About Us

Sound Codes is an independent research and artistic practice operating at the intersection of sound, technology, and cultural memory. Founded by Akash Sharma, the initiative explores how sound can be recorded, interpreted, and reimagined as both data and experience.

Our work moves fluidly between disciplines—spanning electroacoustic composition, software and hardware development, and site-specific research. We engage with sound not only as an artistic medium, but as a form of knowledge: something that can document space, encode history, and reveal relationships between humans, machines, and environments.

A significant part of our research focuses on acoustic ecology and archaeoacoustics—documenting and reconstructing the sonic signatures of culturally and historically significant sites across India. These recordings are not treated as static archives, but as living material: translated into instruments, immersive installations, and computational systems.

Alongside fieldwork, we design, build, and sell a range of specialised tools for listening and sound-making. As well as software frameworks and interfaces that challenge conventional production pipelines. These instruments are released in limited editions, commissioned builds, and open experimental formats, and are used by artists, studios, researchers and institutions seeking alternative sonic approaches.

Our hardware is not conceived as neutral equipment, but as extensions of our research—devices that carry specific acoustic perspectives, spatial sensitivities, and compositional possibilities. Each tool emerges from field studies, material experiments, and iterative prototyping, situating it somewhere between instrument, archive, and artwork.

Sound Codes also operates as a pedagogical platform. Through workshops, lectures, and collaborative sessions, we share methods of working with sound that emphasize openness, critical inquiry, and technical literacy.

Structurally, we maintain a self-hosted and decentralized digital infrastructure, aligning our technical processes with broader concerns around autonomy, privacy, and sustainability.

At its core, Sound Codes is less a studio and more an evolving framework—one that treats sound as a site of inquiry, and technology as a material for thinking—while also producing tools that can be directly engaged with, acquired, and put to use.