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An independent study of sound
and the things that carry it.

MINNEAPOLIS / EST. 2017

RECORDS / LISTENING SESSIONS / EQUIPMENT / IDEAS音・間・静・時

audiophilelogy

A PRACTICE OF PAYING ATTENTION

In praise
of listening.

Sound is not only heard.
It is spaced. It is felt. It is time.

LISTEN INTENTIONALLY. A record. A room. Time set aside.
Something worth hearing, together.
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01 / IN GOOD COMPANY

Gather around
the sound.

Music deserves more than the background.
Two ways of being in the room.

THE LISTENING SESSION01

Applied
Audiophilelogy

One recording, heard with care. The system, the space, the objects and the ritual become part of the experience.

RECORD → SYSTEM → ROOM → YOUInside a session ↗
THE LEFT-FIELD SERIES02

Love Letters
From The
Left-Field.

An invitation to the adventurous edges of music. Selectors, live experiments, unexpected connections.

IN DEVELOPMENTDetails to be announced
NEXT GATHERINGTaking shape. Dates and details will be announced here.Explore the listening archive ↓
02 / ON THE RECORD

Stay with it.

Recordings to give your time to.
No shuffle. No hurry.

001

Marc Leclair

Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes

TEXTURE / TIME / TRANSFORMATION
002

Horror Inc.

Briefly Eternal

SHADOW / SPACE / RHYTHM
003

Pole

1 / 2 / 3

DUB / FRAGMENTS / NEGATIVE SPACE
03 / THE STUDY

The music.
The medium.
The space
between.

Audiophilelogy is the study, culture and appreciation of sound—and the things we use to experience it.

FIELD NOTE / 01

The room is part of the system.

Before changing a component, change your position. Listen from the chair, the doorway, the far wall. Notice how the same recording seems to inhabit a different space.

FIELD NOTE / 02

A record is also an object.

The sleeve, the liner notes, the marks left by another owner. A recording carries a history beyond its sound. Spend a moment with it before the needle drops.

FIELD NOTE / 03

Attention is a listening practice.

Choose one side. Put the phone away. Resist the urge to skip. Let an unfamiliar passage remain unfamiliar for a while.

04 / THE LISTENING ARCHIVE

A room, remembered.

SESSION DOSSIER / 001
05 / LISTENING AS CULTURE

For the love of
paying attention.

Independent in spirit. Curious by nature. Audiophilelogy brings records, hi-fi, art and people into the same conversation.

From jazz and folk to microhouse and experimental sound, the thread is curiosity: where a recording comes from, how it reaches us, and what happens when we really listen.

Conceived and curated by Christian.
Based in Minneapolis. Ears everywhere.