Critical Approaches to Soundwalking
PAST EVENTS
28. Sep. 2023
CukrarnaThe TO)pot festival opens its discursive programme dedicated to soundwalking and the connections between walking, listening and critical thinking. The programme features presentations by Elena Biserna, Ida Hiršenfelder and Jacek Smolicki, followed by a discussion with invited artists and the audience.
Jacek Smolicki presents his book Soundwalking: Through Time, Space, and Technologies (Routledge, 2023) through a sound-based presentation. The publication brings together contemporary scholars, artists and thinkers and represents one of the first comprehensive studies of soundwalking, addressing environmental, ethical, social and technological concerns.
Elena Biserna proposes an itinerary through her edited volume Going Out. Walking, Listening, Soundmaking (umland, 2022), tracing interdisciplinary experiments at the intersection of walking, listening and soundmaking, and their resonance with contemporary critical spatial thinking.
In her text Exercises in Listening to the Inaudible (Acoustic Commons, Cona, 2022), Ida Hiršenfelder reflects on the notion of location, sonority and the meaning of what is heard, examining artistic approaches to listening through conversations with artists.
Blaž Gutman (MGML)
The TO)pot festival opens its discursive programme dedicated to soundwalking and the connections between walking, listening and critical thinking. The programme features presentations by Elena Biserna, Ida Hiršenfelder and Jacek Smolicki, followed by a discussion with invited artists and the audience.
Jacek Smolicki presents his book Soundwalking: Through Time, Space, and Technologies (Routledge, 2023) through a sound-based presentation. The publication brings together contemporary scholars, artists and thinkers and represents one of the first comprehensive studies of soundwalking, addressing environmental, ethical, social and technological concerns.
Elena Biserna proposes an itinerary through her edited volume Going Out. Walking, Listening, Soundmaking (umland, 2022), tracing interdisciplinary experiments at the intersection of walking, listening and soundmaking, and their resonance with contemporary critical spatial thinking.
In her text Exercises in Listening to the Inaudible (Acoustic Commons, Cona, 2022), Ida Hiršenfelder reflects on the notion of location, sonority and the meaning of what is heard, examining artistic approaches to listening through conversations with artists.
Independent researcher and curator. She writes, lectures, teaches, facilitates workshops and collective projects, curates and occasionally performs. Her interests focus on listening and situated art practices related to urban dynamics, socio-cultural processes and the public and political sphere.
Sound artist and archivist. Her work explores bioacoustics, experimental music and sound spatialisation, creating immersive soundscapes using analogue electronics, DIY and modular synthesis, field recordings and digital manipulation.
Interdisciplinary artist, researcher, designer and educator. His practice investigates critical, existential and technological dimensions of listening, recording and archiving practices in human and more-than-human contexts.
Authors: Elena Biserna, beepblip [Ida Hiršenfelder], Jacek Smolicki
Photo: Blaž Gutman (MGML)