold.
Clipping 2: Sum, Parts
This second issue departs from Regenerative Archives: Transforming perspectives on design and digital culture, a one-day symposium by Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD) that took place in June 2025. Rather than focusing solely on preservation, the programme explored regeneration in archival practice, and how it can emphasise growth, change and revitalisation. As part of the symposium, Federica Notari (Through Sounds) programmed a thread on sound archiving, compiling a series of conversations and sessions that traced the movements, possibilities and limitations of working with sonic archives.
Clipping 2: Sum, Parts gathers transcripts from parts of the Regenerative Archives symposium, as well as commissioned texts, studies, and personal reflections that explore how dynamics of transformation are central to building archives that remain ‘alive’ through time.
The issue features contributuions by Monique Todd, Andrea Zarza Canova, Cleo Tsw, Zahra Malkani, meLê yamomo, Melisa Cenik, Golnoosh Heshmati, Voice as Landscape (Alec Mateo and Lorenzo García-Andrade Llamas), Atiyyah Khan, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Femke Dekker, and Alice Twemlow. It is edited by Federica Notari and Cleo Tsw, designed by Catherine Hu and Cleo Tsw, and printed and bound by No Kiss.
Clipping 2: Sum, Parts is available at San Serriffe, NAi Booksellers and other stores. It is distributed by Jesse Presse and worldwide by Antenne Books.
About Through Sounds
Through Sounds is a long-term research project by the Nieuwe Instituut. It explores ‘sonic culture’ in relation to spatial and social design. The places where people listen are connected to various structures – physical, social, political and socio-economic ones. We call these ‘listening infrastructures’. Analysing these infrastructures helps us understand how and where we access sound, and how we meet and form communities through it.
