01 / WORKS
A work
that behaves.
Music first. An Edition carries its material, rules, time and ownership into the Player.
IFAH / AN INSTRUMENT COMPANY
Some experiences
deserve their own
instrument.
IFAH builds instruments for authored experience:
works, methods and practices whose rules
are part of the work.
A FORM BEFORE ITS PURPOSERESTING
The form responds according to its own rules.
SOUND IS WHERE WE BEGAN.THE FORM CHANGES THE BEHAVIOR
01THE THESIS
Authorship extends
from content
into behavior.
Content tells you what was made.
An IFAH instrument specifies how it behaves.
RULESSTATETIMEPERMISSIONSPROVENANCEOWNERSHIP
The rules are not instructions around the work.
They belong to the work itself.
An IFAH instrument is a bounded authored object: it carries its material, rules, state and rights wherever it is experienced.
THE SAME FORMRESTING
02ONE GRAMMAR
The domain changes.
The grammar survives.
Sound is where we began. The domain can change while the underlying grammar remains: material, rules, state, time, permissions and provenance.
A work
02 / METHODS
A method that
keeps working.
A named methodology becomes an instrument people return to after the room. BECOMING is the first.
03 / PRACTICES
Some instruments
do not exist yet.
IFAH develops the instrument around a method, work or practice that already has its own logic.
03THE FORMAT
EDITIONS
A work,
given a life
of its own.
A work can carry rules,
memory, time and ownership.
Today, .soma Editions carry authored acoustic works into the Player. The format is being extended to carry richer rules, state, rights and ownership.
.SOMA / SAMPLE EDITION02
NIGHT PRACTICE
Evening
Descent
22 MIN / AUTHORED ACOUSTIC WORK
04ONE CONTINUITY
Different instruments.
The same thread.
A structure takes shape.
05IMPLEMENTED PRINCIPLES
Your work
should remain yours.
Concrete decisions about custody,
surveillance and data flow.
- LOCAL CUSTODY
- Studio documents and recordings stay on the maker’s machine.
- NO ADVERTISING SURVEILLANCE
- No advertising trackers or analytics run inside the instruments.
- DISCLOSED CONNECTIONS
- Licensing, checkout and inquiry state what leaves the device.
Implementation details and limits are documented.
06THREE DOORS
Where will you enter?
01 / USE AN INSTRUMENT
Begin with
what exists.
Studio · €129 one-time
Player · Free
02 / GIVE SOMETHING A FORM
Bring something
of your own.
An instrument around your method, practice or work.
03 / WORK WITH IFAH
Open a
conversation.
Research, institutions, partnerships
and investment.