Industry Standard

SOUND AS WITNESS. MUSIC AS RESISTANCE


A sonic collaboration by Gemunu de Silva of Tracks Investigations and Gnostic Front

 

Industry Standard is a first-of-its-kind sonic art album that documents animal exploitation through sound rather than imagery. Built from hundreds of hours of covert recordings captured exclusively by Gemunu de Silva and Tracks Investigations, it offers an emotionally charged and immersive listening experience rooted in decades of frontline investigative work.

The album exposes the hidden machinery of animal industries: the systems behind meat, fur, animal testing, and the live animal trade. It confronts the concept of the “industry standard” -where living beings are reduced to standardised units of production.  These recordings were made not in studios, but inside factory farms, slaughterhouses, fur farms, testing labs, and markets around the world. They capture the bleats, cries, hums, slams and silences of places never meant to be heard.

Reshaped and composed by Canadian experimental artist Gnostic Front, these sounds are transformed into atmospheric pieces that are as listenable as they are haunting. The result is a rare fusion of investigative truth and sonic art.

Industry Standard invites audiences to slow down and become ear-witnesses. It is a tool for empathy, exposure and reflection, and can be used for outreach, education, exhibition and activism.

Format

  • Limited edition 12” coloured vinyl

  • Includes an 8-page full-colour insert with investigative photography and track context

  • Digital release to follow on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music and more

 

Thanks & Partners

This project, and the 300+ investigations behind it, would not have been possible without the collaboration and trust of more than 40 animal advocacy organisations around the world.

We would like to thank all our partners, past and present, who have supported, commissioned, and shared our work.

Tracks has conducted investigations for:

A Promise to Animals, Animals Angels, Animals Angels USA, Animals Australia, Animal Equality, Animal Protection Agency, Animal Welfare Foundation, Born Free, Brooke, BUAV, CAPS, Cats Protection, Canadian Horse Defence, Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), Change for Animals Foundation, Cruelty Free International, Dogs Trust, Eurogroup for Animals, Equine Rescue France, Four Paws, Franz Weber Foundation, Forsøgsdyrenes Værn, GAIA, Greenpeace, Hunt Investigation Team, Humane Society International, IFAW, International Animal Rescue, Marchig Trust, Mercy for Animals, One Voice, PETA, Princess Alia Foundation, Respect for Animals, Sinergia Animal, Surfers Against Sewage, Tierschutzbund Zürich, Varkens in Nood, World Animal Protection (WAP), WAP Canada and WAP Australia 

We are grateful for their trust in our work and for their shared commitment to exposing cruelty and creating change.

  

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‘Since I became a vegan in 1987, I’ve been consistently amazed at how animal rights activists use their creativity to draw attention to the horrific realities of animal exploitation.  This is a challenging record, but the hardest truths are never easy.’

-moby

“A groundbreaking sonic art album that exposes global animal exploitation through sound. …An artistic and an advocacy achievement.”
Vegan FTA

”Part music, part journalism, part art, the record captures the industrial soundscape of animal exploitation in a way that no one has ever done before…. It’s not just an album — it’s evidence. And once you hear it, you can’t unhear it.”

Species Unite

”Covert field recordings from within the animal industry, transformed into a dark industrial soundwork—where hidden suffering, machinery, and silence collide. These sounds emerge from hidden places, presenting work that refuses to look away”

Robin Rimbaud - Scanner

‘Industry Standard’ is as musically inventive, startling and captivating as it is disturbing …. what you hear could almost be soothing ambient music if it weren’t so utterly hellish…..We’re reminded at times of Hafler Trio and German musique concrète experimenters P16 D4 and, not least, Coil.”

NIGHTSHIFT Oxford’s Music Magazine