John Grzinich

AudioSwarm

Listening walk

This work invites humans to pay tribute to the oldest sounding beings on Earth. It asks how we might embody the sonic and social character of insects by enacting an expressive swarm resonating with the sounds of katydids, cicadas and grasshoppers, encouraging attentive and shared listening during their seasonal cycles.

AudioSwarm: Insectus is an original sound composition based on insect field recordings, designed to be performed collectively. Conceived as a participatory performative spatial diffusion, the work combines social listening and movement, enabling all participants to co-create a coherent sounding body. Everyone is warmly invited to join the swarm.

Matej Tomažin

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Grzinich

An audio-visual artist based in Estonia. His work integrates sound, moving images and site-specific installations to explore perceptions of sound and space, seeking resonances between people and places. His recent performative and sound works question anthropocentric worldviews through expanded listening practices and participatory engagement.

COLOPHON

Artist: John Grzinich
Photo: Matej Tomažin

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no signal

A curatorial performance uses sound, poetry and text-scores to rethink “no signal” as an opening for hearing silence and the silenced differently.

Katja Hrobat Virloget

Ethnography of Silence(s)

Drawing on ethnographic research into exodus, memory and belief, the lecture examines silence through power, trauma, resistance and collective identity.

Janez Križaj

The Culture of Listening

A conceptual walk from physics and psychoacoustics to sound ecology addresses noise, the right to silence and the social responsibility of listening.

Gregor Pompe

The Slovenian Reception of John Cage – Meaningful Silence

The lecture traces the ambivalent reception of John Cage in post-war Slovenian music and his resonance in alternative and interdisciplinary practices.

Rajko Muršič

Sounding in Silence: Non-verbal Sound Games in the Rhythm of Opposites and Contradictions

A peripatetic lecture explores intentionality, rhythm and the paradox of experiencing sound and silence while walking.

Juan José López Díez,Rok Šturm

Beyond the Audible

A performative lecture exploring vibroscapes, ecotremology and modes of listening beyond audible sound.

Maja Bjelica

Walking-with the Saltworks

Salt-making reveals human–element cohabitation through walking, listening and crystallisation.

Bálint János Kiss

Onomatopoeia and the Post-Industrial Soundscape

A lecture examining onomatopoeia and linguistic adaptations within the contemporary post-industrial soundscape.

Darko Fritz

H2O Interface

Water as an active agent reveals entangled relations between human and non-human worlds.

Mersid Ramičević

A Venture into the Field as a Medium

Abandoned terrain reveals a habitat beyond human measures, through listening and walking without intent.