SOCIOPLASTICS 2999 · SensoryTrace
Acoustic and Visual Evidence
From perception to evidential inscription
Author: Anto Lloveras · LAPIEZA-LAB · Madrid · 2026
ORCID: 0009-0009-9820-3319
Node: 2999 · Layer: Core VI · Series: Core Decalogue VI · Tome III
Tracker: 2999-TRACKER · System ID: SOCIOPLASTICS-2026-CORE-VI-3000
Requires: 2998-BIOTICCOUPLING · Precedes: 3000-EXECUTIVEMODE
Version: v1.0.0 · Date: 2026 · License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Slug: socioplastics-2999-sensorytrace
Zenodo record: https://zenodo.org/records/20012982
Abstract
Evidence becomes sensory when it is carried by acoustic and visual traces before it becomes formal argument. SensoryTrace defines perception as an evidential medium: the capacity of sound, image, rhythm, vibration, colour, shadow and spatial resonance to register conditions that discourse alone cannot fully stabilise.
The trace is not illustration; it is proof under sensory form. Against purely textual regimes of validation, SensoryTrace treats acoustic and visual materials as epistemic inscriptions. They do not decorate research. They carry pressure, atmosphere, violence, presence, absence and environmental alteration into the field of knowledge.
SensoryTrace extends Core VI by translating biotic coupling into perceptual evidence. Following BioticCoupling, it asks how environmental pressure becomes audible, visible and transmissible. The paper positions sensory recording as a research act through which the world leaves marks capable of becoming argument, archive and spatial diagnosis.
Keywords
SensoryTrace; Socioplastics; Anto Lloveras; LAPIEZA-LAB; Acoustic Evidence; Visual Evidence; Core VI; Core Decalogue VI; Tome III; Sensory Research; Perceptual Trace; Sonic Urbanism; Visual Archive; Field Recording; Atmospheric Evidence; Image as Proof; Sound as Inscription; Environmental Perception; CamelTag; SemanticHardening; SystemicLock.
Protocol Order
ATTUNE: register acoustic and visual signals before reducing them to textual interpretation.
CAPTURE: stabilise sensory events through image, sound, notation, recording or spatial description.
INSCRIBE: convert perception into retrievable evidence without neutralising its atmospheric force.
INTERPRET: read sensory traces as indicators of pressure, conflict, presence, absence or transformation.
TESTIFY: allow acoustic and visual evidence to operate as field argument within the research system.
Deployment Context
Field recording archive; visual research platform; urban soundwalk; exhibition documentation; environmental monitoring site; architectural atmosphere study; forensic aesthetic lab; sensory pedagogy framework.
Validation Metric
Capacity of sensory traces to operate as evidence: measured through retrievability, perceptual clarity, spatial correlation, acoustic or visual continuity, interpretive force, archival durability and capacity to support conceptual, urban or environmental diagnosis.
Core Statement
SensoryTrace converts perception into evidence. Sound and image are not secondary supplements to thought; they are inscriptions through which the field speaks. The sensory trace becomes knowledge when it can be captured, interpreted and returned as operative proof.
Genealogical Articulation
Walter Benjamin’s theory of technical reproducibility frames image and perception as historical forces. Michel Chion’s work on audiovisual perception clarifies the coupling of sound, image and meaning. R. Murray Schafer’s soundscape studies establish acoustic environments as cultural and ecological documents. Susan Sontag’s reflections on photography expose the evidential and ethical charge of visual capture. Eyal Weizman’s forensic aesthetics positions images, sounds and material traces as public evidence. SensoryTrace folds these genealogies into a Socioplastics protocol for acoustic and visual inscription.
References
Benjamin, W. (1935). The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
Chion, M. (1994). Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. New York: Columbia University Press.
Schafer, R. M. (1977). The Tuning of the World. New York: Knopf.
Sontag, S. (1977). On Photography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Weizman, E. (2017). Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability. New York: Zone Books.
Autonomy Clause
Node 2999 operates as an independent executable unit within Core Decalogue VI. Its protocol remains legible in isolation while translating the ecological cognition of Node 2998 into acoustic and visual evidence. It is archive-ready, exhibition-ready and interoperable within the wider Socioplastics system.
Canonical Citation
Lloveras, A. (2026). Socioplastics 2999 · SensoryTrace: Acoustic and Visual Evidence (v1.0.0). LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20012982.