Writing and editorial

Writing runs through all of eme’s work, and for long stretches it was the work itself. Since 2008 eme has founded blogs, edited news, interviewed sound designers and musicians, and written essays on listening, in English and Spanish, for sites that range from a sound design community to a philosophy publisher.

Designing Sound

eme started Designing Sound in 2008 as a blog about the art and technique of sound design, and it grew into one of the best known sound design resources online. Over its first years eme wrote more than a thousand posts of news, tips, videos and tutorials, and interviewed the people behind the sound of films, games and interactive media. The Featured Sound Designer series centered on figures such as Randy Thom and Tim Prebble, and a parallel series spoke with audio teams in video games. eme then handed the site to a community of editors who carried it on, and kept contributing articles such as Designing Silence and An acousmatic invitation in 2014.

Hispasonic and Fotograma Sonoro

For thirteen years, from 2008 to 2021, eme edited news and features on audio and music technology for Hispasonic, the largest Spanish-language community on audio production, writing thousands of posts. In June 2010 eme opened Fotograma Sonoro there, a Spanish-language blog on telling stories with sound. It published guides to sound design and field recording, interviews, close readings of films and their sound, and notes on history, theory and terminology. When the blog returned in 2013 it widened toward the meeting of philosophy, art, design and technology around sound, and later series such as the Guía de diseño sonoro kept that teaching line. Longer essays from the blog include Los fantasmas de la escucha, an introduction to sound art, and El oído mental, on cultivating sonic awareness.

Interviews and essays

At Sonic Field the interviews turned toward field recording in Ears of the Field and toward microsound in infinite grain. In 2017 eme interviewed Lucrecia Dalt for VICE en español about her conceptual process and her custom synthesis. In 2020 the Caja Negra blog published Estasis sonora, an essay on ambient music and the sensibility of cyberculture, with a reading of David Toop. For CLOT Magazine in 2022 eme interviewed Vladislav Delay, Helene Vogelsinger and Bienoise, profiled the labels LINE, Raster and Hallow Ground, and wrote essays on Éliane Radigue, on post-pandemic time and the new chronologies of sound, and on Jimmy Edgar’s crypto-based visual work. Translations into Spanish, of texts on ambient music, rural futurism and gender synthesis, belong to the same practice and are gathered in Cosiámpira, aleph::ch’ixi’s journal of essays and translations. The most recent text is For Centaur Ears, the algorithmic listening manifesto published in 2026 through LISTENING.md.