Audible 3’s music is performance-based. Specific sounds and music-making processes are designed and prepared for each concert. This includes making a creative response to the physical environment of each performance, which has lead to an installation-type approach. The group use many methods: recognisably “interactive” improvising; “re-mixes” of a source material from a gallery-based sound installation; a piece where the entire sound is reprocessed by customised digital effects. Their more pulse-based music explores the possibilities of ambiguity and fragmentation in rhythm, as well as its potential to move sounds into uncharted terrain. Layering sounds of machine, human and natural origins leads to a more “environmental” impression. Their basic intention is to create a played music with minimal boundaries, and to involve listeners on that level.

The members of Audible 3 each have extensive backgrounds in experimental and improvised music. When the group formed in 1999 they were all playing electronic instruments - exploring a broad palette of sound materials and approaches to music, with drum machine, sampler and synthesiser.