Beyond Listening: Agency, Art and the Environment
International Symposium on Sonic Ecologies
21 to 25 November, 2023
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME)
The aim of the conference is to provide a transdisciplinary forum for the achievements in recent years and to foster further exchanges, communication and networking during the years to come. We would like to pay special attention to the region of Central Europe, but the geopolitical range of its subjects remains open to the broader world.
General Information about the Symposium
Programme: 21 to 25 November, 2023
Installations (ongoing)
Tuesday 21 November — Welcome
19:00–20:45 Listening session I
Wednesday 22 November — Presentations
10:00–11:00 Keynote: Budhaditya Chattopadhyay: Post-immersive Listening: Perspectives on the Mediation of Sonic Environments
11:00–11:30 break
11:30–12:00 Ida Hirsenfelder: Empathic Atmospheres. Sonic stories for a sensitive cohabitation
12:00–12:30 Piotr Kędziora Something fragile. Ambient listening & background musics qualia
12:30–13:00 Maja Bjelica: Experiencing Listening: Essay in Environmental Ethics of Care
13:00–14:00 lunch break
14:00-14:30 Kristine Diekman and Ben Pagac: Secret Reception
14:30–15:00 Liz K. Miller: Listening with Diagrams
15:00–15:30 Julius Fujak: Sonic Environments as the Mirror of Culture (As A Challenge for Artistic Testimony)
15:30–16:00 break
16:00–16:30 Polina Khatsenka: Elbe_Labe
16:30–19:30 break and dinner
19:00–20:45 Listening session II
Thursday 23 November — Presentations
10:00–11:00 Keynote: Gascia Ouzounian: Death Cities: Hearing Atmospheric and Spatial Violence
11:00–11:30 break
11:30–12:00 Martin Heslop: Sound Sanctuaries
12:00–12:30 Bálint Kiss: Sound, Noise, and Master Plans
12:30–13:00 Shluk: Noise Pollution and Sound Beyond Sound
13:00–14:00 lunch break
14:00–14:30 Jan Solčáni: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Sound Mapping: House of Culture Družba
14:30–15:00 Michal Kindernay & Magdalena Manderlová: Kozmic Sounds (Bird Reserve)
15:00–15:30 Sam Auinger and Peter Cusack: Braunschweig hört sich zu
15:30–16:00 break
16:00–16:30 Ari Koivumäki: Implementing Comfortable Soundscapes in Urban Spaces
16:30–17:00 Gabi Schaffner: Datscha Radio: Radio as Experimental Ethnography
17:00–19:30 break, dinner
19:00–20:45 Listening session III (8-channel)
Friday 24 November
Workshops
10:00-13:00Soundcamp collective: Streambox Workshop
for 12 participants. (Bring your own laptop and headphones).
10:00-12:00Henry McPherson: Towards Ecological Improvisation: Listening with the Body — 10-15 participants. See details.
Details
If participants would like to bring something to sound on/with (an instrument, an object, etc.) they are very welcome. Depending on space available, it might be nice to go outside, so I advise that people wear clothing they are comfortable in. Technically, it would be useful to have some chairs that people can sit on if needed.
13:00-15:30Melissa del Carmen Ernstberger & Luka Laval: Sonic Carthography workshop
10-12 participants. (Bring laptop or phone and headphones).
13:00–15:00 Jacek Smolicki: Soundwalking through time, space and technologies
15:00–16:00 Sam Auinger / Peter Cusack: Soundwalk
16:00–17:00 Workshop summaries for all workshops (Film Studio)
17:00–19:30 break, dinner
19:00–20:45 Listening session IV (cube 8-channel)
Saturday 25 November — Presentations / Closing Day
10:00–11:00 Keynote: Jacek Smolicki: A walk in the forest
11:00–11:30 break
11:30–12:00 Abby Lee Tee: Beavers in the City, Their Vocalizations and Human Noise
12:00–12:30 Georgios Varoutsos: Sounding Covid-19
12:30–13:00 Hannah Kemp-Welch: Listening Pedagogies for Community-based Art
13:00–14:00 break
14:00-14:30 Hanna Grześkiewicz: Sounding Borderlessness in the Białowieża Forest
14:30–15:00 Guillaume Loizillon: Territories
15:00–15:30 Ramon De Marco: Klangweg Toggenburg
15:30–16:00 Eric Leonardson: Summary of 2023 WFAE Conference
16:00–17:00 Round table: How to Activate Ecology of Sound Beyond Listening?
- Grant Smith, Peter Cusack, Ida Hirsenfelder, Mary Edwards, Csaba Hajnóczy, Hanna Kemp-Welch, Eric Leonardson, Jacek Smolicki, Csaba Hajnóczy, Ramon De Marco, and others..moderated by Miloš Vojtěchovský
Support
The project is supported by the Visegrad Fund
Partners
Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Art and Design
Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Wrocław, The Soundscape Research Studio
Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Media Institute
