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Life & fun · August 24, 2026

IFAH

Instruments for composing and experiencing sound as a space

What it does

IFAH is a new family of instruments built around a simple idea: sound can be composed as an environment. Create, preserve and replay reproducible acoustic fields for listening, practice, performance and research. IFAH combines offline-first instruments, sealed acoustic experiences and new interfaces for interacting with sound from carefully composed fields to playing music with your hands.

IFAH develops instruments for composing, experiencing and examining reproducible acoustic environments across listening, practice, research and performance.

IFAH creates reproducible acoustic environments that can be composed, preserved and replayed — for listening, practice, care, research and performance. Open .soma Editions: reproducible acoustic environments composed for listening, practice and exploration. On first launch, Windows may ask you to confirm opening the app. Shape sound, space and time into reproducible acoustic environments — then seal them as .somafrom ifahinstruments.com

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