Acid Springfield is an experimental audio project and ongoing WIP redefining sound's role in the creative process. Based between Brooklyn & Melbourne, AS is a marriage of creative backgrounds: Ben Mackie, a sound designer and musician who has spent twenty-odd years making an absolute racket, and Erica Stevens, a Creative Director with over a decade’s experience conjuring Big Ideas.
By collaborating with creatives and brands to bring audio into the initial stages of a project vs an afterthought, AS develops unconventional sonic solutions through playful experimentation, designing experiences that offer listeners a fresh awareness of their sonic surrounds, reshaping sound into a powerful tool for creative connection.
Whether that’s via sonic teleportation, designing and building new technologies, finding new ways to connect to ourselves and with nature, or quite literally creating new methods of making music.
TERRAIN ENVIRONMENTAL SCORE // an evolving score composed for Terrain Projects new cavernous space. Acid Springfield crafted an interactive, living sound experience that morphs depending on environmental conditions, playfully prompting visitors to more closely consider our sonic surroundings, and more broadly, humans imprint on our local ecologies.
SOFT VIBRATIONS // an ongoing collaboration with urban beekeeper collective Honey Fingers exploring sounds connective role in human-nature symbiosis. Utilizing an instrument created by Acid Springfield, the vibrations and movements of a live honeybee colony are translated into ambient electronic music, exploring the softer side of bees, and in doing so shifting our relationship from one of fear to appreciation.
