About Our Logo

Before we see the world, we hear it.

The German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk noted that the ear is the first sense organ to develop in utero. Before we become an 'I,' we are first with. We are immersed in sound and attuned to a world through the rhythm of our mother's heartbeat, and the melody of her voice. Held in this resonance, sound becomes the medium through which withness is formed.

Our logo begins here.

The figure in our logo holds a vinyl record, her head a phonograph horn open to the world. This horn functions as both receiver and transmitter, embodying music's essential nature: we take in the world's sounds and transform them into expression.

She stands in a threshold, framed by an arch of stars. Not isolated but poised between states. Between listening and creating. Between the material and the cosmic. Between solitude and relation. Unlike the eye, which can close itself to the world, the ear remains open. The horn, like the ear, cannot shut. It receives. It resonates. It reminds us that before the “I,” there was only relation, a being-with, attuned through sound.

The record she holds is both the fruit of labor and the promise of relation. It is a form born of context, time, and intention, carrying the expressive knowledge that only music can bear. Through the music, we return to the living middle: the space between technical precision and expressive form, where understanding and obligation are held in resonance. 

Our logo was designed by Elena Cronin, who brought the care, attention, and artistic intuition needed to translate these principles into visual form.